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On 6 March 2008, a lone Palestinian gunman shot multiple students1 at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, a religious school in West Jerusalem. Eight students and the assailant were killed. Eleven more were wounded, five of them placed in serious to critical condition. The attack began at 8:30 p.m. local time and ended sixteen minutes later. The attacker was stopped by long-time Mercaz HaRav student Yitzhak Dadon and off-duty Israel Defense Forces Captain David Shapira, who killed the perpetrator with their personal firearms. The attack itself was praised by Hamas and, according to a subsequent poll, was supported by 84 percent of the Palestinian population, the highest result showing support for violence in 15 years, which the pollster concluded was the result of recent actions by Israel in Gaza and the West Bank. It was condemned in official statements by various countries around the world.
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A Palestinian gunman shot and killed eight students at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva in Jerusalem in March 2008, an attack Hamas later praised. Through 2020 the opening called it "The Mercaz HaRav massacre, also called the Mercaz HaRav shooting." Today's opening never uses "massacre," opening instead with "a lone Palestinian gunman shot multiple students"; the word survives twice elsewhere in the article. It also no longer says most of the eight students killed were 15 or 16 years old. A reader today does not learn the attack's commonly used name, the Mercaz HaRav massacre, or that most of the victims were teenagers.
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