In February 1994, an American-born Jewish settler in Hebron, Baruch Goldstein, opened fire in al-Haram al-Ibrahim crowded mosque, killing 29 and wounding 125 more.
Additional people were crushed to death in the panic to flee the mosque and in rioting that followed. Goldstein was carrying his IMI Galil assault rifle, four magazines of ammunition, which held 35 bullets each and hand grenades.
More than 400 Muslims were in the mosque for early morning prayers during the holy month of Ramadan. The attacker sneaked into the mosque and hid behind a column as the Muslims were performing their dawn prayers. As they bowed their heads in unison, he opened fire on them with a machine gun. A number of young men were able to get over to where the attacker was and to protect others in the mosque with their bodies.
And within moments Goldstein had been brought to the ground by the young men. But due to the heavy gun fire, the mosque had turned into something on the order of a slaughterhouse, filled with pools of blood.The mosque itself was part of a complex of buildings sacred to both Jews and Muslims, because it was believed to contain the 4,000-year-old burial tomb of Abraham & his wife Sarah. As such, the place had long been a site for religious confrontations. News of the massacre immediately led to riots in Hebron and the rest of the occupied territories and an additional 19 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli Defense Forces within 48 hours of the massacre.
I still have yet to understand how come people don’t care about this.
I still don’t understand how people don’t care about Palestine as much as they cared about Egypt and Libya. Unlike Egypt and Libya, Palestine has been undergoing violence way before most of our parents were born. The massacres and chaos never stops in Palestine. But the world doesn’t care.
Read this, please.
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