Bethlehem Nativity Siege Awkwardly Reenacted By 7 Year-old Children
 

The recently ended siege at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem has been
awkwardly reenacted by a group of schoolchildren at a special morning
assembly in Ramallah.

Parents looked on as children from the Holy Mountain Primary School donned
false beards and  AK-47s and took part in a clumsily staged gun battle with
mock Israeli troops, which culminated in a siege at a cardboard Church of the
Nativity.

The minor glitches in the performance did not seem to affect the audience's
enjoyment, and there was affectionate laughter when a young girl playing a
suicide bomber missed her cue and dropped a bundle of pretend Semtex on a
soldier's head.

The performance was brought to a close when 7 yr-old Akbah Jahal came on
stage dressed as Yasser Arafat and defeated the Israeli troops with a 'magic
stone', accompanied by the school choir singing Robbie Williams' 'Angel'.
 

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