‘On #Bethlehem's Manger Square, Christmas decorations & pilgrims are…absent for a 2nd wartime festive season in the Israeli-occupied #WestBank city... "Normally…you would find 3,000 or 4,000 people inside the church,"... Violence across the…West Bank has surged since the war in #Gaza…last year, but Bethlehem has remained largely quiet... Foreign tourists…stopped coming due to the war… "Christians in Ramallah can't come because there are checkpoints…”’ | Al-Monitor https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/12/wartime-bethlehem-christmas-joy-hard-find