{"id":208372,"date":"2026-02-03T19:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208372"},"modified":"2026-02-03T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:23:09","slug":"thousands-flock-to-bethlehem-to-revive-christmas-spirit-after-war-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208372","title":{"rendered":"Thousands flock to Bethlehem to revive Christmas spirit after war in Gaza&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After two years of subdued Christmas celebrations due to war in Gaza, thousands of people have flocked to Bethlehem&#8217;s Manger Square on Christmas Eve. The giant Christmas tree returned, and scouts groups marched and played festive music. Bethlehem canceled cel\u2026<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/christmas-bethlehem-christians-war-israel-gaza-tourism-ffa3e7842d1843899d580322d97a7e9c\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two years of subdued Christmas celebrations due to war in Gaza, thousands of people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208372-thousands-flock-to-bethlehem-to-revive-christmas-spirit-after-war-in-gaza.jpg",1440,810,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208372-thousands-flock-to-bethlehem-to-revive-christmas-spirit-after-war-in-gaza-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208372-thousands-flock-to-bethlehem-to-revive-christmas-spirit-after-war-in-gaza-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208372-thousands-flock-to-bethlehem-to-revive-christmas-spirit-after-war-in-gaza-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208372-thousands-flock-to-bethlehem-to-revive-christmas-spirit-after-war-in-gaza-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208372-thousands-flock-to-bethlehem-to-revive-christmas-spirit-after-war-in-gaza.jpg",1440,810,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208372-thousands-flock-to-bethlehem-to-revive-christmas-spirit-after-war-in-gaza.jpg",1440,810,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208372-thousands-flock-to-bethlehem-to-revive-christmas-spirit-after-war-in-gaza-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208372-thousands-flock-to-bethlehem-to-revive-christmas-spirit-after-war-in-gaza-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208372-thousands-flock-to-bethlehem-to-revive-christmas-spirit-after-war-in-gaza-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=14\" rel=\"category\">BREAKING NEWS<\/a>","tag_info":"BREAKING NEWS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/208373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}