page_title: Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
section_title: Palestinian public
hierarchical_section_title: Cave of the Patriarchs massacre / Response / Palestinian public
caption_attribution_description: English: Israeli Army and Border Police troops stop Palestinians from entering Al-Shuhada' St. during the demonstration during the 20th anniversary of closing Al-Shuhada (Martyr's) St. in the old city of Hebron. Where it's been closed since 1994 after the Massacre of Hebron where 29 Palestinian where killed by an Israeli man. العربية: قوات الجيش وحرس الحدود الإسرائيلي تمنع متظاهرين فلسطينيين من دخول شارع الشهداء المغلق منذ العام 1994 خلال الذكرى العشرين لمذبحة الحرم الإبراهيمي.
context_page_description: The Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, also known as the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre or Hebron massacre, was a shooting massacre carried out by American-Israeli Baruch Goldstein. Goldstein was a member of the far-right Israeli Kach movement. On 25 February 1994, during the overlapping religious holidays of both Jewish Purim and Muslim Ramadan, Goldstein opened fire on a large number of Palestinian Muslims who had gathered to pray inside the Ibrahimi Mosque at the Cave of the Patriarchs compound in Hebron, West Bank. The attack left 29 people dead, several as young as twelve, and 125 wounded. Goldstein was overpowered, disarmed and then beaten to death by survivors.
  The massacre immediately set off mass Palestinian protests throughout the West Bank, and during the ensuing clashes a further 20 to 26 Palestinians were killed, and 120 injured in confrontations with the IDF, while 9 Jews were killed.
  Goldstein was widely denounced in Israel and by communities in the Jewish diaspora, with many attributing his act to insanity. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin condemned the attack, describing Goldstein as a "degenerate murderer", "a shame on Zionism and an embarrassment to Judaism".
context_section_description: Palestinian protesters took to the streets in the aftermath of the massacre. There were widespread protests and clashes in both the occupied territories and within Israel itself, in Nazareth and Jaffa.
  As a reaction to the trauma induced in children in Hebron, the Palestinian Child Arts Center (PCAC), a non-governmental, nonprofit organization was founded. The activities of the centre primarily involve the intellectual development of Palestinian children, and to reinforce a positive role for the child within Palestinian society and culture.
caption: Israeli Army and Border Police troops stop Palestinians from entering Al-Shuhada' St. during the demonstration on the 20th anniversary of the massacre
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