Bhetrehema, nzvimbo yakaberekerwa Jesu weNazareta, iri kuwedzera zvakapetwa kana muvashanyi pashure pemwaka minomwe yeKrisimasi isina tariro, meya weguta racho akadaro.
Vanosvika zviuru mazana maviri nemakumi mashanu vashanyi vachashanyira guta svondo rino, kubva pamakumi matanhatu neshanu musvondo rimwe chete gore rapfuura, Meya Victor Batarseh akadaro mubvunzurudzo parunhare. Vashanyi vanosvika miriyoni 250,000 vanotarisirwa kushanyira Bethlehem panopera gore rino, zvichimiririra kuwedzera kwe65,000 muzana kubva muna 1.25, sekureva kweBethlehem Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
"Makamuri ese 3000 muBethlehem akarongerwa Kisimusi," akadaro Samir Hazboun, sachigaro wekamuri iyi. “Kushaikwa kwemabasa muguta kwadzikira kusvika pazvikamu makumi maviri nezvitatu kubva muzana kubva pazvikamu makumi mana nezvishanu kubva muzana gore rapfuura.
Kushanya muguta reWest Bank kwakaitika zvakanyanya mumakore manomwe apfuura, zvichidzika ne90 muzana kubva muna 2000 kusvika 2001 nekutanga kweinodaidzwa kuti yechipiri intifada yePalestine, iyo yakaona kuwedzera kwemhirizhonga mudunhu rese. Gore rino, mhirizhonga yadzika kusvika pakadzika muWest Bank semauto akavimbika kuMutungamiriri wePalestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, anga ari muhurukuro dzerunyararo neIsrael kubva muna 2007, anobatanidza kutonga kwenzvimbo.
Hotera yeBethlehem Star yaMichael Kreitem, iri mumigwagwa yekare yaimbofamba-famba Mariya naJosefa vasati vadzoka vaine mwanakomana, yakanga yakazara nemhomho yevaKristu vaitaura mutauro wokuRussia, vaibva kunoshanya kwezuva rimwe chete kuNazareta.
Catalina Kolchik, makumi matatu nemaviri, akati achangodzoka kubva kuChurch of Nativity, uko maererano netsika dzechiKristu, Maria akatanga kuonekwa aina Jesu Kristu.
Nyeredzi yeBheterehema
Kunze kwechechi, iyo yakakamurwa inch-for-inch neveArmenian, Catholic neOrthodox vafundisi, 50-mamita (15 metres) muti womupaini wakamiswa, wakaputirwa nezvishongo uye wakavharwa neNyeredzi yeBheterehema, iyo Evhangeri yaMateo inotaura. ndicho chakaita kuti vachenjeri vaende kuBhetrehema kunonamata Jesu.
Mapurisa akawanda ePalestine akaiswa munzvimbo dzakatenderedza Guta Rekare uye nepamikova yenzvimbo dzechitendero, achiongorora mota nevanofamba netsoka vachipfuura.
Mauto eIsrael nePalestine masevhisi ekuchengetedza akarongeka "kuona nzira yakachengeteka uye yakachengeteka yevafambi, vashanyi nevatungamiriri vezvitendero," Lt. Col. Eyad Sirhan, Mukuru weCivil Administration's Bethlehem Coordination Office, akadaro.
Mamirioni maviri evashanyi vechiKristu vakashanyira Israel nenzvimbo dzePalestine gore rino maererano neIsrael Tourism Ministry.
Zvakadaro, Saied Querid, mutauri wechiRungu anotsetsenura anoshanda semutungamiri wevashanyi uye mutyairi wetekisi muBethlehem, akati vashanyi vazhinji maKristu vanouya kuguta kuzoona nzvimbo dzakakosha vopedzisira vapedza yakawanda yenguva yavo muIsrael.
“Vanhu vachiri kutya kurara pano uye kupedza zuva rinopfuura rimwe kana maviri vari pano,” akadaro Querid. “Pane chiseko chekuti iyi inzvimbo ine njodzi yekuti vanhu vashanyirwe. Hupfumi hwedu hune mukana wakawanda wekubatsirikana kubva mukushanya kwekushanya muIsrael. "
Kurwa muGaza
Kurwa kunoenderera mberi muGaza uko boka revarwi veHamas rakatora hutongi gore rapfuura uye kupinda kunorambidzwa neyambiro dzekufamba kwenyika. Islamic Jihad nevamwe varwi vePalestine muGaza vakatangazve kupfura matombo muSderot nemamwe maguta ari mumuganhu weIsrael uku Israel ichirwisa ndege muGaza mushure memwedzi mitanhatu yerunyararo yapera Zvita 19.
Vashanyi vanoshanyira Bhetrehema vachibva kuIsrael vanofanira kupfuura nepanzvimbo yakavharidzirwa, vachicheka nemudhuri wekongiri wakareba mamita 8 uyo unomonereka nemateru eEast Jerusalem. VaIsrael vanoti madziro edziviriro, angangoita gumi muzana echipinganidzo pakati peIsrael neWest Bank, chishandiso chinodiwa kuchengetedza vagari veIsrael kubva mukurwiswa kwePalestine asi vanopikisa rusvingo vachiti rinotora ivhu rePalestine uye rinotyora mutemo wenyika.
ZVOKUBVA MUNYAYA INO:
- Zvakadaro, Saied Querid, mutauri wechiRungu anotsetsenura anoshanda semutungamiri wevashanyi uye mutyairi wetekisi muBethlehem, akati vashanyi vazhinji maKristu vanouya kuguta kuzoona nzvimbo dzakakosha vopedzisira vapedza yakawanda yenguva yavo muIsrael.
- Tourism in the West Bank city took a deep hit in the last seven years, plummeting by 90 percent from 2000 to 2001 with the inception of the so-called second Palestinian intifada, which saw a rise in violence throughout the region.
- Kunze kwechechi, iyo yakakamurwa inch-for-inch neveArmenian, Catholic neOrthodox vafundisi, 50-mamita (15 metres) muti womupaini wakamiswa, wakaputirwa nezvishongo uye wakavharwa neNyeredzi yeBheterehema, iyo Evhangeri yaMateo inotaura. ndicho chakaita kuti vachenjeri vaende kuBhetrehema kunonamata Jesu.
