What the records say
- When
- 24 Sep 1996
- Kind
- Riot
- Coordinates
- 31.78° N, 35.23° E
- Description
- Violent confrontations between Israeli forces and Palestinians
Placed at the site its title names, Western Wall Tunnel.
Western Wall Tunnel riots
Violent confrontations between Israeli forces and Palestinians
The Western Wall Tunnel riots erupted on 24 September 1996, lasting primarily for four days, with smaller isolated outbreaks of violence occurring after this period. This conflict was the first between the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) and the newly created Palestinian National Security Forces (NSF).
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorize the opening of an exit in the Arab Quarter of Jerusalem for the Western Wall Tunnel, which prior Prime Minister…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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