{"id":23897,"date":"2018-12-01T05:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T05:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23897"},"modified":"2018-12-01T05:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T05:23:29","slug":"palestinians-cheer-as-tourists-throng-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23897","title":{"rendered":"Palestinians cheer as tourists throng Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"66.7234042553\">\n<p>Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, is experiencing a record flow of tourists. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/israel.html\">Israel<\/a> says October figures were record-breaking.<\/p>\n<p>The holy city is located in the occupied <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/occupied-west-bank.html\">West Bank<\/a> and the ongoing political tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have a direct effect on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/issues\/tourism.html\">tourism<\/a> industry.<\/p>\n<p>The record growth in tourism brings Palestinians, who have been struggling to make ends meet, some reason to cheer.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Stefanie Dekker reports from Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, is experiencing a record flow of tourists. Israel says October figures were record-breaking. The holy city is located in the occupied West Bank and the ongoing political tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have a direct effect on the tourism industry. The record growth in tourism brings Palestinians, who have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}