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This article constitutes a list of massacres occurring in the city of Jerusalem.
List of Massacres
| Name
|
Date
|
Casualties
|
Perpetrator(s)
|
| Jerusalem riots of 66
|
66
|
6000
|
Gessius Florus
|
| Siege of Jerusalem (1099)
|
1099
|
|
First Crusade
|
| Siege of Jerusalem (1244)
|
1244, August 11
|
~5,700[1]
|
Khwarazmians[2]
|
| 1920 Nebi Musa riots
|
1920
|
9
|
Arab rioters
|
| 1948 Ben Yehuda Street bombing
|
1948, February 22
|
58
|
Arab irregulars and British deserters
|
| Hadassah medical convoy massacre
|
1948, April 13
|
79
|
Arab forces
|
| Zion Square refrigerator bombing
|
1975, July 4
|
15
|
 PLO
|
| Ramat Eshkol bus bombing
|
1995, August 21
|
6
|
 Hamas
|
| Jaffa Road bus bombings
|
1996, February 25 - March 3
|
47
|
Hamas
|
| 1997 Mahane Yehuda Market bombings
|
1997, July 30
|
18
|
Hamas
|
| 1997 Ben Yehuda Street Bombing
|
1997, September 4
|
8
|
Hamas
|
| 1997–99 Jerusalem stabbings
|
1997, November 30 – 1999, January 13
|
2-3
|
Chaim Perlman (suspected)
|
| Sbarro restaurant bombing
|
2001, August 9
|
7
|
Hamas
|
| 2001 Ben Yehuda Street Bombings
|
2001, December 1
|
13
|
Hamas
|
| Yeshivat Beit Yisrael massacre
|
2002, March 2
|
12
|
al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
|
| Hebrew University massacre
|
2002, July 31
|
9
|
Hamas
|
| Mercaz HaRav massacre
|
2008, March 6
|
9
|
Alaa Abu Dhein
|
| 2014 Jerusalem synagogue attack
|
2014, November 18
|
8
|
|
| 2023 Neve Yaakov shooting
|
2023, January
|
7
|
a Palestinian gunman
|
References[edit]
- ^ Scott Parker, The Indigenous Christians of the Arabic Middle East in an Age of Crusaders, Mongols, and Mamlūks (1244–1366), PhD diss. (University of London, 2012), p. 45.
- ^ Peter Jackson (ed.), The Seventh Crusade, 1244–1254: Sources and Documents (Ashgate, 2007), p. 17.
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