Deserted streets and shuttered stores as Israel-Hamas war looms over Bethlehem at Christmas
BETHLEHEM — The mood was somber, streets were deserted and stores were shuttered on Christmas Eve in Bethlehem, the Israeli-occupied West Bank city where Christian tradition says Jesus was born in a stable 2,000 years ago. Set amid rubble and barbed wire, a striking Nativity scene was placed in…
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