Hebron Massacre
Hebron massacre may refer to: * 1517 Hebron attacks * Battle of Hebron in 1834 * 1929 Hebron massacre, in the 1929 Arab riots in Mandatory Palestine * 1980 Hebron attack * Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, a 1994 mass shooting also known as the Hebron massacre * ''Hebron Massacre'', a 1994 album by Muslimgauze Muslimgauze was the main musical project of Bryn Jones (17 June 1961 – 14 January 1999), a British ethnic electronica and experimental musician who was influenced by conflicts and history in the Muslim world, often with an emphasis on the Isra ...

1517 Hebron Attacks
1517 Hebron attacks occurred in the final phases of the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17), when Turkish Ottoman Empire, Ottomans had ousted the Mamluks and taken Ottoman Syria. The massacre targeted the Jewish population of the city and is also referred to as a pogrom. Events An account of the event, recorded by Japheth ben Manasseh in 1518, mentions how the onslaught was initiated by Turkish troops led by Murad Bey, the deputy of the Sultan from Jerusalem. Jews were attacked, beaten and raped, and many were killed as their homes and businesses were looted and pillaged. It has been suggested that the stable financial position of the Hebronite Jews at the time was what attracted the Turkish soldiers to engage in the mass plunder. Others suggest the pogrom could have in fact taken place in the midst of a localised conflict, an uprising by the Mamluks against the new Ottoman rulers. Those who survived the calamity fled to Beirut and Jews only returned to Hebron 16 years later in 1533. ...
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