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## Video: Bethlehem Church Cancels Christmas Celebrations in Solidarity With Gaza

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_Published 2023-12-05. The Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem has made significant changes to its traditional Christmas celebrations due to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas._


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## Transcript

This year Christmas celebrations are canceled in Bethlehem. And for obvious reasons. We thought of what does meaning of Christmas for us as Palestinians. And what message do we want to send to the word about the meaning of Christmas today? So we came up with this idea of a Manger in the midst of terrible resembling a destroyed house and Lester and the Child Jesus as a child was under the problem. We've seen so many images of children being pulled out of the rubble and to ask this is a message that Jesus identifies without suffering. He's in solidarity with those who are oppressed in solidarity with those suffering.

So it's a message of comfort and hope to us that it's also a message to the world that this is what Christmas looks like in Bethlehem with this is what Christmas looks like in Palestine without your patient with destruction with the bombardment of children. Why the world is celebrating our children are under the world problem that while the world is celebrating. Our families are displaced and their homes are destroyed So This Is Christmas Plus in Palestine.

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