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>> merry christmas. today is the day that more than 2 billion christians around the world are celebrating the birth of jesus. the bible says that happened here, bethlehem, and it's now the west bank. pilgrims gathered at midnight for a special mass but had to be cautious. just a day earlier the israeli military responded to a sniper attack with air strikes and tank fire in gaza. and then in baghdad militant groups have often used this holiday to target christian churches. it happened again just a few hours ago out a christmas service. a car bomb killed at least 38 people. that did not, howev...

Daily norm, it's gotten uglier than that. the u.n. said more than 100,000 people have already been killed and now this deadly new tactic. hear this, snipers are setting their sights on pregnant women. i've got to warn you, some of the video that you are about to see is very graphic and disturbing. here's atika shubert. >> reporter: it's a chilling image of just how horrific the syrian civil war has become. a sniper's bullet in the skull of an unborn fetus. the pregnant mother was the victim of a sniper attack. british surgeon dr. david knot volunteered at several hospitals in northern syria wi...

Taken a horrific turn. there's evidence now that snipers are targeting pregnant women and children. atika shubert's got the story. we've got to warn you images are graphic and this is disturbing. >> reporter: it is a chilling image of just how horrific the syrian civil war has become. a sniper's bullet in the skull of an unborn fetus. the pregnant mother was victim of a sniper attack. the surgeon volunteered at several hospitals in northern syria with a charity syria relief. >> you see the bullet hole here going from one side of the uterus to the other side and the baby was caught in the middl...

Options. to surrender or to defend ourselves using the options available. using all means available. >> in the meantime, u.n. weapons inspectors are still on the ground in damascus, trying to investigate that alleged chemical weapons attack. despite difficulties that they have faced, including a sniper attack on their convoy. you can see the bullet holes in one of their vehicles there. meantime, the spokesman for the u.n. secretary general says diplomacy is still by far the preferred means of ending this crisis. listen. >> our focus is away from any military solution and towards a diplomatic s...

Inspectors but they said also quite a productive day. their car came under fire right after they left from the hotel they were staying at. they said all of this happened in the buffer zone between the area controlled by the government and the area controlled by the rebels. it's hard to say who exactly could have been behind that sniper attack. the government, of course, blames the rebels saying it was, quote unquote, terrorist who is do this, while the rebels issued a statement saying it was a government sniper behind all this. after getting a new car when their first car was disabled, they th...