cue the christmas carol jokes

From the BBC (again via dear S.) comes a sweet story of a birth in Bethlehem (no, not that one). Two journalists based in Jerusalem travel past checkpoints to bring their son into the world, in the crowded company of

....a Palestinian Muslim gynaecologist, two Palestinian Christian midwives, a woman from Croatia who wore a nursing uniform but who - as far as I could tell - did not do much and an Italian nun who cruised the wards praying for newborns.

As the father writes, that will make for one amusing British passport entry.