Palestinian gunmen kill eight at Jewish school (1 Viewer)

[chicky_pie]

A PALESTINIAN gunman has opened fire in a Jewish religious school in Jerusalem, killing at least eight people and wounding about 10 in the most lethal attack in Israel in two years.

"It was a slaughterhouse," said Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, head of the Zaka emergency service after surveying the scene at the Merkaz Harav seminary, one of the most prominent Jewish educational centres in the holy city.

Jerusalem police chief Aharon Franco said a lone gunman carried out the attack and was killed by an off-duty Israeli army officer who lives nearby and ran to the school after hearing gunfire. Police had said earlier there were two gunmen.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but it was greeted with celebrations in the Gaza Strip, where a recent Israeli offensive killed more than 120 Palestinians, about half of whom were identified as civilians.

The United Nations, Washington, France and Germany condemned the attack in the strongest terms, and diplomats said the UN Security Council would discuss the attack at an extraordinary session.

Israeli media reports said the gunman was a resident of Arab East Jerusalem. The school is in the Jewish western part of the city.

An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said "terrorists are trying to destroy the chances of peace but we will certainly continue peace talks" with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

The Palestinian leader condemned the Jerusalem attack.

Witnesses said the gunman entered the crowded seminary and fired an automatic weapon at students in its library. Police chief Franco said the attacker killed eight people.

Police said it appeared most of the dead were in their 20's.

"He hid the weapon in a cardboard box," Mr Franco said.

Emergency worker Yerach Tucker said bloodied students ran out of the seminary. "I went into the library and there were youngsters lying there, dead with bibles - with holy books in their hands."

It was the most lethal attack in Jerusalem since 2004 and caused the highest Israeli death toll since April 17, 2006, when 11 people were killed in a suicide bombing during the Passover holiday in Tel Aviv.

President George W. Bush condemned the attack "in the strongest possible terms" and said he had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to offer condolences.

"I told him the United States stands firmly with Israel in the face of this terrible attack," he said.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "condemns in the strongest terms today's savage attack ... and the deliberate killing and injuring of civilians ..." Mr Ban's spokeswoman Michel Montas said in New York.

"(He) is deeply concerned at the potential for continued acts of violence and terrorism to undermine the political process, which he believes must be pursued to achieve a secure and lasting peace for Israelis and Palestinians, based on a two-state solution."

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner added their condemnation, while British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the only way to honour the memory of the dead was to promote peace.

Yitzhak Dadon, who told reporters that he shot the gunman, said the attacker, wearing torn jeans, fired at the students with an AK-47 assault rifle. Witnesses said the shooting spree went on for about five minutes.

"I saw the gunman and he fired a long burst in the air. But then he disappeared," Mr Dadon said. "I saw him again when he approached the door of the library. I shot him twice in the head. He started to sway and then someone else with a rifle fired at him, and he died."


http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23334237-2,00.html

War Wahhh Warrrrrrrr!

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

Great. Now Israel will find some way to launch a little bit more of their beloved holocaust upon their friendly neighbours.

 

[Zrap]

Lol all this over religious sites.

 

[Serius]

Fuck me, i had a dream like that the other day. As i get older i am getting even more sick of religion. All it ever seems to do is be used as an excuse to repress and murder people...

 

[MaNiElla]

Israeli strike kills playing palestinian children

A 13-month-old girl was killed in Gaza

Palestinians risk 'holocaust': Israeli minister (lol, they survive the holocaust, then they go do another one to other people)

 

[jb_nc]

Israeli strike kills playing palestinian children

A 13-month-old girl was killed in Gaza

Palestinians risk 'holocaust': Israeli minister (lol, they survive the holocaust, then they go do another one to other people)

Guess this makes it okay then.

Tit for tat is the ultimate justification.

 

[MaNiElla]

Guess this makes it okay then.

Tit for tat is the ultimate justification.

come on jb_nc, of course it doesn't!

Im just showing that the other side committed murderous things. My intention wasnt to imply what you said at all

 

[jb_nc]

Fuck me, i had a dream like that the other day. As i get older i am getting even more sick of religion. All it ever seems to do is be used as an excuse to repress and murder people...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/957143.html

In an extensive study of Palestinian suicide bombings, three University of Toronto researchers have concluded that the bombers were not psychologically unstable and were often motivated by personal vengeance, not religious zeal.

 

[kaz1]

so two wrongs do make a right

 

[Aryanbeauty]

I saw Hamas celebrating the massacre of 8 innocent students on SBS news. Just like Hizbollocks celebrating the death of thousands of lebs killed by Israeli bombings as if it was their birthdays LOL!

 

[F2001]

Aryan, I can't even see Israel on that pathetic map.

You should sieze some more land

 

[ari89]

I saw Hamas celebrating the massacre of 8 innocent students on SBS news. Just like Hizbollocks celebrating the death of thousands of lebs killed by Israeli bombings as if it was their birthdays LOL!

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/8176/palseminaryattack1lm7.jpg

 

[Aryanbeauty]

Aryan, I can't even see Israel on that pathetic map.

You should sieze some more land

Yeah such a tiny nation the size of Sydney Metropolitan has been kicking arab arse since 1948. It is really pathetic that these greedy arabs won't part with such tiny land you cannot even recognise on a map.

 

[jb_nc]

Yeah such a tiny nation the size of Sydney Metropolitan has been kicking arab arse since 1948. It is really pathetic that these greedy arabs won't part with such tiny land you cannot even recognise on a map.

Stop

posting.

 

[nagiha]

this is absouletly pathetic. When someone pucnhes you, dont you hit back? Its called retaliation. Palestinians have lost 120 INOCENT civillians in 3 days. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Israel has occupied Palestinian land. An Israeli will keep dying, as long as theres an occupation.
simple.

 

[Serius]

this is absouletly pathetic. When someone pucnhes you, dont you hit back? Its called retaliation. Palestinians have lost 120 INOCENT civillians in 3 days. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Israel has occupied Palestinian land. An Israeli will keep dying, as long as theres an occupation.
simple.

Yeah because that sort of attitude is really going to solve all their problems isnt it? It sure hasnt worked for the last 200 years

Where does it stop? who is going to be the first one to forgive [like both of their religions say they should] instead of lashing out in hatred and anger. Those countries are going to be around for a long time and they will have to learn to put up with each other if they dont want their civilians dying every few days.

 

[Mumma]

What idiot decided it would be a good idea to put a Jewish state there?

 

[ari89]

The UN?

 

[F2001]

Yeah such a tiny nation the size of Sydney Metropolitan has been kicking arab arse since 1948. It is really pathetic that these greedy arabs won't part with such tiny land you cannot even recognise on a map.

you're both greedy, and you're a laughing stock to rest of the world

Why arn't you deported, or better yet, you're so pathetic "kicking arab arse" Go there and join the army then. As another said, stop posting, stop sitting back and kick some arse, yea!

Fucking redneck.

 

[Aryanbeauty]

you're both greedy, and you're a laughing stock to rest of the world

Why arn't you deported, or better yet, you're so pathetic "kicking arab arse" Go there and join the army then. As another said, stop posting, stop sitting back and kick some arse, yea!

Fucking redneck.

yet you begged jews to seize more lands cause your arab eyes can't see tiny jewish state on a map ha ha.