Pandemic brings dark times to Jerusalem's Old City


  • World
  • Tuesday, 01 Dec 2020

A Palestinian youth smokes as another uses his mobile phone in an alley at night amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, in Jerusalem's Old City November 25, 2020. Picture taken November 25, 2020. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - As night grips Jerusalem's walled Old City, its ancient alleyways become a ghost town of haunting shadows and light.

Mornings used to reveal bright picture-postcard scenes of tourists from around the world stopping to buy souvenirs at Palestinian shops as they made their way to biblical sites holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians.

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