Christmas marks the birth of Jesus of Nazareth over 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem, Palestine, in what is now the Israeli Occupied West Bank. The occasion is both solemn and ...

Kaffiyeh-clad baby Jesus is showing up in manger scenes all ... symbolizing the mass destruction in Gaza and the gulf between the coming birthday of the Prince of Peace and the lack thereof.

The city of Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, will not have the usual ...

the birth of Jesus Christ. As the war between Israel and Hamas rages around 100km (60 miles) away in Gaza –leaving thousands of Palestinians dead and nearly two million displaced and trapped in ...

The display features a baby Jesus, lying on a manger lined with the ... people of Ukraine and cited ‘inhumane attacks’ in Gaza. In the Middle East conflict, he has tended to take a balanced ...

Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in ...

A noticeable addition this year saw the seminal scene's baby Jesus draped in a keffiyeh ... he said may be a 'genocide' occurring in the Gaza Strip. That came in response to repeated Israeli ...

The town relies heavily on Christmas tourism. The economy in the West Bank already was reeling because of restrictions placed on laborers preventing them from entering Israel during the war.