A Palestinian woman wearing face veil, niqab, works on Christmas-themed gifts in a handicraft workshop, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in the northern Gaza Strip December 1, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
GAZA (Reuters) - It's not going to be a very merry Christmas this year for a handicraft workshop in Islamist-run Gaza that has been an unlikely source of gifts for the holiday.
Coronavirus lockdowns have made it difficult for the Zeina Cooperative Association to export its hand-crafted Christmas gifts from Gaza to Europe and to the Palestinian town of Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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