...Hebron, one hundred and thirty-three Jews are…

August 1929 CE

...Hebron, one hundred and thirty-three Jews are massacred and three hundred and thirty-nine wounded; the Arab casualties, mostly at the hands of British security forces, being one hundred and sixteen killed—including at least three women—and two hundred and thirty-two wounded.

Sixty-four Jews in Hebron alone are killed and over fifty injured, most of them from an old Jewish community, largely anti-Zionist; the Arab police "stood passively by while their fellow Muslims moved into the town and proceeded to deeds which would have been revolting among animals," and a still greater slaughter is prevented only by the bravery of one member of the vastly undermanned British police.

Many are saved by their Muslim neighbors.

The Jewish community of Hebron ceases to exist when its surviving members leave for Jerusalem.

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