Days before Christmas, activists in Fiji have recreated the Nativity scene as part of showing solidarity for Palestine.
The Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre (FWCC) and Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network have re-creating the scene the FWCC compound.
The Nativity scene displayed by the Lutheran Church in Bethlehem has a baby Jesus figure, lying amidst the rubble, a piece of black and white checked fabric draped over his body.
“If Christ were to be born today,” said the Reverend Munther Isaac, “he would be born under the rubble and Israeli shelling.”
“The scenes we have witnessed over the past year in Gaza support this imagery’.
“Photos of children covered in dust, families bent over the bodies of loved ones, aid workers carrying the injured into hospitals that lack the elements needed to offer care.”
The scene was created to symbolize the reality of the children living and being born in Palestine at this time.
