CONDEMNATION BLOCKED
A member of the Libyan delegation, speaking to reporters after the extraordinary Security Council meeting, said the council should not speak about the Jerusalem attack while ignoring the Gaza situation.
"If the council should take any action, it should be a balanced action and should condemn the killing in Gaza as well as the killing in Jerusalem," the Libyan envoy said.
Israel's enemy Libya is one of the 15 Security Council members. It was elected to the council last year, after Washington dropped its objections, and joined it in January.
Witnesses said the gunman entered the crowded seminary and fired an automatic weapon at students in its library before he was shot dead by an off-duty army officer.
Jerusalem police chief Aharon Franco said the attacker had used a cardboard box to hide his gun.
Emergency worker Yerach Tucker said bloodied students ran out of the seminary. "I went into the library and there were youngsters lying there, dead with bibles - with holy books in their hands," Tucker told reporters.
In addition to those killed, at least 10 people were wounded, three of them seriously, emergency workers said.
It was the highest Israeli death toll since April 17, 2006, when 11 people were killed and over 60 wounded in a suicide bombing during the Passover holiday in Tel Aviv.
Outside the seminary, a crowd shouted "Death to the Arabs".
In Gaza, Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said the group "blesses the heroic operation in Jerusalem, which was a natural reaction to the Zionist massacre". A loudspeaker in Gaza City blared the message: "This is God's vengeance."
The attack in Jerusalem came hours after inconclusive talks in which Egypt sought to broker a truce between Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders and Israel to halt a surge in violence.
