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Revision as of 13:48, 6 August 2002 by Uriyan (talk | contribs) (Added details)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Baruch Goldstein was an American-born physician and a settler in Hebron, then under Israeli military control (it was handed over to the Palestinian Authority in 1998). Armed with a machine gun and dressed as an Israeli solider, he killed some 29 Palestinians praying in the Cave of the Patriarchs, a Hebron site holy both to Jews and Muslims, on February 25, 1994. He was then beaten to death by Palestinians.
Widely condemned, he nevertheless became a hero among Israel's right-wing extremists, in particular the banned Kach organization, to which he belonged.
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