For a second year running, there is no Christmas cheer in Bethlehem. Tourists are shunning the city, and many residents are seeking a way out as the war in Gaza grinds on. Bethlehem’s Manger ...

Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem were canceled amid the Israel-Hamas war. Bethlehem is home to the Church of the Nativity, believed to be the birthplace of Jesus. Christmas, normally the West ...

including during Israel’s 2002 reoccupation of the West Bank when tanks rumbled through Bethlehem’s alleys, part of a crackdown on Palestinian militants involved in attacks on Israelis.