In a normal year, tourists and pilgrims would pack hotels in Jerusalem. But this year, many of the hotels are full of Israelis who escaped from the Hamas rampage in communities near the Gaza Strip and Lebanon borders. Those displaced Israelis have been in the hotel for two and a half months with no end in sight. Rebecca Collard reports.
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