The conflict in Israel/Palestine has taken a terrible toll in human life, but also in human livelihoods. The collapse in the local economy is less gut-wrenching than the fate of Hamas hostages and the victims of the bombardments, but it’s important nonetheless. Whereas formerly Palestinians living in Jerusalem and the Occupied Territories could make a living from tourism to the Holy Places and goods manufactured for tourists – anything from jewellery to rosary beads to ceramics – the market has collapsed: there are no tourists and it’s difficult to get goods out of the occupied territories, and money in. The situation is all the grimmer, because tourism had only just recovered from COVID. And so, more Christians will leave – there are estimated to be just 127,000 left in the Holy Land, or just over two per cent of the population.