Today, holy sites in Jerusalem are open once again after being largely closed for 40 days during the war with Iran.

Last night, we reported on Israeli families who marked Passover under threat by Iran and Hezbollah.

Tonight, producer Carl Bostic and our Nick Schifrin visit Palestinian Christians who weren't able to access their holiest sites during their holiest days.

In Jerusalem's old city during Holy Week, the streets should have been packed with pilgrims.

But stone passageways worn smooth through centuries by the faithful echoed with the silence of absence.

And on Good Friday, the path that marks Jesus' final steps via De La Rosa, the way of the

cross, stood mostly empty, a casualty of war.

What a sad day today for Jerusalem.

The Israeli authority forbid us to have the way of the cross and to pray in the station of cross.

Jesus put his hand while he was carrying the cross.

Rafi Gattas is an official at the Catholic St. James Church, but also works as a tour guide.

The Iran war threatened him and this ancient city's holiest shrines.

Shrapnel from an Iranian missile landed right next to the old city walls, other pieces

next to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the site of Christ's resurrection, and outside the

nearby Alaksa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site.

And so Israeli police restricted who could access the old city and capped the number of people

who could come to worship.

Two thousand years ago, Jesus on this same day was carrying his cross, walking here

through these streets of the old city of Jerusalem, the holy city, carrying the cross

and walking alone.

And today we are doing the same.

A few of the faithful were allowed carrying crosses, whispering prayers.

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