What: Extremist Israeli settler Baruch Goldstein attacked Palestinian worshippers at Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque, killing 29 people and injuring 150 others
Where: Hebron, the occupied West Bank
When: 25 February 1994
What happened?
Believed to be the burial place of the prophets Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque is revered within Islam and Judaism. In 1994, the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and the Jewish Purim holiday coincided, causing illegal Jewish settlers and Palestinian Muslims to seek access to the religious site at the same time. On the evening of 24 February, eye witnesses described a disagreement between Jewish settlers and Palestinians, as both groups of worshippers tried to enter the mosque. Although there was no violence, the situation was described as “tense”.
The next day — at around 04:30 — Muslim worshippers went to the mosque for the daily Fajr (dawn) prayers. One Palestinian who attended the mosque that morning, Hosni Issa Al-Rajabeh, recalled the events of the day in an interview with Al Jazeera. Al-Rajabeh described going to the Ibrahimi Mosque with his wife and children: “When we arrived, a settler greeted us and welcomed us into the mosque, which was very strange.” Then, as Al-Rajabeh remembered: “The imam began to read the Sajdah verse [of the Qur’an]. He read for four minutes, and when the first people knelt down, I heard shooting and the power cut out.”
It is now known that the shooting which killed 29 people and injured a further 150 was carried out by extremist Israeli settler Baruch Goldstein. Goldstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, and migrated to Israel in 1983. He lived in the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement, just outside Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Goldstein was a supporter of the extremist rabbi Meir Kahane, an Orthodox Jewish American known for his ultra-nationalist ideology and for founding the Kach party in 1971. Kach advocated the forcible removal of Palestinians from Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt). It also vehemently opposed any territorial concessions by Israel under international peace agreements, staging a sit-in at the Yamit settlement in the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula to prevent the region being handed back to Egypt under the Camp David Accords of 1979. After being elected to the Knesset in 1984, Kahane and his Kach party were declared racist by the Israeli government and banned from future political participation on the grounds of incitement.
Drawing inspiration from Kahane’s ideology, Goldstein had spawned his own history of extremist activity. In 1981, he wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Times, in which he stated: “The harsh reality is if Israel is to avert the kinds of problems found in Northern Ireland today, it must act decisively to remove the Arab minority from its borders.”
In October 1993 — after a series of disruptions for which he was already known to the Israeli authorities — Goldstein poured acid on prayer rugs at the Ibrahimi Mosque, burning large holes in them. He also assaulted six Palestinian worshippers, according to the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU). Later that month, IMEU adds, the Muslim authorities wrote to then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, warning of the “dangers” posed by Goldstein. Rabin’s office reportedly didn’t respond and the Israeli authorities took no action.
It is not known what provoked Goldstein to carry out his massacre of Palestinian worshippers on that day, at that time. It is possible that he was at the Ibrahimi Mosque the evening before the attack, when tensions between Israeli settlers and the Palestinian community were high. He nonetheless entered the mosque with a Galil rifle – an assault weapon similar to the AK-47 – while wearing an Israeli army uniform. After having carried out the massacre, Goldstein tried to flee but was caught and beaten to death by the crowds. As a result, the case never went to trial. His grave in Kiryat Arba has become a shrine for extremists settlers.
Source for the above article - https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190225-remembering-hebrons-ibrahimi-mosque-massacre/
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