Today marks the 30th anniversary of the El-Khalil Mosque massacre, a brutal act of violence that claimed the lives of 67 Palestinian worshippers during morning prayers on February 25th, 1994.

Twenty-six years ago, during Ramadan on February 25, 1994, a massacre was carried out by the invading zionists in the city of El Khalil, Palestine. The slaughter of 67 Muslims and nearly 300 people wounded in the Morning Prayer in the Ibrahim Mosque cannot be forgettable.

City of El Khalil, one of the distinguished city of Palestine in the Prophets region, was second targeted by zionists after Jerusalem. Jews intended to invade Ibrahim Mosque and turn it into a Jewish synagogue.

Muslims gathered in mosque during the Morning Prayer on the 15th of Ramadan, on Fridays, turned to Allah with their immaculate bodies and were hit in a barrage of bullets rain coming from behind while they in ruku and prayed in peace and submission to Allah. 

The world remained silent against the massacre of El Khalil where 67 Muslim martyred and nearly 300 Muslims were wounded. This atrocity was inflicted on the world public by the invaders as a murder committed by an overly religious Jew who was not intellectually sympathetic named Barush Goldstien.

The El Khalil Massacre is one of the planned massacres of the terror network

However, the fact that the massacre was not done by a mysterious zionist monster alone was evident in the expression of witnesses after the massacre. In the following days, a witness of witnesses who had witnessed the day of the massacre conveyed the following:

"While we were making the first rakat, a Jewish person dressed in a military dress came to next to us. There was a headset in his ears. This person began to shoot at us. The second person next to him was filling his gun as the magazine was empty. I have used come to the morning prayers. Other times every day there were thirty forty soldiers here. But on that day there were only seven soldiers at the outer door. There was no one at the inner door, which was constantly seven or eight soldiers were waiting. I did not see any soldiers at that door that morning. When the aggressive Jew started shooting at us, the outside soldiers went in and started throwing tear gas at us."

In the massacre, which was not limited to the assault carried out on the mosque alone, assistance to the injured Muslims was also prevented. It was also witnessed by eyewitnesses and by people who were carrying patients to the hospital when the zionists opened fire.

Backstage of El Khalil Massacre

The "press and broadcast" dogs those tie with Zionism reflected their brutal massacres of occupying zionists in the form of "Individual Action" while Muslim Palestinian people made every effort to accept the independence and existence struggle as "Terrorism". The occupying zionists, however, have been carrying out all these massacres in a planned manner, but have practically resorted to the "Individual Action" method in order to prevent their ugly face from being seen by the world public opinion. It was frequently mentioned by injured Palestinian Muslims that the attacks were planned and prepared.

HAMAS's first statement about the massacre

The Islamic Resistance Movement HAMAS, who condemned the massacre carried out by the terror network on February 25, 1994, made the following comment on that day:

"The massacre carried out by zionist killers in the middle of the blessed Ramadan month, on holy Friday and in the city of Khalilurrahman, took place at the Ibrahim Mosque while Muslims were praying, is a demonstration of their hatred against Islam and Muslims. This massacre was not the only target of the Palestinian people. On the contrary it is clearly an attack directed towards Islamic belief and its civilization."

Who is Barush Goldstien who triggered the first bullet in massacre?

Barush Goldstien is actually a portrayal of the ideology of zionism that holds the Palestinian lands under occupation. That person who was a doctor showed that he was actually a murderer with the massacre he did. Goldstien, a US citizen, settled in the occupied territories and began to sit in the Kiryat Arba jewish settlement of the terrorist nest. This person was a former member of the Kach terrorist organization. He was one of the strictest follower of terrorist rabbi Meir Kahane. The terrorist had also served as reserve officers for three years in zionist army.

The situation of Ibrahim Mosque after the massacre 

After the massacre by the zionists on February 24, 1994, the Ibrahim Mosque (Khalilurrahman Mosque) was kept closed for more than 9 months and when it was reopened its half was organized as a synagogue. Muslims and Jews have the right to use the entire mosque and synagogue on special days of 10 days each year, although the status of the mosque remains the same as agreed with the Hebron Protocol. As in Masjid al-Aqsa, occupation zionists did not allow Muslims to worship in Ibrahim Mosque. Muslims who go to worship to the mosque in the siege are often prevented and being detained. (ILKHA)