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The last historic Christian village in the Holy Land, threatened with annexation by the Jewish state of Israel | ZENIT - English
The risk is not only that Christians will leave, but that one day they will be remembered as having once been there
MARZO 16, 2026 10:31ZENIT STAFF
The last historic Christian village in the Holy Land, threatened with annexation by the Jewish state of Israel | ZENIT - English
ZENIT News / Rome, 03.16.2026).- In the hills east of Ramallah, the village of Taybeh has long stood as a quiet anomaly: the only entirely Christian community left in the West Bank. Today, its 1,400 residents find themselves at the intersection of geopolitics, demographic decline and a mounting sense that their presence may be slipping into history. What is unfolding in Taybeh is not an isolated episode but a concentrated expression of wider transformations across the Palestinian territories. Since early February 2026, a decision by Israeli authorities to deepen administrative and military control over the West Bank has altered the terrain in ways local clergy describe as unprecedented in decades. For many observers on the ground, it marks a structural shift—one that some interpret as a step toward de facto annexation.
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