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The First Intifada (Arabic: الانتفاضة الأولى, romanized: al-Intifāḍa al-’Ūlā, lit. 'The First Uprising'), also known as the First Palestinian Intifada, [4] [6] was a sustained series of non-violent protests, acts of civil disobedience and riots carried out by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and Israel.
The First Intifada, a mass Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories between 1987 and 1991, had a wide-ranging impact within Israel. The Israeli government acted at first to forcibly suppress the Intifada, before later moving towards a strategy that placed more emphasis on de-escalation and eventually ...
In early December 1987, four Palestinians were killed when an Israeli truck driver ran them over. The accident sparked a significant wave of protests, strikes, boycotts, and acts of civil disobidience across Palestine, the largest in Palestinian history since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967, known as the First Intifada. [17]
In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict context, it refers to uprising by Palestinian people against Israeli occupation or Israel, involving both violent and nonviolent methods of resistance, including the First Intifada (1987–1993) and the Second Intifada (2000–2005). [5] [6] [7]
The first Palestinian Intifada (uprising) erupted in December 1987 and lasted until the Madrid Conference of 1991, despite Israeli attempts to suppress it. It was a partially spontaneous uprising, but by January 1988, it was already under the direction from the PLO headquarters in Tunis, which carried out ongoing terrorist attacks targeting ...
Across the dusty villages of the occupied West Bank, where Israeli water pipes don’t reach, date palms have been left to die. Palestinians say they can barely get enough water to bathe their ...
Israel's military blew up more than 30 water wells in Gaza this month, a municipality official and residents said, adding to the trauma of air strikes that have turned much of the Palestinian ...
The protest kicked off around 2:30 p.m., when university officials said a group of "several hundred" protesters entered the campus and "began surrounding and ultimately barricaded" the Physical ...