Just some news from a German news agency on the church of nativity. Sources: mobile phone calls from inside from monks, so make your guess at reliability.

The monks are scared that there will be a massacre once the Israeli soldiers enter the church. One said, they are misused as a shield by armed militants. The figures mentioned are: 30 civilians and 150 mostly armed Palestinians (why 'civilians' and 'palestinians' are two distinct categories in that report I don't know) and 35 monks and nuns.

Wolfgang