Residents of Sebastia say heritage project is pretext for massive land grab and expansion of Jewish settlements The Byzantine-era church lies half hidden in the shade. Roman columns rise from among ...

On March 6, Ayman Shaer found himself lying on the ground in the ancient square of Sebastia, bleeding and in unbearable pain. “The soldiers were shooting people next to the ruins, and one of the ...

A new archaeological dig at the ancient site of Sebastia in the West Bank was inaugurated on Monday in the presence of several government officials. Sebastia – known in Hebrew by its biblical name, ...

On July 2, Khaled Azem was pulled from his car at a checkpoint in the northern occupied West Bank, he tells Al Jazeera. Israeli soldiers beat and humiliated him, forcing him to say: “I love Israel”, ...