Palestinians massacre 8 students in Jerusalem library
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The Mercaz HaRav massacre, also called the Mercaz HaRav shooting, was a shooting attack that occurred on 6 March 2008, in which a lone gunman shot multiple students at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, a religious school in Jerusalem, Israel. Eight students and the shooter were killed and ten more were wounded, five of them in serious to critical condition. The attack began at 8:36 p.m. local time and ended about twenty minutes later
* Yochai Lifshitz, 18, from Jerusalem
* Yonatan Yitzhak Eldar, 16, from Shilo
* Yehonadav Haim Hirschfeld, 19, from Kohav Hashahar
* Neria Cohen, 15, also from the capital
* Segev Peniel Avihail, 15, from Neve Daniel
* Avraham David Moses, 16, from Efrat
* Ro'i Roth, 18, from Elkana
* Doron Meherete, 26, from Ashdod
the Palestinian National Authority daily newspaper, Al-Hayat al-Jadida, honored the shooter with the status of Shahid, meaning martyr. The paper also prominently placed a picture of the gunman on the front page, with the caption, "The Shahid Alaa Abu D'heim." In a front-page article on the killings, his act is again defined as a "Shahada achieving" action