Gunman kills 8 in school in Jerusalem
A gunman entered a prominent Jewish seminary in the heart of Jerusalem on Thursday night, killing at least eight students and wounding at least nine others, three of them seriously, the Israeli police said. The gunman, who was killed at the scene, was thought to be either a Palestinian or an Israeli Arab living in Jerusalem. He has not been identified.
Today, when I first saw this news on the internet, I was really shocked. I hadn’t seen any terrible news like this about Israel and Palestine for a long time before I clicked to the link this afternoon. I had thought that maybe Israelis and Palestinians would finally live without conflicts very soon. Then it came. In fact, it was the deadliest attack on Israeli civilians in nearly two years and the first attack inside Jerusalem in four.
I’m also quite concerned about the news. Israelis and Palestinians have been fighting against each other for a long time, ever since the United Nations Special Commission on Palestine (UNSCOP) recommended that Palestine be divided into an Arab state and a Jewish state in 1947. However, things seemed to have turned better since the death of Arafat in 2004. Both sides began to be more and more willing to cooperate and to negotiate, though some extremists and terrorists still want to resolve the conflicts with violence. Now deadly attack happens again, so whether the conflict will be escalated is what I’m worrying about. Will the irritated Israelis take revenge? If they do so, both Israelis and Palestinians will suffer again, because history has told us that those conflicts can easily turn into a terrible and endless loop.
Moreover, I’m quite indignant with the news not only because the attack is so sudden and cruel, but also because the attack happens in a school and kills 8 students! In my mind, attacking children is the cruelest thing on the earth since all the children are totally innocent. They have nothing to do with the conflict, but in the end they get killed because of it. Isn’t that ridiculous and cruel? As a child (hope I can still be regarded as a child), I’m sympathetic to the students who were killed or wounded, while indignant with the news. Terrorism and extremism are bad enough, and terrorism towards young children is too much for me. Seeing the pictures of a child being carried onto an ambulance car, with blood all over his body, I feel really upset.
I hope that similar attack will never happen again, and I hope peace will finally come to Israelis and Palestinians, for the children will not suffer anymore then.
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