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AUDIO: Christmas in Bethlehem and Gaza

Christians in Gaza celebrated Christmas at church. (ABC News)

The small number of Christians remaining in Gaza have marked Christmas early with subdued celebrations in the shadow of ongoing conflict and occupation. 

The Catholic Church said only around 600 Christians remain in Gaza after the two-year war between Israel and Hamas from a total of 1,700 before the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023.

While thousands of pilgrims and worshippers have returned to the city of Bethlehem in the West Bank in the first full-scale celebrations since the outbreak of the Gaza war.

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