BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK - Eight Palestinians walked out of the Church of the Nativity on Thursday, accompanied by two monks and carrying the bodies of two dead Palestinians out on stretchers, the largest group to leave the church in the 3-week-old standoff. <br>
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They set the bodies, which had been deteriorating in the church for well over a week, in the center of Manger Square. A Palestinian ambulance picked drove up and collected the bodies.
