As with every year, Israel issued a number of permits for West Bank and Gaza Christians to enter Jerusalem during Easter. But then it imposed a week-long closure on the occupied territories for the Jewish Passover holiday, which coincided with Easter celebrations, thus deeming all permits void for this week.
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Half a million tourists annually walk past two fenced-in minefields to visit Qasr al-Yahud,- the site where Jesus was believed to have been baptised in the River Jordan. Many consider it the third holiest site in Christianity. Israel peppered it with mines in 1967. It continues to refuse to pay to remove them…
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For Palestinian Christians, it would mark the first time that access to the church—which is known as the site of Jesus’ crucifixion, burial, and resurrection—is blocked over Easter. Historically, thousands of Christians around Jerusalem have traveled to the city and church as part of their Easter celebration.