It is a departure from the military's usual Christmas holiday policy. FMTNews Israel Gaza
Christian visitors gather outside the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Israel tightly restricts movements out of the Gaza Strip, territory controlled by Hamas, an Islamist group that it considers a terrorist organisation. On Sunday, the liaison office, known as COGAT, announced on Twitter that its director has “extended the travel facilitation for the Christian population of Gaza for the Christmas holiday”.
Gaza has only around 1,000 Christians, most of them Greek Orthodox, in a population of 2 million in the narrow coastal strip.
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