Gaza Strip



The sanitised version of nativity story rings increasingly hollow

Last Christmas, near the site of the original nativity in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, the Lutheran Church placed the baby in a manger of rubble and destruction to reflect the reality of children being born and living in Palestine today

























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