24 Dec 2019

The Scar of Bethlehem at the Walled Off Hotel

From Lately, 10:30 pm on 24 December 2019

Banksy - the anonymous England-based street artist who has been active since the 1990s - has created a new art work "the Scar of Bethlehem" which features a nativity scene with Mary and Joseph and the baby Jesus, but instead of a star hanging over the crib there is a what appears to be a bullet hole piercing a grey wall. The Scar of Bethlehem has appeared at the Walled Off Hotel which Banksy helped set up, that overlooks the border wall between Israel and Palestine in the divided city of Bethlehem, and Karyn speaks with the hotel's manager, Wasim Salsaa.