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And come to jerusalem, for the celebrations. as we mentioned this activity in bethlehem has been scaled down because of the ongoing violence and political tension, violence continued today, several attacks on israeli shoulders soldiers and two is really a trickle during a stabbing attack in the old city of jerusalem yesterday. still, that said, again it is very busy, people are not deterred. and as we have been seeing in manger square, a lot of children, families going on, and in manger square with my mom, it was her first time and she absolutely loved it and thought it was so cool. i am not a big fan but she loved it. jon: let s hope they can keep the peace, john huddy, merry ....
Every the past year, we had some unique opportunity to explore america and all the things that make our country great. they will take you on a patriotic journey through history, american journey airs on fox news channel tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern and tomorrow, christmas day at 4:00 p.m. eastern. jon: just before santa comes. thousands of christians descend on the biblical city of bethlehem. how they are celebrating today live from jerusalem. and then there is this. why are you calling 911? don t come to my house. jon: a little girl trying to keep in santa s good graces after accidentally knocking over her family s elf on a shelf. she dialed 911. come on in pop pop. ....
Palestinians. john huddy reporting live from the middle east bureau in nearby jerusalem. reporter: certainly violence is on people s mines, people that are visiting in the holy city of jerusalem and bethlehem for the christmas celebrations, but hasn t deterred the christian faithful, pilgrims from flocking to and going to manger square in bethlehem. take a live look, a shot of the activities going on, thousands of people in manger square, the 50 foot tall christmas trees there with the church and the nativity in the background where things will culminate. the celebration will culminate with midnight mass. earlier today marching bands parade through major square followed by the last patriarch of jerusalem s annual procession to the jury of the hole in nativity. ....
Fox can not independently verify this video. the syrian government has banned foreign journalists and prevented independent reporting from inside the country. amateur video also purportedly shows the body of a young child, maybe five years old, dead, placed on a convoy of cars carrying those monitors. the picture is simply too graphic to show you but it reinforces outside suspicions that the violence is much, much worse than syria would have the world believe. leland vittert is live following these developments from nearby jerusalem. leland? reporter: jon, you re right. the pictures that are coming out of syria are really disturbing to say the least and also scary in the sense that the arab league monitors are just like the protesters, often coming under fire from syrian troops over the past couple days. we heard today that there was a march of about 20,000 demonstrators near a mosque in damascus and the syrian government opened fire once again despite many promises not to do this un ....