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مجزرة الحرم الإبراهيمي
Exact day25 February 1994
Hebron
At dawn prayer on 25 February 1994, the fifteenth day of Ramadan, the Israeli settler Baruch Goldstein opened fire on worshippers in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, killing twenty-nine. The Security Council condemned the massacre and its aftermath, which took the lives of more than fifty Palestinian civilians.
Linked context in the legacy record
On 25 February 1994, the fifteenth day of Ramadan, Baruch Goldstein, an Israeli settler, army reservist and doctor, waited until the worshippers in the Ibrahimi Mosque were prostrate in prayer and opened fire on them, killing twenty-nine and wounding dozens. The gates of the mosque were closed, keeping survivors in and help out; with the clashes that followed, the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee counts fifty dead.
Link to this chapterHebron Rehabilitation Committee · section: Page text
Editorial paraphrase · enOn the fifteenth of Ramadan 1414, Goldstein opened fire on worshippers in prostration, killing 29; the gates were closed; the dead reached 50 after the clashes.
Link to this citationOn 18 March 1994 the Security Council, in resolution 904, strongly condemned the massacre in Hebron and its aftermath, which took the lives of more than fifty Palestinian civilians and injured several hundred others. Israel closed the mosque for months, then took more than half of it and made it a synagogue.
Link to this chapterPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · paragraph: 1
Editorial paraphrase · enStrongly condemns the massacre in Hebron and its aftermath, which took the lives of more than fifty Palestinian civilians and injured several hundred others.
Link to this citationHebron Rehabilitation Committee · section: Page text
Editorial paraphrase · enIsrael closed the sanctuary for months, then seized more than half of it and made it a synagogue.
Link to this citationSources & evidence
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photograph · Wikimedia Commons
The photograph shown with this event: The Ibrahimi Mosque, Hebron.
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article · Hebron Rehabilitation Committee
Account by the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee.
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document · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
Security Council resolution 904, as held by the Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question.
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25 February 1994 · day
02-25 · occurrence
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