On October 31, 2020, jihadists from the Islamic State's Central Africa Province (ISCAP) attacked the village of Lisasa, Beni Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing over twenty-one civilians after brief clashes with UPLC Mai-Mai militiamen.

[2] The jailbreak encouraged ADF fighters to continue their rampage in areas of Beni Territory that hadn't seen massacres for four years.

[3] The Lisasa massacre occurred a year and one day after the start of a counter-insurgency campaign by the Congolese government against the ADF.

[2] Prior to the massacre, the village was defended by militiamen of the Mai-Mai group Union of Patriots for the Liberation of the Congo (UPLC).

[4] The preliminary death toll was seventeen civilians killed across all three villages, fifteen of the dead being women.