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Cave of the Patriarchs

The Cave of the Patriarchs, known to Muslims as the Ibrahimi mosque, is in the West Bank city of Hebron. In 1994, militant Jewish fundamentalist Baruch Goldstein killed 29 Palestinians at the site.

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