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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.
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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 2000 Ramallah lynching Aziz Salha, one of the lynchers, waving his blood-stained hands from the police station window. Location Ramallah, Israeli-occupied West Bank Date October 12, 2000 ; 24 years ago (2000-10-12) Attack type Lynching Deaths 2 Israeli military reservists Injured 13 Palestinian ...
The first, named "Day of Equality," on 24 June, was held in protest against alleged discrimination and unequal status in Israeli society. The second, named "Day of Peace," on 21 December, was held in solidarity with the protests by Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories during the First Intifada. [1]
She was about 12 years old when the First Intifada started in 1987. [2] According to her relatives, Idris served on the Am'ari refugee camp's women's committee during the first intifada, where she assisted in food distribution at times of curfew, provided social support and helped prisoners' families. [7]
The word intifada was first used [clarification needed] in modern times in 1952, when Iraqi parties took to the streets to protest their monarchy, which was known as the Iraqi Intifada. [3] Other later examples include the Western Sahara's Zemla Intifada, the First Sahrawi Intifada, and the Second Sahrawi Intifada. [4]
His daughter, 32-year-old journalist Bushra al-Tawil, was among the dozens of women and teenagers released in the first round of prisoner-for-hostage exchanges on Jan. 19. Before her father's release, she wrote on Instagram that Israeli security forces burst into their house near Ramallah at dawn and threatened her with rearrest if her family ...
First Intifada About one-fifth of the 730 attacks during the first four months of the First Intifada were the result of intra-Palestinian political violence. What has been described as a wave of "paranoia" swept the occupied Palestinian territories , leading to the mass killings of suspected collaborators with Israel.