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class="caption"><small>Celebrants dressed as Baruch Goldstein </small><br></div> </div></font> <div class="bodytext">Militant Jews have gathered at the grave of Baruch Goldstein to celebrate the sixth anniversary of his massacre of Muslim worshippers in Hebron. <p> The celebrants dressed up as the gunman, wearing army uniforms, doctor's coats and fake beards. </div><br clear="all"></font><table cellspacing="2" align="RIGHT" width="154" border="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td> <font face="sans-serif" size="2"><div class="inlineimage"> <img alt="Graveside party" vspace="0" border="0" width="150" height="180" src="/web/20090801045341im_/http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/685000/images/_685792_grave150.jpg"><br clear="all"> <div class="caption"><small>Israeli settlers read prays at the grave</small><br></div> </div></font> </td></tr></table><font face="sans-serif" size="2"><div class="bodytext"> Goldstein, an immigrant from New York City, had been a physician in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba. <p>Waving semi-automatic weapons in the air, the celebrants danced, sang and read prayers around his grave. <p> "We decided to make a big party on the day he was murdered by Arabs," said Baruch Marzel, one of about 40 celebrants. <p> The tribute was a macabre twist on the Jewish festival of Purim, when it is a custom to dress in costume and celebrate. <p> <b>Massacre in mosque</b> <p> In 1994 on Purim, Goldstein stormed a mosque and fired on praying Muslims in the West Bank city's Tomb of the Patriarchs - a shrine sacred to both Muslims and Jews. <p> Twenty-nine people died in the attack, and the angry crowd lynched Goldstein in retaliation. <p> Israeli extremists continue to pay homage at his grave in the nearby Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, where a marble plaque reads: "To the holy Baruch Goldstein, who gave his life for the Jewish people, the Torah and the nation of Israel." <p> About 10,000 people had visited the grave since the massacre, Mr Marzel said. <p> </div> </font> 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