GUNMAN KILLS SEVEN IN ISRAELI RAID !

The gunman entered the school's dining room and opened fire.

Attack scene

At least seven people have been killed and at least six people wounded by a gunman who infiltrated and attacked a Jewish seminary in West Jerusalem.
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 was then shot dead by Israeli security personnel.
The attack is the worst of its kind for a number of years. There were no attacks within Jerusalem during 2007.
The Palestinian Islamist group, Hamas, praised the attack, calling it "heroic", but did not claim responsibility. There was also celebratory gunfire in Gaza.

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Later, the al-Manar satellite television station of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement reported that a previously unknown group called the "Jalil Freedom Battalions - the Martyrs of Imad Mughniyeh and Gaza" was behind the shooting.
Israeli security forces have been on high alert since Mughniyeh, a senior Hezbollah leader and military commander, was killed in a car bomb in Damascus on 12 February.
Hezbollah blamed Israel, which denied any involvement.
Witnesses said the gunman entered the dining hall at the Mercaz Harav seminary, where about 80 people were gathered, and began firing at its students in every direction for several minutes.
Yaron Tzuker, a medic, said he arrived as the gunfire was still going on.
"They were still shooting when we got here," he told Channel 10 television.

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"We took cover and the ambulance was hit. It's horrible inside - dead bodies and wounded - it's horrific."
Israeli police and military personnel later searched the building and the surrounding area in order to determine whether there had been a second assailant, but Jerusalem's police commander said there had been only one man.
"He hid the weapon in a cardboard box," Aharon Franco told reporters.
Mr Franco said an Israeli army officer who lived nearby had run to the school after hearing gunfire and shot the gunman dead.
Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski told Israeli Channel 2 television: "It's very sad tonight in Jerusalem - many people were killed in the heart of Jerusalem."
An Israeli foreign ministry spokesman said "terrorists are trying to destroy the chances of peace, but we will certainly continue peace talks" with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who also condemned the attack.
"The president condemns all attacks that target civilians, whether they are Palestinian or Israeli," said a statement released by Mr Abbas' office.
The US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, who held talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders earlier this week in an attempt to revive the stalled peace negotiations, condemned the shooting as an "act of terror and depravity".
The Mercaz Harav seminary is a well-known centre for Jewish studies and most students are aged between 18 and 30. It is said to be associated with the leadership of the Jewish settler movement in the West Bank.

In the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, gunmen fired into the air after news broke about the attack. A loudspeaker in Gaza City reportedly broadcast the message: "This is God's vengeance".
A spokesman for Hamas, Sami Abu Zuhri, said the group "blesses the heroic operation in Jerusalem, which was a natural reaction to the Zionist massacre".
The BBC's Crispin Thorold says this will be a particularly shocking incident for the Israeli public and Jewish people around the world - which comes at an extremely tense time. Israel, he says, is likely to take retaliatory action.
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, 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 measures are designed to stamp out frequent rocket fire by Palestinian militants.
Recent rocket attacks have hit deeper into southern Israel, reaching Ashkelon, the closest large city to the Gaza Strip.

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