However, numbers are still a far cry from the 3.5 million visitors who came to Bethlehem in winter 2019, just before the pandemic.
Pizzaballa left Jerusalem in a car convoy, and was scheduled to cross the Israeli built-separation barrier into the West Bank where he will lead the Midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity, traditionally attended by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other Palestinian officials.
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