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*On 23 July 1942 (Av 9, AM 5702), the mass deportation of Jews from the [[Warsaw Ghetto]] to [[Treblinka]] began.<ref name="TheUs" />
*The [[AMIA bombing]] on the Jewish community center in [[Buenos Aires]], killed 85 and injured 300 on 18 July 1994 (10 Av, AM 5754).<ref>{{cite news|last=Kreiman|first=Claudia|title=Grief and Consolation in the Month of Av (Isaiah 40:1–26)|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-claudia-kreiman/grief-and-consolation-in-_b_3605073.html|date=15 September 2013|agency=Huffington Post}}</ref>
*The 2005 [[Israeli disengagement from Gaza]], according to some [[Religious Zionism|Religious Zionist]] rabbis like [[Yaakov Ariel]] and [[Dov Lior]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=יהדות, שיעורים, זמנים |url=https://www.yeshiva.org.il/?ignoreuniversal=1 |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=אתר ישיבה |language=he}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=יהדות, שיעורים, זמנים |url=https://www.yeshiva.org.il/?ignoreuniversal=1 |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=אתר ישיבה |language=he}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2006-10-05 |title=גוש קטיף וט' באב {{!}} שאל את הרב |url=https://www.kipa.co.il/%D7%A9%D7%90%D7%9C-%D7%90%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%91/%d7%92%d7%95%d7%a9-%d7%a7%d7%98%d7%99%d7%a3-%d7%95%d7%98-%d7%91%d7%90%d7%91/ |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=כיפה |language=he-IL}}</ref> [[Kinah|Kinnot]] have been composed about the withdrawal,<ref>{{Cite web |title=קינות גוש קטיף לתשעה באב – מוזיאון גוש קטיף |url=https://gushkatifmuseum.com/%d7%a7%d7%99%d7%a0%d7%95%d7%aa-%d7%92%d7%95%d7%a9-%d7%a7%d7%98%d7%99%d7%a3-%d7%9c%d7%aa%d7%a9%d7%a2%d7%94-%d7%91%d7%90%d7%91/ |access-date=2024-06-21 |language=he-IL}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=קינה על גוש קטיף • הקול היהודי |url=https://www.hakolhayehudi.co.il/item/Jewish_life/%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%A2%D7%9C_%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A9_%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A3 |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=• הקול היהודי |language=he}}</ref> and the connection to Tisha b'Av was emphasized in 10-year anniversary commemorations.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ben-Porat |first=Ido |date=Jul 21, 2015 |title='Disengagement Joins 5 Tragedies of Tisha B'Av' |url=https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/198429 |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=www.israelnationalnews.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-08-03 |title=Revisiting the Gaza Withdrawal, 10 Years Later |url=https://forward.com/israel/318228/gaza-withdrawal-10-years-later/ |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=The Forward |language=en}}</ref> The disengagement's timing lent itself to symbolic interpretation both by Religious Zionists and by wider Jewish culture.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fine |first=Steven |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YR4_DQAAQBAJ |title=The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel |date=2016-11-21 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-08879-5 |pages=221-222 |language=en}}</ref> However, even within Religious Zionism, [[Chaim Navon]] holds that the disengagement did not rise to the level of a calamity<ref>{{Cite web |title=יהדות, שיעורים, זמנים |url=https://www.yeshiva.org.il/?ignoreuniversal=1 |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=אתר ישיבה |language=he}}</ref> and [[Shlomo Aviner]] has written that mourning the disengagement on Tisha b'Av is forbidden because it incites political division.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-07-27 |title=במה לעסוק בט' באב? הרב אבינר משיב |url=https://www.kipa.co.il/%D7%99%D7%94%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%97%D7%92%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%AA%D7%A9%D7%A2%D7%94-%D7%91%D7%90%D7%91/1096594-%D7%91%D7%9E%D7%94-%D7%9C%D7%A2%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A7-%D7%91%D7%98-%D7%91%D7%90%D7%91-%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%91-%D7%90%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A8-%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%91/ |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=כיפה |language=he-IL}}</ref> [[Yona Metzger]], then [[Chief Rabbi of Israel|Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel]], ruled in 2006 that the disengagement was a tragedy but mourning rituals should not be integrated into Tisha b'Av,<ref>{{Cite web |title=קביעת תענית וקינות על חורבן גוש קטיף |url=https://zomet.org.il/thumin/%D7%A7%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%AA-%D7%AA%D7%A2%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A2%D7%9C-%D7%97%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%9F-%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A9-%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A3-2/ |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=צומת |language=he-IL}}</ref> while [[Howard Jachter]] permits it in narrow fashion.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gray Matter IV, Israel, Gush Katif Fasting and Kinnot 1 |url=https://www.sefaria.org/Gray_Matter_IV,_Israel,_Gush_Katif_Fasting_and_Kinnot.1 |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=www.sefaria.org}}</ref>
While the [[Holocaust]] spanned a number of years, most religious communities use Tisha B'Av to mourn its 6,000,000 Jewish victims, in addition to or instead of the secular [[Holocaust Memorial Days]] such as [[Yom HaShoah]]. On Tisha B'Av, communities which otherwise do not modify the traditional prayer liturgy have added the recitation of special ''[[kinnot]]'' related to the [[Holocaust]].<ref name=":0" />
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