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Attacks (since 1970)

Attack — Jerusalem, Zion Square

4 juill. 1975·Jérusalem, place de Sion

Toll
15

The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.

In July 1975, a refrigerator packed with explosives was abandoned in Zion Square, in the center of Jerusalem, at the hour when the commercial district was at its most crowded. The charge detonated among passersby, killing several people and wounding many more; the facades of neighboring buildings were blown apart.

The method of operation — a bulky, ordinary object left in a busy street — inaugurated a series of attacks targeting the spaces of everyday life rather than military objectives. Zion Square, a pedestrian crossroads in the city center, would be struck again on several occasions in the decades that followed.

Period :
Attacks (since 1970)
Type :
Attack
Region :
Land of Israel
Country :
Terre d'Israël
Sources

Presse israélienne contemporaine ; chronologies des attentats établies par les services israéliens.

At the same place53

  1. v. 925 av. J.-C.Invasion de Sheshonq Iᵉʳ (Shishaq)non chiffré
  2. 597 av. J.-C.First Babylonian Deportation3 023 à 10 000 déportés selon les sources
  3. 586 av. J.-C.Destruction of the First Temple and Jerusalem832 déportés (Jérémie) ; exécutions à Ribla, morts non chiffrés
  4. 312 av. J.-C.Seizure of the city by Ptolemy I on a Sabbath day, when the population refuses to fight; deportation of Jews to Egyptmilliers déportés
  5. 175-172 av. J.-C.Deposition of high priest Onias III, sold by Jason then by Menelaus; assassination of Onias at Daphne and repression of protestersinconnu
  6. 169 av. J.-C.Pillage of the Temple by Antiochos IV upon his return from his Egyptian campaigninconnu
  7. 168 av. J.-C.Expedition of Apolloniosmilliers selon I Maccabées
  8. 162 av. J.-C.The Hasidim come to treat with high priest Alkime are seized and executed the same day60
  9. 63 av. J.-C.Seizure of the Temple by Pompey~12 000 (Josèphe)
  10. 55 av. J.-C.Crassus plunders the Temple treasure before his Parthian campaigntoll not established
  11. 40-37 av. J.-C.Parthian invasion and then siege by Herod and Sossiusinconnu
  12. 26-36Government of Pontius Pilateinconnu

And 41 more in the catalogue.

In the same country32

  1. v. 840 av. J.-C.Prise de Nebo par Mesha de Moab7 000 (stèle de Mesha)
  2. 722 av. J.-C.Fall of Samaria after three years of siege27 290 déportés (annales de Sargon II)
  3. 701 av. J.-C.Campagne de Sennachérib en Juda200 150 déportés (prisme de Sennachérib)
  4. 582 av. J.-C.Assassination of Gedaliah and the Third Deportation80 pèlerins massacrés ; 745 déportés (Jérémie)
  5. 200-198 av. J.-C.Fifth Syrian Warinconnu
  6. 167-160 av. J.-C.Persecutions by Antiochus IV Epiphanesmilliers
  7. 63-61 av. J.-C.After the capture of the Temple, Pompey reduces Jewish territory and takes captives to Rome, nucleus of the Trastevere communitymilliers de captifs
  8. 53 av. J.-C.Cassius takes the city and sells its inhabitants into slavery~30 000 vendus

And 24 more in the catalogue.

Event 2323 of 2483, in chronological order · Attacks (since 1970): 174 events in the catalogue