In Bethlehem, Christmas celebrations are officially canceled by the mayor and churches in solidarity with the people of Gaza. NBC News’ Richard Engel has more on how this normally busy time for the city has transformed amid the Israel-Hamas war.
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I’m thinking about the hostages and the unimaginable conditions they must be in right now.
Merry Christmas
The only threat to the hostages is Israeli bombs and soldiers. IDF murdered three hostages that were begging for their lives, and you still don’t understand the situation?
I think about thousands of Palestinians dying every day since Oct 7 and those alive are being denied basic human rights by Israel a terrorist state
They are not better than many thousands of Palestinians were killed
Not even Baby Jesus is siding with Israel on this one!
I bet Genocide Joe didn’t expect the US support of Israel to get so much publicity at this time. 😢
Tragic and sad.
They closed because they are a target for Hamas. People forget that during the Intafada Hamas barricaded themselves in the Church of the Nativity and used it as a shield. Only terrorists would do that!.
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Palestinians are supporters and sponsors of terrorist groups and have done so for many many decades. They bring this upon themselves. It’s called consequences.
Why does NBC insist on calling a Zionist Holocaust, a War?
The city is like 90% Muslim. They just wanna cry victim after THEY STARTED a war (again) and now are losing (again).
Why is Richard Engel not in Gaza?
We Christians and Muslims have a common enemy. Let us reassemble and fight alongside them. Let us work together to make the world a more peaceful place for all people.
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Amen. I’m muslim and I stand with you.
That’s the problem. Organized religion and cults. Everyone has to belong to this or has to belong to that, everyone doesn’t feel good unless they show pride to the world every Friday, Saturday or Sunday that they have a direct line to a being that may or may not exist. This is what causes ALL THE FIGHTING and ALL THE SUFFERING. Forget about God, live life as if you were a little child, for the mind of a child is innocent and doesn’t contemplate hate, pride, religion, race, culture, creed, physical borders, or hunger for money and power.
LOL. Most American Christians support Israel and definitely don’t support Islam
Who is that common enemy…? I don’t understand
@@justacinnamonbun8658 I wish you knew what Religion really was. As a Muslim I’d be happy for you even if you found love for God through Judaism or Christianity. I pray that God leads you to his path, I pray that you find guidance and love through him, and I pray for you a life as long as God wills and a death as merciful. Please don’t live with hatred or ignorance, I encourage you to reach out to God for help and guidance and let him know you’re not yet lost.
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These are real practicing Christians. They’re witnessing daily atrocities in west bank and in gaza by occupation forces. This was a solidarity towards Palestinians Christians and Muslims and children and woman who are oppressed by Natanyahu and his evil forces in Gaza.
You’ll never erase Jesus from our hearts, as much as you may try
Dont care !!!!
One day we *will* share this earth. It’s up to us to decide whether it’s as a society or a cemetery.
This so sad. May God help us through these times. Help us bring Peace in Ukraine an Israel. God Bless everyone. 🌟✝️🌟. Merry Christmas. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
Christmas is a day for thanking God Jesus was born, so, its a day of faith, people dont forget their faith during a holy war. This is a holy war Israel rage against evil hammas and against hatful crulity the palestenians have for the jews and against the world. Marry Christmas❤ and a Very Happy New Yars, from me a muslim to all Christians. God Bliss you.
I hope my Palestinians find peace and my Israelis find a way to end this tragedy .
Do you actually think it is in solidarity with gaza? Please. They don’t want to be attacked.
Matthew 10:34
“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.”
The people cancelling the cellebrations are clearly not true to their faith…or wait…maybe they are not Christian at all….
They are more Christian than you have ever been because they are capable of compassion and empathy. They are also one of the oldest Christian communities in the world.
West Bank Palestinians still had church Masses (liturgy service) and prayers, but not secular festivities with Xmas trees, decorations, Santa etc. They understand what Christmas is about.
You can always come to Bethlehem pa in the United States…..
Yup , US always have to colonozie and steal from the middle.east anyways😂😂😂
Cancel Christmas to spite jews?
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wowee zowee
I pray for conversion of the followers of Mohammed and semites who preach “an eye for an eye”. For on this day was born the son of God to bring his message of peace.✝️
Jesus (p.b.u.h) is a Prophet of God.
Son of God Yeshua Hamashiach brother please see the truth shall set you free
Cancelled due to the IDF!
This is just wrong. It doesn’t matter if there are presents or not. That’s not what Christmas is about. It’s about God sending his only son to save us from our sins. This feels blasphemous.
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Imagine if your parents canceled your birthday in order to stand in solidarity with whatever.
Somehow I think the dude famous for teaching humility, forgiveness and peace would flip the tables of anyone trying to throw him a party in such circumstances.
If it’s against Jews, NBC will broadcast it for everyone to see. When did the left become so antisemitic?
Gaza attacked Isreal and murdered 1200 innocent people. Don’t ever forget. Thats 1200 people that won’t be at home for Christmas and Hanukkah. All bc of what the people of Gaza did. They cheered in the streets after the attack.
The people of Gaza cheered in the streets after Hamas attacked and killed 1200 innocent children, women, and men for no reason at all.
Good. Tired of these cult celebrations.
I’m so sorry my dear friend. God love you. You will see him in Jannah. ❤️❤️🙏🙏
The western christians failed Jesus birth place and its gardians. Big time. A stain that will take so much to wash away.
So sad, heartbreaking 💔💔😭😭
Oct 7th was not the start of a war it was when innocent people were brutally nurdered by hamas I do however still feel for all those suffering caught in the crossfire that has transpired as a result no one is better furthered by terrorism or war it’s all so very heartbreaking 🥺💔
What innocent people died on Oct 7? Are u that brainwashed by ZİONİST owned media?
75 years of brutal occupation from Israel too.
Israel keeps building on Palestinian Territory as we speak. This needs to stop before any negotiation.
How does anybody cancel Christmas??
It’s a pagan holiday
They had Christmas services. It’s just a little disingenuous reporting by pro-Hamas NBC. Merry Christmas! Peace on Earth.
@@CactusThorn “pro-Hamas NBC” You’re not a serious person.
Oh, excuse me, Pro Palestinian!!!!!! LOL.@@Anon_1003
Islam hates all Christians.
Wow, the Palestinians aren’t celebrating Christmas. Could it be they are not Christians? Welcome to propaganda nation.
You gotta be kidding me 🙄😆
There’s victims on both sides!!
There’s Not only victims in Gaza, There’s the victims that Hamas murdered and Hamas uses women and children as sheilds!!
Christians aren’t welcome in Gaza and neither are Jews but Muslims can live in Israel peacefully!
Free the West Bank. The mayor, what a joke, there hasn’t been a real election in the West Bank since 2007 when HAMAS won that election and the PLO (Hamas lite) said they were making Hamas illegal. So the only reason Hamas doesn’t run the West Bank is a coup by a dictator. So the best options Palestinian’s can come up with are apparently terrorist dictator or the genocidal terrorist group. Obviously just a wonderful place full of wonderful people…
Never forget October 7th the day when the love and the music stopped. The day hamas plunged the world into darkness.
Why are the Christians here in America so different?
Israel just recently tried to make practicing Christianity illegal… Don’t get it twisted
Who cares ……..MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄 everyone
….solidarity with Palestine
Time to Start Your Kids & Grandkids to Cancel their Goals & Dreams so they can Fight Endless Wars due to the US/UK/EU Governments & Propaganda Media Networks like this one! Peace is Never Ever An Option! As the World is Drowning from War Inflation & a Global Refugee Crisis!!!
2:10 The priest needs to read the gospel. “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household” (Matthew 10:34-36).
It’s sad that terrorists can do this. They car nothing about Jesus Christ or his birth. They are far from God and fail to recognize that evil has attacked God’s chosen people.
What the Democrats and the left are trying to do to Christians is despicable
christians in america would never do this
Netanyahu to The Hague.
The cold blooded Americans wouldn’t even listen to their own and continue to support Israel committing genocide of Palestinians. Yet they ask “Why do they hate us?”
Only till we say goodbye in America due to 🏩✡️👮🏿♀️
No freedom no peace
Who bites the hand that fed them. 😆🦧👍✡️🏩. Take it home.
But when God says no to the government. He means it. And nobody has power over God.
Try me
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Read the full message in it.
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Great. Thank you for reporting. May there be peace. May god protect the innocents suffering.
this is what “God” wants lol
Canceled is Palestine
So where’s god and jesus during all this war?
Politicians 💰 🤑 💸 😎 USA 😎 🙈 🙊 🙉 🇺🇸 world 🌎 Double gamer arms commission broker don’t trust 🌎
Power of Zionist money
More like Christmas is cancelled because the 10% of Bethlehem is afraid of what the intolerant 90% will do to them
Sad to see Christian Palestinians siding with Hamas in the propaganda war.
Why would they say with a side that killing them?
Muslims dont celebrate Christmas. They all hate Christians.
Jesus wasn’t born on Christmas . Christmas is a attempt to turn pagans into Christians. Originally a Roman traditional holiday .
This is the real Christianity
What about the Hostages being held by the followers of the spiteful false prophet?
Let’s not forget that there are only less than 700 Gazan Christian’s left that are at risk of extinction. Western Christian’s who support Israel should be ashamed. We need to remember that some of these Palestinian Christian’s may have bloodlines back to Christ.
He’s right people spent Christmas in rubble. But the era of Jesus was ruff. But then you could escape into Egypt. Today its worse, your trapped and starved.
God bless Bethlehem. And all its people I mean all of them. Please quit hurting each other please.😢
Politically, the Bethlehem Governorate is something of a stronghold of the Palestinian left. At the 2006 Palestinian legislative election the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and The Alternative both had their best votes there. Its current governor is Salah al-Tamari. So the Islamic terrorists are now closing Bethlehem.
I cant remember a time when they closed Bethlehem the birth of our savior. You can STILL Watch his birth here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yumoqNlaPCE
Yeshua is celebrated every day every moment. Jesus said know the truth and the truth will set you free. Christians need be strong, and be filled with the revelation of word the God and pray for your discernment to know Good and Evil,do not be emotional.
Zionism is Lucifer’s Army
In solidarity with the people of Palestine today and every day.
The devil is in control
Such hypocrisy!
To say there’s no celebration is misleading. To rephrase, things were somber there. Most Christians in the holy land are Palestinian. Their brethren are under siege in Gaza, and it’s hard to celebrate. Also, tourists won’t travel bc they don’t want to get caught in the crossfire. At the end of the day, Jesus came to create peace and that’s what we all seek
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household” Matthew 10:34-36. Not sure what Bible you’re reading
Netanyahu must face a war crimes trial, for the genocide of 20,000 Palestinians, and forced displacement of 1.9 million civilians! Freedom & Justice for Palestine!🇵🇸
The world needs to extricate itself from Israeli influence. The rogue state of Israel, now and since 1948 committing genocide on the Palestinian people, has an undeclared and unregulated nuclear weapons program,
is through its Jewish agencies (Jewish or Israel are almost always in the title of its representative agencies) actively recruiting foreigners for its Israeli soldiers of the racist supremacist apartheid, occupation, and genocide army of Israel for the express purpose of oppressing and murdering Palestinians,
and uses dead or live Canadian passports for its international assassins.
It is exerting economic terrorism within Canada, the US, and western countries by using intimidation and undue influence to have our doctors fired for revealing Israeli war criminal atrocities upon the Palestinian people when we’re is in a severe doctor shortage, to create Jewish-Israeli-centric representation aimed at suppressing the truth of the use of medical terrorism and suppressing the minority Palestinian voice within their own countries here in the west.
It is exerting economic terrorism within Canada, the US, and western countries by using intimidation and undue influence to have our educators and employees fired for revealing Israeli war criminal atrocities upon the Palestinian people when we’re is in an economic crisis, to create Jewish-Israeli-centric representation aimed at suppressing the truth using educational terrorism and suppressing the minority Palestinian voice within their own countries here in the west.
hostages tell of decent treatment by captors
https://youtu.be/ZIMfc1y59mM?si=hEPR4ATMlNOqU6lh
Hamas supporters are against Christmas because it’s a Christian holiday. The flag they wave around the world is a symbol of Islam.
Christmas is about remembering Christ, the birth of Christ, Jesus the Saviour of the world, the Redeemer of mankind. Jesus is love, life, truth, liberty, righteousness, justice, peace, hope. HAMAS terrorists are the ones to blame for all the bloodshed & deaths. They started this war, not Israel.
Everyone wants to blame Israel. I say God bless Israel!
God bless the Jewish people.
God bless the IDF.
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DORAYE PARKES
If u try to use 1 of our holiest places especially on this CHRISTMAS as a political pawn with your propaganda, it wont work not for me. A child is born ,God gave us his most precious gift.Jesus is in our ❤ s no matter where we are or who is occupying his place of birth.🙏 & i say t.y Jesus & happy birthday, every CHRISTMAS my thing as a Christian that did not stop this year,❤🇺🇸
Christians and Muslims unite against extermination of religions in the holy land by Zionist regime
Palestinians are Jesus’s people
The illegal occupation and war crimes must end
That store is disgusting. A store of images claiming to be Christian. Disgusting
Birthplace is ander occupied by zionist
They should care about Christians in syria,iraq, Lebanon