Cave of the Patriarchs massacre

When

25 Feb 1994

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

29

Coordinates

31.52° N, 35.11° E

Description

mass shooting committed by American-Israeli Baruch Goldstein

1994 shooting massacre in Hebron

On 25 February 1994, Baruch Goldstein, an American-Israeli physician and member of the far-right ultra-Zionist Kach movement, carried out a mass shooting of Palestinians who were praying in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. Goldstein, dressed in Israeli army uniform, opened fire with an assault rifle and killed 29 people, including children as young as 12, and wounded 125 others.

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