This year, Christmas lights have returned to Bethlehem, the West Bank city where, according to Christian tradition, the baby Jesus was born in a manger, warmed only by straw and the heat of an ox and a donkey. These lights are meant to offer a semblance of a return to some semblance of normalcy after two years of war and genocide in Gaza perpetrated by Israel's ultra-religious and far-right government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu. A large tree adorned with lights and stars stands in the middle of the city's main square, known as Manger Square, near the Church of the Nativity, which claims to be the oldest church in the world. These are attempts to attract tourists once again, and indeed, some have already ventured back to Bethlehem during this festive period. They are engaging in a type of tourism that straddles the line between religious, cultural, and even morbid or disaster-seeking tourism.