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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/christians-leave-gaza-for-bethlehem.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Gaza Strip's Christian community have left for Bethlehem to take part in Christmas celebrations" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-christians-leave-gaza-for-bethlehem.jpg" alt="Gaza Strip's Christian community have left for Bethlehem to take part in Christmas celebrations"/></a></p>
<p>More than 500 members of the Gaza Strip&#8217;s tiny Christian community have left the blockaded territory to take part in Christmas celebrations in Jesus&#8217; traditional birthplace of Bethlehem.</p>
<p>The Israeli military co-ordinated the rare passage to the West Bank on Thursday ahead of the holiday.</p>
<p>About 3,500 Christians live in Gaza among 1.5 million Muslims.</p>
<p>Relations have traditionally been good, though there has been sporadic violence against Christians since the Islamic Hamas movement wrestled control of the strip three years ago.</p>
<p>In the wake of the takeover, unidentified attackers detonated a bomb outside a Christian school, firebombed a Christian bookshop and killed a Christian who worked at one.</p>
<p>Hamas says it is committed to protecting the Christian minority.</p>
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