Ruba Mahdi is a nurse at a Jerusalem hospital who specializes in dialysis treatment, but it's the ride to work before she can even think about what the day will bring at the hospital that makes her more anxious, what it will be like this morning at the checkpoint into Israel. Maher Canawati, Mayor of Bethlehem, West Bank: I tell you, before the war, we had approximately 2.5 million visitors and pilgrims coming and coming through the Church of the Nativity. The superior of the Armenian church descends the staircase to the grotto, where Jesus was born to conduct a ceremony for his birth.
Author: Karl Bostic, Thomas Dallal
Published at: 2025-12-24 23:40:39
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