Bethlehem's other children, and the home that cares for them

A staff member looks on as children play at The Creche, a house sheltering children, in Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank December 9, 2020. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - Walk out of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, across Manger Square and along Star Street and you come to a part of town where few pilgrims venture.

Behind a discreet plaque saying 'Crèche' is a children's home - the only one that many illegitimate and abandoned children brought up there have ever known.