{"id":452603,"date":"2025-12-17T06:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/452603\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T06:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:11:11","slug":"the-take-bethlehem-marks-christmas-under-shadow-of-gaza-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/452603\/","title":{"rendered":"The Take: Bethlehem marks Christmas under shadow of Gaza war | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"post-label__text--deemphasize\">Podcast<\/strong>Podcast,  The Take<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">Amid life under Israeli occupation and war in Gaza, a public Christmas celebration returns to Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 17 Dec 202517 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>Christmas lights are back on in Bethlehem for the first time since Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza began. Yet, behind the celebrations, deep economic hardships and mounting pressure from Israeli military incursions and settler violence continue to shape daily life for Palestinian Christians across the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode:<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 2 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rev Dr Fares Abraham (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/faresabraham\">@faresabraham<\/a>), founder and president of Levant Ministries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Episode credits:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This episode was produced by Tracie Hunte and Sar\u00ed el-Khalili, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Haleema Shah, Fatima Shafiq, Farhan Rafid, Tamara Khandaker, and our host, Malika Bilal. It was edited by Noor Wazwaz and Sar\u00ed el-Khalili.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take\u2019s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera\u2019s head of audio.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connect with us:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>@AJEPodcasts on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEPodcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ajepodcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AJEPodcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLzGHKb8i9vTwjZkiFu6LhzsLUKFkYO60I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PodcastPodcast, The Take Amid life under Israeli occupation and war in Gaza, a public Christmas celebration returns to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":452604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99,3097,50,4851],"class_list":{"0":"post-452603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-middle-east","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-palestine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115733429307956986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}