# List of massacres in the Palestinian territories

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in the Palestinian territories (East Jerusalem, West Bank and the Gaza Strip) after the 1948 Palestine war.
* For massacres in Israel, see List of massacres in Israel.
* For massacres of (and by) Palestinians in Lebanon see List of massacres in Lebanon
* For organised mob violence against civilians see Pogroms in the Middle East
* For massacres that took place during the 1948 Palestine War, see Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine War, for related context see Nakba.
* For massacres that took place in Mandatory Palestine, see List of massacres in Mandatory Palestine.
* For massacres that took place prior to the British Mandate, see List of massacres in Ottoman Syria and List of massacres in Roman Judea.

## Massacres in the Occupied Palestinian territories

| Name | Date | Location | Responsible Party | Deaths | Notes |
| Qibya massacre | 14 October 1953 | Qibya, Jordanian-occupied West Bank | Israel Defense Forces | 69 | Qibya was the target of an Israeli raid by Unit 101 under the command of Ariel Sharon, which resulted in the deaths of some 69 unarmed Palestinian civilians. |
| Kafr Qasim massacre | 29 October 1956 | Kafr Qasim, Israeli side of the Green Line | Israeli Border Police | 49 | A wartime curfew was imposed without the knowledge of many workers out in the fields. The victims were killed as they were attempting to return home from work. |
| Khan Yunis massacre | 3 November 1956 | Khan Yunis, Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip | Israel Defense Forces | 275+ | Palestinians killed in house-to-house search for fedayeen |
| Rafah massacre | 12 November 1956 | Rafah, Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip | Israel Defense Forces | 111+ | Male Palestinian villagers suspected of supporting Palestinian guerrillas |
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| Cave of the Patriarchs massacre | 25 February 1994 | Hebron | Israeli settler Baruch Goldstein | 29 | 29 Muslims praying inside the Ibrahimi Mosque were killed with 125 more wounded. |
| Ibrahim al-Maqadma Mosque missile strike | 3 January 2009 | Beit Lahia | Israeli Air Force | 16 | |
| 2011 Itamar attack | 11 March 2011 | Itamar | Two Palestinians | 5 | Both parents and three children of one family stabbed to death in their home, one infant decapitated. |
| Wehda Street massacre | 16 May 2021 | Gaza Strip | Israeli Defense Forces | 44 | Israeli forces bombed al-Wehda Street, a densely populated residential and commercial neighbourhood. |
| Engineer's Building airstrike | 31 October 2023 | Gaza Strip | Israel Defense Forces | 106+ | Human Rights Watch said there was no evidence of any military targets in the area at the time of the attack, making the strike an apparent war crime. |
| Shadia Abu Ghazala School massacre | 13 December 2023 | Gaza Strip | Israeli Ground Forces | 15+ | Eyewitnesses reported the victims had been shot and killed point-blank by Israeli soldiers. |
| Flour massacre | 29 February 2024 | Gaza Strip | Israel Defense Forces | 112+ | Palestinians waiting for food aid killed after shooting by Israeli forces in Gaza. |
| Tel al-Sultan massacre | 26 May 2024 | Gaza Strip | Israel Defense Forces | 40+ | The Israeli Air Force struck Tel al-Sultan, Rafah, setting fire to a Palestinian displacement camp. |
| Nuseirat refugee camp massacre | 8 June 2024 | Gaza Strip | Israel Defense Forces | 274+ | The Nuseirat rescue operation resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp, including women and children, and over 600 injuries. |
| March 2025 Israeli strikes on Gaza | 18 March 2025 | Gaza Strip | Israel Defense Forces | 404+ | Israel launched airstrikes on Gaza after the ceasefire deal officially expired. |

## Massacres in Israeli-occupied Egypt and Syria

| Name | Date | Location | Responsible Party | Deaths | Notes |
| Ras Sedr massacre | 8 June 1967 | Ras Sedr, Egypt | Israeli Army | 52 | during the Six Day War |