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List of mass graves in the Middle East)
Mass graves in the Middle East have been the final resting place of people who have died in natural disasters, mass executions, other massacres, and pandemics.
Table: List of mass graves in the Middle East
| Grave or event | Location | Date of event | Victims | Demographics of the dead | Killer or cause | Discovered | Bodies | Graves |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quba mass grave |
Quba, in
Azerbaijan.
|
1918 (suspected) | 400+ | unidentified | disputed | April 2007 - discovered during the building of a stadium. | 400+ | 1 |
| Tantura massacre |
Tantura,
Mandatory Palestine now near 
Israel
Haifa
|
23 May 1948 | 40–200+ |
 Palestinian Arab villagers
|
Israel Defense Forces 
Alexandroni Brigade
|
May 2023 - Forensic Architecture identified 3 graves a beach resort. [1] | none exhumed | 3 |
| Mass graves in Iraq | 
Iraq
|
1983 to 1991 |
Iraqis (often minority groups)
|
2003 | ||||
| COVID-19 pandemic in Iran |
Qom
|
21 February 2020. [a] | disputed |
mostly Iranian
|
COVID-19 | 2020 - Satellite imagery from Qom cemetery | ||
| Gaza Strip mass graves |
Gaza Strip,
State of Palestine
|
2023 to 2024 |
Palestinians in the
Gaza Strip
|
Israel Defense Forces
invasion of the Gaza Strip
|
2023 to 2024 | 7+ |
Details of locations with multiple mass graves
Turkish Invasion of Cyprus
Many mass graves of both
Turkish and
Greek Cypriots were found in
Cyprus after
Turkey invaded the island in 1974.
[4]
[5] On August 3, 14
Greek Cypriot
civilians were executed and buried in a mass grave.
[6] In
Eptakomi 12
Greek Cypriots were found in a mass grave executed with their hands tied.
[7] On the other hand, during the
Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda massacre, 126
Turkish Cypriots including elderly people and children
[8] were murdered by
EOKA B and the inhabitants of the three villages were buried in mass graves with a
bulldozer. The villagers of
Maratha and
Santalaris, 84 to 89 people in total,
[9] were buried in the same grave.
[10] Mass graves were used to bury
Turkish Cypriot victims of
Tochni massacre too.
[5]
See also
- Mass graves in the Gaza Strip
- COVID-19 pandemic in Iran
- List of natural disasters by death toll
- List of epidemics and pandemics
Footnotes
References
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^ Tantura:
- Bethan McKernan, 'UK study of 1948 Israeli massacre of Palestinian village reveals mass grave sites,' The Guardian 25 May 2023.
- Forensic Architecture. "Executions and Mass Graves in Tantura, 23 May 1948". Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- Ofer Aderet, 'We Threw Bodies': Researchers Say Four Mass Graves Dot Site of Arab Village in Israel,' Haaretz 26 May 2023
- Staff, The New Arab (25 May 2023). "Israel's 1948 Tantura massacre: Mass grave sites discovered". The New Arab.
- ^ *Cunningham, Erin; Bennett, Dalton (12 March 2020). "Coronavirus burial pit so vast they're visible from space". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 13 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ Iran is building a massive grave for coronavirus victims on YouTube. published on 13 March 2020 by The Washington Post
- ^ Zikakou, Ioanna (4 September 2015). "Mass Greek-Cypriot Grave Found in Occupied Cyprus | GreekReporter.com". Retrieved 9 June 2020.
- ^ a b "Mass grave of massacred Turkish Cypriots found in Cyprus". worldbulletin.net/ (in Turkish). Retrieved 9 June 2020.
- ^ Karadimas, Nektarios (28 June 2016), "Agios Vasilios in Lakonia", The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., p. 1, doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah30180, ISBN 978-1-4443-3838-6
- ^ "Bones don't speak". the Guardian. 15 April 2008. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
- ^ "CYPRUS: Ankara's Slow Nibble". Time. 16 September 1974. Archived from the original on 22 December 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
- ^ "The Victoria Advocate – Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ Oberling, Pierre (1982). The Road to Bellapais: The Turkish Cypriot Exodus to Northern Cyprus. Social Science Monographs. ISBN 978-0-88033-000-8.
