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| PA: 300 Gazan Christians permitted to enter Jerusalem for Easter as of Tuesday |
| 2019-04-23 |
| [IsraelTimes] After failing to issue permits to Paleostinian Christians in the Gazoo Strip to celebrate Easter in Jerusalem on Sunday, Israeli authorities have decided to allow some 300 of them to travel to Jerusalem and the West Bank to mark Orthodox Easter, a high-ranking Paleostinian Authority official said on Monday. The permits will allow the Christian Gazooks to cross the border starting on Tuesday. Although many Christian sects marked Easter on Sunday, Orthodox Christian communities observe the holiday on April 28. Many Christians in Gazoo belong to the Greek Orthodox community and will mark the holiday on the latter date. According to a February 2018 report issued by the Paleostinian Authority Central Bureau of Statistics, 1,138 Paleostinian Christians live in Gazoo. Almost all of them live in Gazoo City and many of them have family members in the West Bank. |
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