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The Shafrir synagogue shooting was an attack which was carried out by Palestinian militants on 11 April 1956. [1] Three Palestinian militants who crossed into Israel from Egypt attacked the study hall of a synagogue while it was full of children and teenagers, in the farming community of Kfar Chabad (Shafrir).
Attacks on synagogues continued into the twenty-first century. The 2002 Lyon synagogue attack occurred on 30 March 2002, involving a group of masked men using two cars to conduct a vehicle-ramming attack in Lyon, France. After ramming the synagogue, the cars were set on fire. The attack caused severe damage to the synagogue.
Date Target Location Perpetrator (motive) Details 11 April 1956 Shafrir synagogue Kfar Chabad, Israel : Palestinian fedayeen (Palestinian nationalism) : Shafrir synagogue shooting: As part of the Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency, three Palestinian militants who crossed into Israel from Egypt attacked the study hall of a synagogue while it was full of children and teenagers, killing 6 people ...
UK and US have condemned the deadly attack, after the gunman was shot dead by Israeli police having fled the scene
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel vowed harsh retaliation Tuesday for a Palestinian attack that left four rabbis hacked or shot to death on the blood-smeared floor of a synagogue in Jerusalem, a major ...
A 13-year-old Palestinian opened fire in east Jerusalem on Saturday, wounding two Israelis, officials said, a day after another attacker killed seven outside a synagogue in the deadliest attack in ...
This is an attack on a podium of the Jewish religion in a synagogue" and "I consider this really shocking." [ 65 ] Peru – The Peruvian government expressed "extreme shock and strong condemnation" over the terrorist attack, which is motivated by "religious intolerance" and "contrary to the civilized coexistence among nations".
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The four men killed by two Palestinian attackers as they worshipped in a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday were rabbis, and all were immigrants to Israel with dual citizenship - three ...