The West Bank metropolis of Bethlehem has stripped all decorations celebrating Christmas from the place revered because the birthplace of Jesus Christ.
“Bethlehem Municipality crews announced the dismantling of Christmas decorations installed several years ago in the city’s neighborhoods and removing all festive appearances in honor of the martyrs and in solidarity with our people in Gaza,” the municipality wrote on Facebook.
باشرت طواقم بلدية بيت لحم بفك زينة عيد الميلاد المثبتة منذ عدة سنوات في أحياء المدينة وإزالة كافة مظاهر الاحتفال حداداً على أرواح الشهداء وتضامناً مع أهلنا في غزة الأبية.
Posted by Bethlehem Municipality – بلدية بيت لحم on Tuesday, November 14, 2023
The Daily Telegraph reports a spokesman declared, “The reason is the general situation in Palestine; people are not really into any celebration, they are sad, angry and upset; our people in Gaza are being massacred and killed in cold blood.”
“Therefore, it’s not applicable in any respect to have such festivities whereas there’s a bloodbath occurring in Gaza and assaults within the West Bank.
“This yr the state of affairs in Bethlehem is unprecedented and the temper and vibes are extraordinarily unhappy, and that’s precisely what the world ought to see, and notice that these usually are not regular circumstances.
“Bethlehem should send out its own message of condolence and mourning.”
File/People collect in Manger Square, adjoining to the Church of the Nativity, historically believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, within the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Some prayers and non secular ceremonies will nonetheless be allowed to happen, LBC reported, nonetheless the standard Christmas tree and festive decorations in Manger Square, which has seen Christmas decorations ever since fashionable celebrations of the season started, have been cleared.
This is just not the primary time Bethlehem has been used as a web site of protest at Christmas.
In 2017 the Palestinian Authority responded to President Donald Trump’s official recognition of Jerusalem because the capital of Israel with fiery denunciations and turning off the lights on Christmas timber.
Bethlehem has a inhabitants of round 25,000 individuals however attracts hundreds of vacationers from the world over within the run as much as Christmas, together with Christians who go on a pilgrimage to Manger Square, as Breitbart News reported.
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