[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1060 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1060

 Expressing condolences to the families of the eight people killed and 
   nine people wounded in the library of the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in 
           Jerusalem's Kiryat Moshe quarter on March 6, 2008.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 2008

 Mr. Weiner submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing condolences to the families of the eight people killed and 
   nine people wounded in the library of the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in 
           Jerusalem's Kiryat Moshe quarter on March 6, 2008.

Whereas a gunman walked into a prominent Jewish seminary in Jerusalem with an 
        AK-47 assault rifle and opened fire on students as they read in the 
        library, killing eight and wounding nine;
Whereas the seminary is the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in the Kiryat Moshe quarter at 
        the entrance to Jerusalem, a prestigious center of Jewish studies;
Whereas the seminary shooting was the first major attack by Palestinian 
        terrorists in Jerusalem since a suicide bomber killed eight people on 
        February 22, 2004;
Whereas Hezbollah's Al-Manar satellite TV station in Lebanon said a previously 
        unknown group called the Martyrs of Imad Mughniyeh and Gaza was 
        responsible for the attack;
Whereas about 7,000 Gazans marched in the streets of Jebaliya firing guns in the 
        air in celebration of the attack;
Whereas in the southern town of Rafah, residents distributed sweets to moving 
        cars, and militants fired mortars in celebration; and
Whereas Hamas, the radical Islamic movement that controls Gaza, praised the 
        attack in a statement saying ``It was a natural response to Israeli 
        crimes in Gaza. We bless this act. It won't be the last one'': Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the United States House of Representatives expresses 
its condolences to the families of the eight people killed and nine 
people wounded in the library of the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in 
Jerusalem's Kiryat Moshe quarter on March 6, 2008.
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