Alex Ritson

We used to decorate the tree inside our home, to put a nativity sense under the tree also.

What do you miss most about Christmas before the war?

My home.

To be honest, my home, my memories with my family inside our home.

All of us joined the table of the dinner, our meals, the gifts we used to give to each other.

Do you miss Bethlehem?

For sure, that's right.

We used to go to Bethlehem and celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ there on the church, but now we can't go anywhere.

If you have one wish this Christmas or one message for the world, what would that be?

We ask them to keep us in their prayers.

What do you wish for yourself?

There's no personal thing.

Every tree light in Gaza was present, whether it is in the prayers or the mentioning.

What is your message to Christians around the world?

And what is your personal wish this Christmas?

The refleeting moments of joy here as light fills Bethlehem.

A fragile hope resting on a fragile ceasefire.

And a Christmas still being shaped by loss and grief.

Still to come in this podcast, Egypt starts the process of restoring a boat buried 4,000 years ago near the Great Pyramid of Giza.

In a unique first for the Grand Egyptian Museum, visitors will have a live experience of the ship's assembly.