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| The '''Hebron massacre''' refers to the unprovoked murder by Arabs of 68 Jews in Hebron. | |||
| On ], ] leaders proposed to provide defense for 600 Jews of the Old '']'' in ], or to help them evacuate. However, the leaders of the anti-Zionist community declined these offers, insisting that they trusted the ''A'yan'' (Arab notables) to protect them. | |||
| The next Friday, ], Arabs, inflamed by rumors that two Arabs had been killed by Jews, started an attack on Jews in the ]. The violence quickly spread to other parts of Palestine. ''(See also: ']')'' | |||
| The worst killings occurred in ] and ]. In Hebron, Arab mobs killed 65-68 Jews<ref name=forward></ref>, wounded 58, and raped women. The lone British policeman in the town, Raymond Cafferata, was overwhelmed, and the reinforcements he called for did not arrive for 5 hours (leading to bitter recriminations). | |||
| Cafferata later testified that: | |||
| : "On hearing screams in a room I went up a sort of tunnel passage and saw an Arab in the act of cutting off a child's head with a sword. He had already hit him and was having another cut, but on seeing me he tried to aim the stroke at me, but missed; he was practically on the muzzle of my rifle. I shot him low in the groin. Behind him was a Jewish woman smothered in blood with a man I recognized as a police constable named Issa Sherif from Jaffa in mufti. He was standing over the woman with a dagger in his hand. He saw me and bolted into a room close by and tried to shut me out-shouting in Arabic, "Your Honor, I am a policeman." ... I got into the room and shot him." | |||
| Many Jews survived by hiding in their Arab neighbors' houses and were later evacuated from to Jerusalem. The other major centers of violence were in Safed, where 18 Jews were killed in a brief attack. | |||
| During the week of riots, the fatalities were: | |||
| * Killed: 133 Jews, 116 Arabs. | |||
| * Wounded: 339 Jews, 232 Arabs. | |||
| On ], Sir John Chancellor condemned "the atrocious acts committed by bodies of ruthless and bloodthirsty evildoers... murders perpetrated upon defenseless members of the Jewish population... accompanied by acts of unspeakable savagery." | |||
| Jabotinsky denied involvement in the affair, but later in 1929, while he was on a world lecture tour, he was denied reentry into Palestine by the British authorities.<ref>Zertal, 2005, p. 213; Sicker, 2000, p. 80.</ref>. | |||
| ==Survivor accounts== | |||
| One person who survived the Hebron massacre was Rabbi ]. He was a student in the ] and accuses the Zionists of being responsible for the massacre, by provoking the Arabs. | |||
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