Israeli government to demolish attackers’ homes
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Latest news from Israel shows that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the Middle Eastern country, has promised that his government will respond with a strong hand against the murder of four Jewish rabbis earlier today.
The attack, which took place early on Tuesday, November 18, when two Palestinians rushed into a Synagogue in Western Jerusalem, was done while the Jews were praying. Seen as the worst attack inside Jerusalem since 2008, the two Palestinians wielding a gun, knives and axes stormed the synagogue complex in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of West Jerusalem, and killed the four rabbis in the middle of their prayers. Among the dead was a British citizen.
Netanyahu spoke during a television broadcast on the attack, promising that the attackers’ homes will be demolished. The Israeli leader said his government will carry out the demolition so as to dissuade others from perpetrating such heinous crimes in future. Already about 13 members of the attackers’ families have been arrested.
He said Israel was in the middle of a long drawn war against terror, which had started long ago, but which he was sure his country would eventually win. He spoke in Hebrew language, describing the attackers as human animals. Barrack Obama, the United States of American (USA) President has also condemned the attack in the strongest of terms, describing it as horrific.
The attackers were however killed at the scene of the crime during a gun battle with Israeli policemen who appeared on the scene in less than eight minutes after the men struck. The gun duel left an Israeli Police officer critically wounded.
While mourning for the dead and lamentation for the wounded were going on in Israel, Palestinians in Gaze were seen in celebration as they considered the dead terrorists as heroes.
An Israeli giving eye-witness account said he was horrified by the sights of what he saw. “To see Jews wearing tefillin and wrapped in the tallit lying in pools of blood, I wondered if I was imagining scenes from the Holocaust,” Yehuda Meshi Zahav was reported as having said. A leader and vetran of a religious emergency-response team, Zahav described the attack as “a massacre of Jews at prayer.”
There were also reports of Jews who considered what was playing out in the world as injustice against them, who claimed that whenever such dastardly act was perpetrated against them, that the world would look away as if nothing happened. They express the opinion that the world would be unfair to them if they retaliated.
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