Bethlehem Resembles A Ghost Town, Christmas Celebrations Canceled Amid War In Gaza

He said he always comes to Bethlehem to mark Christmas, but this year was especially sobering, as he gazed at a nativity scene in Manger Square with a baby Jesus wrapped in a white shroud, reminiscent of the hundreds of children killed in the fighting in Gaza. Barbed wire surrounded the scene, the grey rubble reflecting none of the joyous lights and bursts of color that normally fill the square during the Christmas season. “We can’t justify putting out a tree and celebrating as normal, when some people (in Gaza)...