Bethlehem’s festive lighting engineers have been working for 26 days and have decorated half of Star Street. Their labor is a true act of Christmas charity: they have not been paid for four months because of the Western freeze on Palestinian aid after Hamas’s election victory this year.
But it will take more than the 8,000 metres of cable being strung up by Samaan Shaheen, a Christian city engineer, and his Muslim colleague Khalil to cheer up the birthplace of Christianity.
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