- Title: West Bank-Jerusalem: Clashes After Hebron Mosque Killing
- Date: 26th February 1994
- Summary: Israel tried to stem Palestinian rage on February 26 after the massacre by a US-born Jewish settler of dozens of Arab worshippers in the city of Hebron. The army poured reinforcements into the West Bank and Gaza Strip, sealing off the occupied territories from Israel in an attempt to prevent revenge attacks. At least 56 people died when Baruch Goldstein sprayed worshippers at a mosque with automatic gunfire. Clashes took place at the Aruba camp and Beit Umar village. The Palestinians set-light to tyres and erected road blocks. Meanwhile, women staged a sit-in and blocked the Salah A-din road in East Jerusalem. Clashes continued in the Shoafat refugee camp where youths threw stones at Israeli soldiers, who retaliated with rubber bullets and teargas. The army said Goldstein, a religious Jew, who, in a radio interview, once described Arabs as Nazis, acted alone when he entered the mosque in Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs at dawn and gunned down worshippers at the start of the holy month of Ramadan. He was beaten to death by Arabs after firing four or five clips of ammunition, police said.
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- Location: ISRAEL WEST BANK JERUSALEM HEBRON
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