3 Israeli students killed by gunman; Israel’s West Bank raids go on
An Israeli Army jeeps patrols along the barbed wire fence that separates the northern outskirts of Jerusalem with the West Bank, near the Kalandia checkpoint Tuesday May 28, 2002. The decision to build the fence around Jerusalem came after repeated Palest
JERUSALEM, May 28 — A Palestinian infiltrator shot and killed three Israeli students Tuesday at an Orthodox Jewish high school in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, near the Palestinian city of Nablus, settlers and rescue service officials said. The attacker was shot and killed, they said. The violence came amid repeated Israeli incursions into Palestinian towns in the West Bank.
HEZI KATOA, a rescue service worker, told Israel Radio that three students were killed and another wounded by gunfire.
“We found one wounded student who had been hit by a number of bullets in the chest. An army doctor pronounced him dead,” he said. “We heard about two other students wounded in the school compound. When we got there, we found two of them lying behind the building with bullet wounds all over their bodies. All our efforts to revive them failed.”