A Vatican official led hundreds of people on a march through Bethlehem calling on Israel to withdraw from the West Bank city. Pietro Sambi appealed for an end to Israeli “intervention,” saying the fighting should stop, “especially in so sacred a place like Bethlehem, which is the heart of all Christianity.”
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