The Municipality of Ramallah and the Ramallah Council of Churches announce to the world and to our Palestinian people the cancellation of all Christmas celebrations held annually in the city, and limiting them to church services with prayers and prayers for our people in Gaza, for the souls of those who rose during the aggression, and for the healing of the wounded and the bereaved.”

This is the text of the statement issued by the Ramallah Municipality and the Ramallah Council of Churches:

“Children of our people, mercy and eternity to the righteous martyrs of Palestine. At this time every year, we prepare to decorate the city to celebrate Christmas, to receive the holiday with joy and love. However, today, instead of drawing a smile on the faces of our children, we have mercy on them, and instead of giving them the gift of the holiday, we cannot Even sending humanitarian aid to them while they are under bombardment, war and destruction.

Our pain is great, as an unarmed people stands in front of the occupation tanks and under the fire of its warplanes, with which it carries out the most horrific massacres against our people in the West Bank and Gaza, and we say to the whole world, stop the aggression against Gaza.

This pain and killing is not a result of today, but has been repeated for 75 years, and today we have reached a time where we cannot mourn the bodies of our martyrs who died in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank from the heavy bombing and the destruction of all necessities of life.

More than 11 thousand martyrs, thousands of missing people under the rubble, thousands of wounded, and thousands of displaced people as a result of the recent Israeli aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip, all of this in front of the eyes of the entire world and its international institutions and organizations, in front of the heads of state of the world who sing of democracy and human rights, while dealing with double standards when it comes to lives. Palestinians.

At a time when the world is preparing to receive the glorious Christmas holidays, we here in Palestine, the land of Christ, peace be upon him, receive the holidays with more pain and suffering. In every home, each one of us suffers just as Christ, peace be upon him, suffered in his land and homeland, Palestine.

In light of the current circumstances of the policy of oppression and violence practiced by the occupying state and the detention of the bodies of the martyrs, we must all stand together with pride and dignity for the souls of the heroic martyrs and their families.

Out of respect for the innocent blood that was shed by the martyrs, and to denounce this aggression, the Ramallah Municipality and the Ramallah Council of Churches announce to the world and to our people the cancellation of all Christmas celebrations held annually in the city, and limiting them to church services with prayers and prayers for our people in Gaza, for the souls of our martyrs, and for the healing of the wounded. And the bereaved.

Glory and eternity to our martyrs....a speedy recovery to our wounded....and freedom and victory to our people.”