STORY: Rana Bishara said she wanted to deliver a message of peace. "My message here: to stop the war, first of all, stop the war now," she said, adding that if Jesus was born that night, he would be dead because of the ongoing war.

Bishara explained that the baby figure was lying on a mat of cactus "because cactus is the symbol of Palestine, and the symbol of 531 villages and towns, they were depopulated, and bombed in 1948, where one of the villages was my village."