List of massacres in Jerusalem

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

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2021)


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 ^[a]	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

^ 91 people of various nationalities were killed, including Arabs, Britons and Jews, and 46 were injured.^[3]

^ 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.
^ Clarke, Thurston. By Blood and Fire, G. P. Puttnam's Sons, New York, 1981 ^{[page needed]}