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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Leo Correa

PHOTO ESSAY: Workshops empty, Bethlehem carvers fret over second Easter with no tourists

Bethlehem workshops where carvers toil over small pieces of olive wood sit empty these days.

On most Easters the shops lining the streets of the town known as Jesus’s birthplace would be bustling with tourists. But since the war between Israel and Hamas began, Attalah Zacaria has earned the bulk of his profits from sales to Europe and the United States that are now threatened by newly imposed American tariffs.

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