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class="body"><p>US Vice President Mike Pence may have postponed his visit, but Palestinian Christians still say Washington's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital is spoiling their Christmas.</p><p>In Bethlehem, thousands plan to celebrate on December 24 and 25, including the midnight mass at the Church of the Nativity, built on the site considered the birthplace of Jesus.</p><p>In good years the West Bank town is flooded with Palestinian and foreign visitors in the days before Christmas.</p><p>But in the weeks before festivities this year, the city has at time appeared almost empty of tourists -- with nearby clashes between Palestinian protesters and the Israeli army keeping many away.</p><p>In the courtyard next to the church, a towering Christmas tree adorned with lights has had few visitors, apart from street vendors selling Santa hats and Palestinians taking selfies.</p><p>Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and the most senior Roman Catholic official in the Middle East, told journalists Wednesday there had been a marked increase overall in religious tourists this year.</p><p>But since Trump's declaration on December 6, "dozens" of groups had cancelled planned visits.</p><p>"Of course this created a tension around Jerusalem and this diverted attention from Christmas," he said.</p><p>Jane Zalfou, a 37-year-old Bethlehem Christian, said a lot of Christmas celebrations had been called off following the decision, which had "killed the joy" in the community.</p><p>"Music, fireworks and many other things have been cancelled," she told AFP.</p><p>"What happened wasn't a small thing -- it is a big deal. The Palestinian people have been waiting for so long to have their rights."</p><p>Perhaps as few as 50,000 Palestinian Christians make up only around two percent of the predominantly Muslim population in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.</p><p>Israel's tourism ministry denies Christmas has been negatively affected, saying they are running free shuttles between Jerusalem and Bethlehem for mass.</p><p>The ministry says it expects a 20-percent increase in Christian pilgrims over the course of 2017 compared to the year before.</p><p>- Evangelical support -</p><p>Israel seized east Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed it, in moves never recognised by the international community.</p><p>Palestinians view east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state, but Israel sees the whole city as its undivided capital.</p><p>The international community does not recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, instead keeping embassies in Tel Aviv.</p><center><div class="rs_skip embedded-image" style=";float:center;width:620px;"> <div class="def_img"> <a href="/web/20171222171343/http://www.digitaljournal.com/image/367770" style="display:block;text-align:center"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20171222171343im_/http://www.digitaljournal.com/img/1/0/4/8/0/9/3/i/3/6/7/p-large/6170ec58656ee356bdcdbd7a4ee9c56e5792e300.jpg" alt="A Muslim woman takes a picture of the Christmas manger on Manger Square near the Church of the Nativ..." style="max-width: 620px;" border="0"/></a> <div class="details"> <div class="description">A Muslim woman takes a picture of the Christmas manger on Manger Square near the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem</div> <div class="attribution">THOMAS COEX, AFP</div> </div> </div> </div></center><p>The Palestinians interpreted Trump's statement as rejecting their right to a capital in east Jerusalem, though the Americans deny this.</p><p>In the latest international show of support for the Palestinians, the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday rejected the US decision on Jerusalem by a vote of 128 to nine.</p><p>Trump's announcement was the fulfilment of a campaign promise which was particularly important to evangelical Christian supporters -- with Pence included among them.</p><p>The evangelical Christian movement is overwhelmingly supportive of Israel, whose founding they see as the fulfilment of biblical prophecy.</p><p>Influential US evangelical Christian Laurie Cardoza-Moore said they want to see a third Jewish temple built in Jerusalem to help facilitate Christ's second coming, but their support for Israel was based not merely on scripture.</p><p>"Like Judaism, Christianity believes that the Messiah will one day sit on the throne of David in Jerusalem," she said in a statement to AFP.</p><p>The irony that American Christian support is one of the driving factors in Trump's embassy move is not lost on Palestinian Christians.</p><p>They see their fate as part of the wider Palestinian community, which views Israel's occupation as the largest problem they face.</p><p>Mitri Raheb, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, said Christian Americans supporting Israel were ignoring the ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories.</p><p>"The essence of the Bible is freedom, not slavery, liberation not occupation," he told AFP.</p><p>"Unfortunately Trump and his people are sacrificing the Palestinian Christians for their political agenda."</p><p>Palestinians from the West Bank, including Christians, need special permits to visit Jerusalem, while the Jewish state has built a wall surrounding most of the city.</p><p>Georgette Qassis, a 65-year-old from Bethlehem wrapped in a blue scarf embroidered with the word Jesus in English, agreed.</p><p>"Who gave Trump the right? We did not," she said. "The Palestinian people are here on this great land. 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