US veto is response to Bethlehem churches letter – Palestinian pastor

US veto is the response to Bethlehem churches letter requesting a ceasefire, Munther Isaac, pastor of Christmas Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem said.

The letter was sent to the White House to call for an immediate ceasefire, before the US vetoed the vote in the UN on Friday.

“They celebrate Christmas in their land, and wage war in our land,” Isaac said on X.

Isaac’s church has displayed a Christmas nativity scene with baby Jesus lying in a manger on a pile of rubble to reflect what is happening in Gaza.

Isaac further explained the scene by saying: “if Jesus was to be born into our world today, I wonder, would he have entered our world in any other way?”

I was asked today by a journalist if we received a response from the white house to the letter we sent from the churches in Bethlehem asking for a ceasefire. I answered that the response was the veto vote in the UN. They celebrate Christmas in their land, and wage war in our land

— Munther Isaac منذر اسحق (@MuntherIsaac) December 10, 2023