{"id":158326,"date":"2026-04-06T08:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158326\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:53:10","slug":"israeli-forces-close-several-entrances-to-bethlehem-middle-east-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158326\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli forces close several entrances to Bethlehem \u2013 Middle East Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli occupation forces closed several entrances to Bethlehem governorate in the southern West Bank on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The closures affected the Al-Sadr, Al-Iskanat and Nassar entrances in Beit Jala to the west, as well as the eastern entrance to the town of Al-Khader to the south.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem has seen repeated closures of its main access points by Israeli forces, including the installation of military checkpoints and the blocking of main and secondary roads.<\/p>\n<p>These measures restrict the movement of Palestinians and hinder their ability to travel, affecting daily life and economic activity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20260403-israel-continues-to-bar-muslims-from-friday-prayers-at-al-aqsa-mosque\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel continues to bar Muslims from Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli occupation forces closed several entrances to Bethlehem governorate in the southern West Bank on Sunday evening. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-158326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}