{"id":40839,"date":"2025-11-21T17:47:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40839\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:47:24","slug":"settlers-set-up-homes-in-new-bethlehem-outpost-to-deepen-israeli-hold-over-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40839\/","title":{"rendered":"Settlers set up homes in new Bethlehem outpost to &#8216;deepen Israeli hold&#8217; over\u00a0Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli media on Friday reported that settler groups placed the &#8220;first temporary homes&#8221; in a new settlement established on Wednesday night by illegally grabbing Palestinian land\u00a0in the Gush Etzion area near the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The move was publicly announced Thursday by council head Yaron Rosenthal, who made no attempt to obscure the symbolism or intent, Israel Today reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The news website quoted\u00a0Rosenthal\u00a0declaring: &#8220;The return to the ancestral city of King David and Rachel as a national and spiritual triumph.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report said that the &#8220;new village&#8221; near Bethlehem deepens Israeli hold over the strategic corridor connecting Gush Etzion to Jerusalem.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli media on Friday reported that settler groups placed the &#8220;first temporary homes&#8221; in a new settlement established&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-40839","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\/40839","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=40839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}