Santa Clause in Gaza (18 images)

A Palestinian child wearing a Santa Claus costume outside the Latin Church in Gaza City as Palestinian Christians attend Sunday mass led by the head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fuad Twal, ahead of Christmas, in Gaza, on December 16, 2012. Christmas Celebrations are underway in Bethlehem as thousands of pilgrims are expected to flock to the biblical town for Christmas.. UPI/Ismael Mohamad

A Palestinian Santa Claus greets children at the Latin Patriarch School in Gaza, December 24, 2001. Abdelrahman Al-khateeb/UPI

A Christian tourist from Nigeria wears a Santa Claus costume in the Church of Nativity, where tradition believes Jesus Christ was born, on Christmas Eve in the Biblical town of Bethlehem, West Bank, December 24, 2011. UPI/Debbie Hill