Israelis blast church with invisible weapon By Alan Philps in Jerusalem April 16 2002 Daily Telegraph, London Getting an earful ... loudspeakers held up near the Nativity Church pump out the noise. Photo: AFP, The Israeli Army is broadcasting ear-splitting screeches and wails at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, traditional site of Jesus' birth, to force out 200 Palestinians besieged there. Troops brought in a crane to hoist loudspeakers over the ancient basilica, one of the holiest shrines in Christendom, as part of what one person inside called "psycho terror". One of the noises sounds like a car alarm....