intifada, also spelled intifadah, Arabic intifāḍah (“shaking off”), either of two popular uprisings of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip aimed at ending Israel’s occupation of those territories and creating an independent Palestinian state.

How many Israelis died in the intifadas?

During the whole six-year intifada, the Israeli army killed from 1,162 to 1,204 (or 1,284) Palestinians, 241/332 being children. Between 57,000 and 120,000 were arrested, 481 were deported while 2,532 had their houses razed to the ground.

Why did the Hamas form?

1987 – The founding of Hamas In 1987, several Palestinians were killed in a traffic accident involving an Israeli driver, and the events that followed–a Palestinian uprising against Israel’s West Bank and Gaza occupation–led Yassin and six other Palestinians to found Hamas as an offshoot of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.

What caused the Intifada?

The intifada was a total intelligence surprise, and even when it persisted, security personnel and decision makers failed to grasp its significance. Contrary to the claim by the government of Yitzhak Shamir that the PLO initiated the intifada it was a spontaneous outburst caused by economic, social and national factors alike.

What exactly is an intifada?

Etymology. Intifada is an Arabic word literally meaning,as a noun,”tremor”,”shivering”,”shuddering”.

  • History. The concept intifada was first utilized in modern times in 1952 within the Kingdom of Iraq,when socialist and communist parties took to the streets to protest the Hashemite
  • List of events named Intifada.

    • What were the intifadas?

    The First Intifada. The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. It began on 9 December 1987 in the Jabaliya Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip, when an Israeli truck crashed into two vans carrying Palestinian workers killing four of them.

    What was the Second Intifada?

    The Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada (Arabic: انتفاضة الأقصى‎ Intifāḍat al-ʾAqṣā; Hebrew: אינתיפאדת אל-אקצה‎ Intifādat El-Aqtzah) and the Oslo War , was the second Palestinian uprising – a period of intensified Palestinian–Israeli violence, which began in late September 2000 and ended roughly around 2005.