Palestinian Intifada Strikes Deep Inside Zionist Entity
Source: Agencies, 7-3-08
The Zionist entity is witnessing one of its worst moments after it got an overwhelming strike in its heart, the center of Zionism.
'Israeli' occupation police were placed on a state of alert and upped security measures in Al Quds(Jerusalem) on Friday after the heroic operation in the Jewish religious school. "We brought in a large number of forces for the security of residents," the city's police chief Aharon Franco told military radio the morning after a Palestinian gunman opened fire inside the school. Police was in a "general state of alert" throughout the country, he said.
At least eight 'Israeli' settlers are dead and 35 wounded after an armed man opened fire at Merkaz Harav Yeshiva, a Jewish seminary in the western part of Al Quds.
The attacker entered a library where about 80 religious settlers were gathered at the yeshiva, or religious school, and killed eight on Thursday.
He was reportedly shot dead by a student and a soldier.
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. Many of its students are on special courses that combine religious study with service in combat units in the 'Israeli' army.
No group has officially claimed responsibility for the attack - the first in Al Quds in more than four years when a martyrdom bomber killed eight people and himself aboard a bus - but Hamas praised the attack as "heroic" and said it would not be the last.
In Beirut, Al-Manar TV Channel announced that those responsible were members of a previously unknown group called "Phalange of Free Men of Galilee - Groups of the Martyr Imad Moghniyeh and Martyrs of Gaza." The claim was made in a tag line running across the bottom of the screen, and no further details were immediately given.
"The responsibility for the massacre lies with the governments of 'Israel', which for years have displayed weakness and exhaustion and have seen to the armament of the enemy," the Yesha Rabbinical Council wrote in a stinging rebuke of the 'Israeli' leadership following the Thursday's deadly attack.
The seminary, located in the Kyriat Moshe neighbourhood, is a well-known centre for Jewish studies linked to those leading the Jewish settler movement in the occupied West Bank.
Micky Rosenfeld, an 'Israeli' police spokesman, said the attacker walked through the seminary's main gate and entered the library.
He carried an assault rifle and pistol, and used both weapons in the attack, spraying dozens of bullets. At least six empty bullet clips were found on the floor, he said.
'Israeli' war officials said the attacker came from east Al Quds, the predominantly Arab section of the city which 'Israel' captured and occupied in the 1967 war.
In contrast to Palestinians in the West Bank, those in Al Quds have 'Israeli' identification cards, allowing them relatively free movement inside 'Israel'.
Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from the scene of the attack, said that questions would be raised as to how the assailant passed through the many security checks situated in the area.
Witnesses said students jumped out the windows of the building to escape during the shooting.
The seminary serves some 400 high school students and young 'Israeli' soldiers, many of whom carry arms.
After the shooting, hundreds of seminary students demonstrated outside the building chanting against Ehud Olmert, 'Israel's' prime minister and many were seen crying.
Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland said the shooting was a psychological blow to many 'Israelis' as the area is a cultural and ideological centre of Al Quds and people will definitely feel vulnerable that an attack took place in a deeply religious area.
In the streets of Gaza, thousands of Palestinians celebrated, with people firing into the air and sounding their horns.
An 'Israeli' military onslaught in Gaza martyred more than 120 Palestinians in the past week, mostly women and children.
Mark Regev, 'Israel's' government spokesman, told The Associated Press what he called tonight's massacre in Al Quds "a defining moment."
The attack came a day after Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, persuaded Abbas to return to negotiations with 'Israel'.
Abbas had briefly suspended talks to protest against the 'Israeli' military offensive in Gaza.
While not claiming responsibility for the attack, Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for Hamas, said "this heroic attack in Al Quds is a normal response to the crimes of the occupier and its murder of civilians".
Taher al-Nunu, another spokesman, blamed the attack on Ehud Olmert, the 'Israeli' prime minister, and Ehud Barak, the war minister.
"We have warned before about the responsibility of the escalation in Gaza and warned of Palestinian anger," he said.
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general condemned the attack but the UN Security Council failed to agree on a statement at a contentious emergency meeting. The US and 'Israel' blamed Libya for the failure, saying it wanted to link any condemnation of the shooting to its own resolution pressing for censure of 'Israel' over its deadly land and air assault on the Gaza Strip last week.
Al Jazeera's John Terrett, reporting from the UN, said up to four countries wanted to link the Gaza and Al Quds violence and the meeting broke down when the American delegation left over that.
Dan Gillerman, 'Israel's' ambassador to the UN, then told reporters outside that Libya should not be on the council.
Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya's envoy, hit back, saying his country did not need a certificate of good conduct from what he said was the 'Israeli' terrorist regime.
The Zionist entity is witnessing one of its worst moments after it got an overwhelming strike in its heart, the center of Zionism.
'Israeli' occupation police were placed on a state of alert and upped security measures in Al Quds(Jerusalem) on Friday after the heroic operation in the Jewish religious school. "We brought in a large number of forces for the security of residents," the city's police chief Aharon Franco told military radio the morning after a Palestinian gunman opened fire inside the school. Police was in a "general state of alert" throughout the country, he said.
At least eight 'Israeli' settlers are dead and 35 wounded after an armed man opened fire at Merkaz Harav Yeshiva, a Jewish seminary in the western part of Al Quds.
The attacker entered a library where about 80 religious settlers were gathered at the yeshiva, or religious school, and killed eight on Thursday.
He was reportedly shot dead by a student and a soldier.
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. Many of its students are on special courses that combine religious study with service in combat units in the 'Israeli' army.
No group has officially claimed responsibility for the attack - the first in Al Quds in more than four years when a martyrdom bomber killed eight people and himself aboard a bus - but Hamas praised the attack as "heroic" and said it would not be the last.
In Beirut, Al-Manar TV Channel announced that those responsible were members of a previously unknown group called "Phalange of Free Men of Galilee - Groups of the Martyr Imad Moghniyeh and Martyrs of Gaza." The claim was made in a tag line running across the bottom of the screen, and no further details were immediately given.
"The responsibility for the massacre lies with the governments of 'Israel', which for years have displayed weakness and exhaustion and have seen to the armament of the enemy," the Yesha Rabbinical Council wrote in a stinging rebuke of the 'Israeli' leadership following the Thursday's deadly attack.
The seminary, located in the Kyriat Moshe neighbourhood, is a well-known centre for Jewish studies linked to those leading the Jewish settler movement in the occupied West Bank.
Micky Rosenfeld, an 'Israeli' police spokesman, said the attacker walked through the seminary's main gate and entered the library.
He carried an assault rifle and pistol, and used both weapons in the attack, spraying dozens of bullets. At least six empty bullet clips were found on the floor, he said.
'Israeli' war officials said the attacker came from east Al Quds, the predominantly Arab section of the city which 'Israel' captured and occupied in the 1967 war.
In contrast to Palestinians in the West Bank, those in Al Quds have 'Israeli' identification cards, allowing them relatively free movement inside 'Israel'.
Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from the scene of the attack, said that questions would be raised as to how the assailant passed through the many security checks situated in the area.
Witnesses said students jumped out the windows of the building to escape during the shooting.
The seminary serves some 400 high school students and young 'Israeli' soldiers, many of whom carry arms.
After the shooting, hundreds of seminary students demonstrated outside the building chanting against Ehud Olmert, 'Israel's' prime minister and many were seen crying.
Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland said the shooting was a psychological blow to many 'Israelis' as the area is a cultural and ideological centre of Al Quds and people will definitely feel vulnerable that an attack took place in a deeply religious area.
In the streets of Gaza, thousands of Palestinians celebrated, with people firing into the air and sounding their horns.
An 'Israeli' military onslaught in Gaza martyred more than 120 Palestinians in the past week, mostly women and children.
Mark Regev, 'Israel's' government spokesman, told The Associated Press what he called tonight's massacre in Al Quds "a defining moment."
The attack came a day after Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, persuaded Abbas to return to negotiations with 'Israel'.
Abbas had briefly suspended talks to protest against the 'Israeli' military offensive in Gaza.
While not claiming responsibility for the attack, Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for Hamas, said "this heroic attack in Al Quds is a normal response to the crimes of the occupier and its murder of civilians".
Taher al-Nunu, another spokesman, blamed the attack on Ehud Olmert, the 'Israeli' prime minister, and Ehud Barak, the war minister.
"We have warned before about the responsibility of the escalation in Gaza and warned of Palestinian anger," he said.
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general condemned the attack but the UN Security Council failed to agree on a statement at a contentious emergency meeting. The US and 'Israel' blamed Libya for the failure, saying it wanted to link any condemnation of the shooting to its own resolution pressing for censure of 'Israel' over its deadly land and air assault on the Gaza Strip last week.
Al Jazeera's John Terrett, reporting from the UN, said up to four countries wanted to link the Gaza and Al Quds violence and the meeting broke down when the American delegation left over that.
Dan Gillerman, 'Israel's' ambassador to the UN, then told reporters outside that Libya should not be on the council.
Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya's envoy, hit back, saying his country did not need a certificate of good conduct from what he said was the 'Israeli' terrorist regime.
