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In article <eed5ac76-12c6-4d29-b4f0-e6e5b4cb1de8
@e60g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>, rightwinghank@hotmail.com says...
> Eight killed at Jerusalem school
>
> The gunman entered the school's dining room and opened fire
>
>
> Attack scene
> Eight people have been killed and nine wounded by a Palestinian gunman
> who infiltrated a Jewish seminary in West Jerusalem, Israeli officials
> say.
> Witnesses said the gunman went into a crowded hall during dinner at
> the Mercaz Harav seminary in the city's Kiryat Moshe quarter and
> opened fire.
>
> The assailant, who Israeli police said was a resident of East
> Jerusalem, was shot dead by an Israeli army officer.
>
> The attack is the worst of its kind in Israel for a number of years.
>
> The White House has led international condemnation but the Palestinian
> Islamist group Hamas called the attack "heroic" while not claiming
> responsibility.
>
> When we got in... we saw young, 15-, 16-year-old guys lying on the
> floor with their Bibles in their hands - all dead on the floor
>
> Witness
>
>
> In pictures: Seminary attack
> Witnesses describe carnage
> World reaction in quotes
>
> A previously unknown group called the "Jalil Freedom Battalions - the
> Martyrs of Imad Mughniyeh and Gaza" claims to have carried it out,
> according to Lebanese Hezbollah media.
>
> The fact that the school is at the heart of the settler movement in
> the occupied West Bank may have been the reason why it was targeted,
> BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen reports.
>
> Many of its students are on special courses that combine religious
> study with service in combat units in the Israeli army, he notes.
>
> There will be an Israeli response to this attack, our Middle East
> editor adds - the question is how severe it will be.
>
> 'Horrific'
>
> The gunman entered the library at the Mercaz Harav seminary on
> Thursday evening, where about 80 students were gathered, and fired an
> AK-47 rifle for several minutes, witnesses say.
>
> MERCAZ HARAV SEMINARY
>
> Founded in 1924 by influential Rabbi Avraham Hacohen Kook
> Some 500 students enrolled in Talmudic study
> Students mainly high-school age and young adults
> Graduates serve as rabbis and rabbinical judges in Israel and Jewish
> settlements
> School has played a major role in ideology and theology of Israeli
> religious settlement movement
> Key figures linked to the school were strongly opposed to Israeli pull-
> out from Gaza
>
> One of the students, Yitzhak Dadon, reportedly shot the gunman twice
> before he was finally killed by an off-duty Israeli army officer, who
> had gone to the school after hearing gunfire.
>
> "I shot him twice in the head," he told the Reuters news agency.
>
> "He started to sway and then someone else with a rifle fired at him,
> and he died."
>
> Another man told the BBC that there had been "terrible scenes" inside
> the building afterwards.
>
> "When we got in... we saw young, 15-, 16-year-old guys lying on the
> floor with their Bibles in their hands - all dead..." he said.
>
> Jerusalem police commander Aharon Franco confirmed there had been only
> one gunman and said he had hidden his weapon in a cardboard box.
>
> Imad Mughniyeh, a senior Hezbollah leader and military commander, was
> killed in a car bomb in Damascus on 12 February.
>
> 'Aimed at the heart'
>
> An Israeli foreign ministry spokesman said that "terrorists [were]
> trying to destroy the chances of peace" but peace talks with
> Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would continue.
>
> DEADLY ATTACKS IN ISRAEL
> 4 Feb 2008: One dies, Dimona suicide bombing
> 29 Apr 2007: Three die, Eilat suicide bombing
> 17 Apr 2006: Nine die, 40 wounded, suicide bombing near old bus
> station in Tel Aviv
> 30 Mar 2006: Four die, Kedumim suicide bombing
> 29 Dec 2005: Thee die, suicide bombing near Tulkarm
> 5 Dec 2005: Five die, Netanya suicide bombing
> 26 Oct 2005: Six die, Hadera market suicide bombing
> 12 July 2005: Two die, Netanya suicide bombing
> 25 Feb 2005: Five die, 50 hurt, suicide bombing outside Tel Aviv
> nightclub
> 13 Jan 2005: Six die, suicide bombing at Karni crossing
>
> Mr Abbas condemned the attack in a statement saying he "condemns all
> attacks that target civilians, whether they are Palestinian or
> Israeli".
>
> US President George W Bush condemned the attack "in the strongest
> possible terms" and UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said news of
> the killings was "shocking".
>
> "They are an arrow aimed at the heart of the peace process so recently
> revived," Mr Miliband added.
>
> UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also criticised the "deliberate
> killing and injuring of civilians" in what he called a "savage
> attack".
>
> Hamas praise
>
> In the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, gunmen fired into the air after
> news broke about the attack.
>
>
> This heroic attack in Jerusalem is a normal response to the crimes of
> the occupier and its murder of civilians
>
> Sami Abu Zuhri
> Hamas spokesman
>
> A loudspeaker in Gaza City reportedly broadcast the message: "This is
> God's vengeance"
>
> Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said the group "blesses the heroic
> operation in Jerusalem" calling it as a "natural reaction" to Israeli
> attacks.
>
> Last week, Israeli forces launched a raid into northern Gaza in which
> more than 120 Palestinians - including many civilians - were killed.
>
> Shortly after the Jerusalem shooting, the Palestinian militant group
> Islamic Jihad said four of its fighters had been killed in an Israeli
> air strike in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis.
>
> Israel says the recent military offensive has been designed to stamp
> out frequent rocket fire by Palestinian militants.
>
> Rocket attacks have hit deeper into southern Israel, reaching
> Ashkelon, the closest large city to the Gaza Strip.
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
Perhaps if the PLO wasn't busy finding babies to hide behind
before launching rockets at Israeli civilians, that sort of thing could
be more easily avoided.
@e60g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>, rightwinghank@hotmail.com says...
> Eight killed at Jerusalem school
>
> The gunman entered the school's dining room and opened fire
>
>
> Attack scene
> Eight people have been killed and nine wounded by a Palestinian gunman
> who infiltrated a Jewish seminary in West Jerusalem, Israeli officials
> say.
> Witnesses said the gunman went into a crowded hall during dinner at
> the Mercaz Harav seminary in the city's Kiryat Moshe quarter and
> opened fire.
>
> The assailant, who Israeli police said was a resident of East
> Jerusalem, was shot dead by an Israeli army officer.
>
> The attack is the worst of its kind in Israel for a number of years.
>
> The White House has led international condemnation but the Palestinian
> Islamist group Hamas called the attack "heroic" while not claiming
> responsibility.
>
> When we got in... we saw young, 15-, 16-year-old guys lying on the
> floor with their Bibles in their hands - all dead on the floor
>
> Witness
>
>
> In pictures: Seminary attack
> Witnesses describe carnage
> World reaction in quotes
>
> A previously unknown group called the "Jalil Freedom Battalions - the
> Martyrs of Imad Mughniyeh and Gaza" claims to have carried it out,
> according to Lebanese Hezbollah media.
>
> The fact that the school is at the heart of the settler movement in
> the occupied West Bank may have been the reason why it was targeted,
> BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen reports.
>
> Many of its students are on special courses that combine religious
> study with service in combat units in the Israeli army, he notes.
>
> There will be an Israeli response to this attack, our Middle East
> editor adds - the question is how severe it will be.
>
> 'Horrific'
>
> The gunman entered the library at the Mercaz Harav seminary on
> Thursday evening, where about 80 students were gathered, and fired an
> AK-47 rifle for several minutes, witnesses say.
>
> MERCAZ HARAV SEMINARY
>
> Founded in 1924 by influential Rabbi Avraham Hacohen Kook
> Some 500 students enrolled in Talmudic study
> Students mainly high-school age and young adults
> Graduates serve as rabbis and rabbinical judges in Israel and Jewish
> settlements
> School has played a major role in ideology and theology of Israeli
> religious settlement movement
> Key figures linked to the school were strongly opposed to Israeli pull-
> out from Gaza
>
> One of the students, Yitzhak Dadon, reportedly shot the gunman twice
> before he was finally killed by an off-duty Israeli army officer, who
> had gone to the school after hearing gunfire.
>
> "I shot him twice in the head," he told the Reuters news agency.
>
> "He started to sway and then someone else with a rifle fired at him,
> and he died."
>
> Another man told the BBC that there had been "terrible scenes" inside
> the building afterwards.
>
> "When we got in... we saw young, 15-, 16-year-old guys lying on the
> floor with their Bibles in their hands - all dead..." he said.
>
> Jerusalem police commander Aharon Franco confirmed there had been only
> one gunman and said he had hidden his weapon in a cardboard box.
>
> Imad Mughniyeh, a senior Hezbollah leader and military commander, was
> killed in a car bomb in Damascus on 12 February.
>
> 'Aimed at the heart'
>
> An Israeli foreign ministry spokesman said that "terrorists [were]
> trying to destroy the chances of peace" but peace talks with
> Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would continue.
>
> DEADLY ATTACKS IN ISRAEL
> 4 Feb 2008: One dies, Dimona suicide bombing
> 29 Apr 2007: Three die, Eilat suicide bombing
> 17 Apr 2006: Nine die, 40 wounded, suicide bombing near old bus
> station in Tel Aviv
> 30 Mar 2006: Four die, Kedumim suicide bombing
> 29 Dec 2005: Thee die, suicide bombing near Tulkarm
> 5 Dec 2005: Five die, Netanya suicide bombing
> 26 Oct 2005: Six die, Hadera market suicide bombing
> 12 July 2005: Two die, Netanya suicide bombing
> 25 Feb 2005: Five die, 50 hurt, suicide bombing outside Tel Aviv
> nightclub
> 13 Jan 2005: Six die, suicide bombing at Karni crossing
>
> Mr Abbas condemned the attack in a statement saying he "condemns all
> attacks that target civilians, whether they are Palestinian or
> Israeli".
>
> US President George W Bush condemned the attack "in the strongest
> possible terms" and UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said news of
> the killings was "shocking".
>
> "They are an arrow aimed at the heart of the peace process so recently
> revived," Mr Miliband added.
>
> UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also criticised the "deliberate
> killing and injuring of civilians" in what he called a "savage
> attack".
>
> Hamas praise
>
> In the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, gunmen fired into the air after
> news broke about the attack.
>
>
> This heroic attack in Jerusalem is a normal response to the crimes of
> the occupier and its murder of civilians
>
> Sami Abu Zuhri
> Hamas spokesman
>
> A loudspeaker in Gaza City reportedly broadcast the message: "This is
> God's vengeance"
>
> Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said the group "blesses the heroic
> operation in Jerusalem" calling it as a "natural reaction" to Israeli
> attacks.
>
> Last week, Israeli forces launched a raid into northern Gaza in which
> more than 120 Palestinians - including many civilians - were killed.
>
> Shortly after the Jerusalem shooting, the Palestinian militant group
> Islamic Jihad said four of its fighters had been killed in an Israeli
> air strike in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis.
>
> Israel says the recent military offensive has been designed to stamp
> out frequent rocket fire by Palestinian militants.
>
> Rocket attacks have hit deeper into southern Israel, reaching
> Ashkelon, the closest large city to the Gaza Strip.
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
Perhaps if the PLO wasn't busy finding babies to hide behind
before launching rockets at Israeli civilians, that sort of thing could
be more easily avoided.
