2017–2020 Qatif unrest

2017–2020 Qatif unrest
	Part of the Qatif conflict
Date	12 May 2017 – 7 January 2020; (2 years, 7 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
Location	Qatif and Awamiya, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Status	Saudi victory
Belligerents
Saudi Arabia	Hezbollah Al-Hejaz (Suspected) ; Other Shia Militias; Supported by:; Saraya al-Mukhtar; Bahraini Militias
Units involved
Saudi Arabian National Guard; Presidency of State Security Saudi Emergency Force; Local police units	Shia Militias
Casualties and losses
21 killed (Saudi claim) ; 40+ wounded	5 killed (activists' claim) ; 16 killed (Saudi claim) ; 40+ wounded
	12–25 civilians killed (activists' claim); Thousands of civilians displaced

The 2017–2020 Qatif unrest was a phase of conflict in the Qatif region of Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, between Saudi security forces and the local Shia community, that arose sporadically starting in 1979, including a series of protests and repression during the 2011–12 Saudi Arabian protests.

This phase of the conflict began after an incident on 12 May 2017, when a child and a Pakistani man were shot and killed. The detention of Qatif human rights activist Israa al-Ghomgham and her husband and the possible beheading of al-Ghomgham as the first Saudi woman to be executed for her human rights activities gained international attention during 2018. On 31 January 2019, the Saudi authorities confirmed in a public statement that they would not seek the imposition of the death penalty against al-Ghomgham.

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