List of massacres in Jerusalem

This article is a list of massacres that occurred in Jerusalem.

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
King David Hotel bombing 1946 July 22 91 killed [lower-alpha 1]  Irgun
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
Al Aqsa Massacre 1990 October 8 17 Palestinians killed Israeli security forces
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 Two Palestinian gunmen

References
  1. 91 people of various nationalities were killed, including Arabs, Britons and Jews, and 46 were injured.[3]
  1. 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.
  2. Peter Jackson (ed.), The Seventh Crusade, 1244–1254: Sources and Documents (Ashgate, 2007), p. 17.
  3. Clarke, Thurston. By Blood and Fire, G. P. Puttnam's Sons, New York, 1981

See also
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