Tensions would later increase as the Israeli government signed the Oslo Accords in September 1993 , which gave limited autonomy to the PLO in the West Bank city of Jericho and the Gaza Strip . The city of Hebron and the rest of the major Palestinian population centers in the West Bank were not included in the initial agreement . The Cave of the Patriarchs massacre committed by Baruch Goldstein , an Israeli-American settler in February 1994 , left 29 Palestinian Muslims dead and scores injured . The resulting riots resulted in a further 35 deaths
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
Cave of the Patriarchs