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Thousands Celebrate Christmas in Bethlehem with Dwindling Christian Arabs
(Times of Israel) Adam Rasgon - Thousands of Palestinians and international visitors celebrated Christmas Eve in Bethlehem on Monday night in numbers not seen in years. There are 46,850 Palestinian Christians living in all of the West Bank and 1,138 in Gaza, the PA reported in February. When Israel handed Bethlehem over to the Palestinian Authority in 1995, it had "a Christian population of roughly 80%. Now it's about 20%," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in October.