The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem called in his annual Christmas message for an end to the nearly three months of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Michel Sabbah condemned Palestinian shooting at the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo from the neighboring Arab Christian village of Beit Jallah, but he also criticized the Israeli response.
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