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Structures built by the Nabateans more than two millennia ago, like this remnant at Mada’in Salih, Saudi Arabia, rival those of ancient Rome and Greece.
Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: Walking to the Holy Land
An Israeli flag on the surrounding wall of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Migdalim near the Palestinian town of Nablus, Oct. 25, 2021.
Israel-Hamas war
US places rare visa travel restrictions on Israeli settlers implicated in West Bank violence
A video still from an athletic center in Ramallah, in the West Bank, where hundreds of Palestinian workers from the Gaza Strip are stranded.
Israel-Hamas war
For Palestinians, the fear of displacement cuts deep
Palestinian protesters fly Palestinian flags and flags of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, DFLP, during clashes with Israeli soldiers at the entrance the Jewish settlement of Beit El, background near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Conflict & Justice
The politics of Ireland’s enduring support for Palestinians
Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda speaks at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, in this this Aug. 28, 2018, file photo.
Justice
Israel has a stake in Biden administration’s decision to lift ICC sanctions
A view of Shuafat refugee camp is seen behind section of Israel's separation barrier in Jerusalem, June 19, 2020.
Why a leading Israeli rights group is calling Israel an ‘apartheid’ state
signing ceremony
Global Politics
Palestinians worry about the impact of the Abraham Accords. They say it’s time to elect new leaders.
A photo of the West Bank.
Borders
Former US ambassador: Israel would be ‘making itself an international outlaw’ with West Bank annexation
Palestinian residents of the village of Fasayil in the Jordan Valley sit together for an afternoon tea break.
Global Politics
Israeli plans for annexation weigh heavily on Jordan Valley residents
Mike Pompeo in a suit and face mask in front of a plane and the US and Israeli flags
Top of The World
Pompeo visits Israel; Europe wants a summer travel season; Lebanon counters second virus wave
Two visitors are shown standing a one taking a cell phone photo of the Church of the Nativity with bright white light shining from the windows above.
Religion
Jesus’ Bethlehem birthplace gets a makeover. But will it boost tourism? 
Children play with a wheelbarrow.
Politics
Legal recognition of West Bank settlements could ‘kill off’ hope of two-state solution, says former US ambassador
A woman stands on the porch of a house
Conflict & Justice
Is Airbnb’s no-profit return to the West Bank ‘whitewashing’ human rights violations?
The white gated entrance to the Am'ari camp.
Global Politics
US cuts funds to Palestinian refugees, leaving many without essential services
A woman is shown talking on the phone next to a red wall and a large sculpture of the Airbnb logo at the company's headquarters in San Francisco, California.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Airbnb to remove listings in Israel’s West Bank settlements
a bedouin village in israel
Conflict
Protesters arrive at Bedouin village as Israeli demolition looms
A Palestinian woman sits next to bags of flour
UN agency chief says Palestinian refugees can’t ‘simply be wished away’
A Palestinian worker carries a bag containing items sent by mail
Eight years late, 10 tons of mail finally makes it to the West Bank
A room of people seated at a table listen to a speaker. A man stands at a podium at the front, with his back to the camera.
Conflict
Can Toastmasters Ramallah stay politics-free?
Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi enters a military courtroom escorted by Israeli security personnel at Ofer Prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Jan. 15, 2018.
Conflict
Palestinian teen — made famous for slapping Israeli soldiers on video — has been ordered held until end of trial
Yasmeen Mjalli
Arts
She started #NotYourHabibti to shine a light on sexual harassment in the Palestinian territories
palestinian
Conflict
Among young Palestinians, growing alienation from political leaders
Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi enters a military courtroom escorted by Israeli security personnel at Ofer Prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Jan. 15, 2018.
Conflict
Israeli court detains Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi
16-year-old Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi enters a military courtroom escorted by Israeli Prison Service personnel.
Justice
Ahed Tamimi: A new symbol of Palestinian resistance?
After her third daughter was born, Faten decided to make sure that her fourth child would be a boy. She says she has a career and a family to take care of. She can't keep getting pregnant over and over again.
Medicine
An Israeli woman traveled to the West Bank so she could be sure she’d have a boy
Israeli soldiers stand guard during the demolition of the family house of Palestinian assailant Omar Alabed
Conflict
Israel wants to increase its practice of demolishing the homes of Palestinian involved in fatal attacks
Muna Assaf has been asking her reporters to talk with people on the street about catcalling. She men do it because they think they have the authority to do it.
Lifestyle
A Palestinian radio station in the West Bank tackles catcalling, divorce and sex
Palestinian Americans wary of statehood bid
Baha Nababta in the Shuafat refugee camp in November 2014. He devoted his life to improving the camp before he was shot to death this year.
Conflict
Baha Nababta wanted to live in a place where the roads were paved and the trash picked up. Then he was murdered.
Novelist Ayelet Waldman and a Palestinian man in Hebron. “For most of my life, I loved Israel, I longed for Israel, I planned to live in Israel,” she says.
Books
Novelist Ayelet Waldman is sending writers to the West Bank to document what they see, 50 years into occupation
A mosque attendant lowers a candelabra into a narrow shaft on the Muslim side of the shrine to an underground cave. It's revered as the place where Muslims and Jews believe Ibrahim, or Abraham, is buried.
Belief
In Hebron, Israelis and Palestinians share a holy site … begrudgingly
Ahmed Yousef, 25, an editor at Quds News Network, at a sweet shop in Ramallah. A photo of the Dome of the Rock, a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem, is on the wall. Tensions around the site helped spark the recent violence between Israelis and Palestinians
Conflict
As violence surges between Israelis and Palestinians, Facebook pages fan the flames with graphic images
A man walks past a burning building during rioting after a grand jury returned no indictment in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Conflict
A Middle East correspondent sees familiar clashes unfold in Ferguson
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the media in Jerusalem following a terrorist attack on a West Jerusalem synagogue on November 18, 2014.
Conflict
Palestinians are anxious as Israel vows a ‘strong response’ to the Jerusalem attack
A sign at the entrance to Giv’at Oz veGa’on, a new outpost established by Israeli settlers in the West Bank in the name of three teenagers killed in June.
Conflict
Jewish settlers establish a new West Bank outpost in the name of the murdered Israeli teens
Conflict
As Gaza burns, some West Bankers are calling for a third intifada
Palestinians sit outside their house that is located opposite to the house of top Hamas political leader Mahmoud Zahar which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City
Conflict & Justice
How did the Gaza Strip become one of the most hopeless places on Earth?
Palestinians sit outside their house that is located opposite to the house of top Hamas political leader Mahmoud Zahar which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City
Conflict & Justice
How did the Gaza Strip become one of the most hopeless places on Earth?
Tensions are high in the capital after 16-year-old Muhammed Abu Khdeir was was killed in an apparent revenge killing for three slain Jewish teens. Police watch as residents of the east Jerusalem neighborhood Shuafat set dumpsters on fire, throw rocks and
Conflict & Justice
Israel is hunting Hamas members, but the family of a suspected killer says he’s not one of them
Tensions are high in the capital after 16-year-old Muhammed Abu Khdeir was was killed in an apparent revenge killing for three slain Jewish teens. Police watch as residents of the east Jerusalem neighborhood Shuafat set dumpsters on fire, throw rocks and
Conflict & Justice
Israel is hunting Hamas members, but the family of a suspected killer says he’s not one of them
Suha, mother of 16 year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair, shows a picture of her son on her mobile phone at their home in Shuafat, an Arab suburb of Jerusalem. News of the discovery of Mohammed's body sparked clashes on Wednesday between rock-throwing Palestinian
Conflict & Justice
Is it time to worry about Israeli-Palestinian violence spinning out of control?
Israel’s largest bus company plastered buses with big ads featuring the #BringBackOurBoys slogan.
Conflict & Justice
Bring back our boys, whoever they are
Global Politics
Diplomats try to keep mideast peace talks alive
Esmat Mansour, convicted by Israel for murder and jailed for 22 years, with his ninth grade Hebrew students.
Development & Education
A Palestinian convicted of murdering an Israeli now teaches Hebrew — and tolerance
Esmat Mansour, convicted by Israel for murder and jailed for 22 years, with his ninth grade Hebrew students.
Development & Education
A Palestinian convicted of murdering an Israeli now teaches Hebrew — and tolerance
Conflict & Justice
In the West Bank, Israeli and Palestinian kids who throw stones face unequal justice
Conflict & Justice
In the West Bank, Israeli and Palestinian kids who throw stones face unequal justice
An Israeli settler tried to steal this mule from the Palestinian village of Luban.
Conflict & Justice
When Israeli settlers attack and steal, Palestinians now have a strategy
An Israeli settler tried to steal this mule from the Palestinian village of Luban.
Conflict & Justice
When Israeli settlers attack and steal, Palestinians now have a strategy
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (center) addresses the crowd of Israelis.
Global Politics
Here’s what happened when Israeli students had a rare chance to visit, and question, the Palestinian president
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath during the funeral service for Ariel Sharon near Sycamore Farm, Sharon's residence in southern Israel, on January 13, 2014.
Global Politics
Ariel Sharon fought for the security of his people, even when that meant giving up land
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel "The Bulldozer" Sharon in Jerusalem August 9, 2005.
Global Politics
Controversial Israeli leader and former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died
An Israeli and Palestinian couple hold hands. They've asked to remain anonymous.
Lifestyle & Belief
This Israeli-Palestinian love story broke so many rules
Duo Amal
Arts, Culture & Media
Dueling pianists make peace in the Middle East
Asad Ewaiwi, a Palestinian political activist and university professor of political science.
Global Politics
Of course we’re being spied on by our own government!
A parade during the introductory ceremonies of the 4th International Conference of the Forum for Cities in Transition.
Conflict & Justice
Peacemakers gather under heavy guard to confront Nigeria’s Christian-Muslim violence
Global Politics
Palestinian family discusses relatives killed in Syrian chemical weapons attack
Conflict & Justice
Syrian Conflict: This is What it’s Like to Lose Family Members to Chemical Warfare
Israeli-Palestinian Negotiating Table: Is There Really a Chance for Peace?
Arts, Culture & Media
Israeli-born Ethiopian Jew embraces ancestry in her music