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Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The city of Bethlehem and the Israeli-occupied

West Bank is the biblical birthplace of Jesus. Christmas was canceled last year because of the war in Gaza

there, but it will be celebrated this year. As M.Pior's Emily Fang reports from Bethlehem,

the wood is somber. The West Bank's economy has shrunk by about a fifth this year, mostly because

Israel froze work permits for tens of thousands of Palestinians living here. And both Christian

and Muslim residents of Bethlehem,

most of whom are Palestinian, say they cannot fully celebrate Christmas while the war in Gaza is

ongoing, and at least 45,000 Palestinians there have been killed. Caroline Elliott team lives

nearby Bethlehem and baits a whore, what's called Shepherds Field, because in the Bible,

shepherds there receive news of Jesus Christ's birth.

She says people used to come here and pray during the holidays.

Now there is no one.

It is an area of ghosts.

Emily Fang and Pieran News, Bethlehem, the West Bank.

One of the busier travel days of the holiday season got off to a rough start after American Airlines was forced to ground flights

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