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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] or the Stone Intifada, was a sustained series of protests, acts of civil disobedience and riots carried out by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and Israel.[7] It was motivated by collective Palestinian frustration over Israel's military occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as it approached a twenty-year mark, having begun in the wake of the 1967 Arab–Israeli War.[8] The uprising lasted from December 1987 until the Madrid Conference of 1991, though some date its conclusion to 1993, with the signing of the Oslo Accords.[4]
The intifada began on 9 December 1987,[9] in the Jabalia refugee camp after an Israeli truck driver collided with a civilian car, killing four Palestinian workers, three of whom were from the Jabalia refugee camp.[10][11] Palestinians charged that the collision was a deliberate response for the killing of an Israeli in Gaza days earlier.[12] Israel denied that the crash, which came at time of heightened tensions, was intentional or coordinated.[13] The Palestinian response was characterized by protests, civil disobedience, and violence.[14][15] There was graffiti, barricading,[16][17] and widespread throwing of stones and Molotov cocktails at the Israeli army and its infrastructure within the West Bank and Gaza Strip. These contrasted with civil efforts including general strikes, boycotts of Israeli Civil Administration institutions in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, an economic boycott consisting of refusal to work in Israeli settlements on Israeli products, refusal to pay taxes, and refusal to drive Palestinian cars with Israeli licenses.
Israel deployed some 80,000 soldiers in response. Israeli countermeasures, which initially included the use of live rounds frequently in cases of riots, were criticized by Human Rights Watch as disproportionate, in addition to Israel's excessive use of lethal force.[18] In the first 13 months, 332 Palestinians and 12 Israelis were killed.[19][20] Images of soldiers beating adolescents with clubs then led to the adoption of firing semi-lethal plastic bullets.[19] During the whole six-year intifada, the Israeli army killed at least 1,087 Palestinians, of which 240 were children.[21]
Among Israelis, 100 civilians and 60 Israeli soldiers were killed,[22] often by militants outside the control of the Intifada's UNLU,[23] and more than 1,400 Israeli civilians and 1,700 soldiers were injured.[24] Intra-Palestinian violence was also a prominent feature of the Intifada, with widespread executions of an estimated 822 Palestinians killed as alleged Israeli collaborators (1988–April 1994).[25] At the time Israel reportedly obtained information from some 18,000 Palestinians who had been compromised,[26] although fewer than half had any proven contact with the Israeli authorities.[27] The ensuing Second Intifada took place from September 2000 to 2005.
- ^ Kober, Avi, Israel's Wars of Attrition: Attrition Challenges to Democratic States, p. 165
- ^ Murphy, Kim (10 September 1993). "Israel and PLO, in Historic Bid for Peace, Agree to Mutual Recognition". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 6 April 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ^ "Profile: Marwan Barghouti" BBC News. 26 November 2009. Accessed 9 August 2011.
- ^ a b c Nami Nasrallah, 'The First and Second Palestinian intifadas,' in David Newman, Joel Peters (eds.) Routledge Handbook on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Routledge, 2013, pp. 56–68, p. 56.
- ^ a b c Kober, Avi. "From Blitzkrieg To Attrition: Israel's Attrition Strategy and Staying Power." Small Wars & Insurgencies 16, no. 2 (2005): 216–240.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Alimi2006_1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Intifada begins on Gaza Strip". HISTORY. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ^ Lockman; Beinin (1989), p. 5.
- ^ Edward Said (1989). Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation. South End Press. pp. 5–22. ISBN 978-0-89608-363-9.
- ^ Berman 2011, p. 41.
- ^ Michael Omer-Man The accident that sparked an Intifada, 12/04/2011
- ^ David McDowall,Palestine and Israel: The Uprising and Beyond, University of California Press, 1989 p. 1
- ^ "The accident that sparked an Intifada". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 4 December 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
- ^ Ruth Margolies Beitler, The Path to Mass Rebellion: An Analysis of Two Intifadas, Lexington Books, 2004 p.xi.
- ^ Lustick, Ian S. (1993). Brynen, Rex; Hiltermann, Joost R.; Hudson, Michael C.; Hunter, F. Robert; Lockman, Zachary; Beinin, Joel; McDowall, David; Nassar, Jamal R.; Heacock, Roger (eds.). "Writing the Intifada: Collective Action in the Occupied Territories". World Politics. 45 (4): 560–594. doi:10.2307/2950709. ISSN 0043-8871. JSTOR 2950709. S2CID 147140028.
- ^ "BBC NEWS". news.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ Walid Salem, 'Human Security from Below: Palestinian Citizens Protection Strategies, 1988–2005,' in Monica den Boer, Jaap de Wilde (eds.), The Viability of Human Security,Amsterdam University Press, 2008 pp. 179–201 p. 190.
- ^ "The Israeli Army and the Intifada – Policies that Contribute to the Killings". www.hrw.org. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ^ a b Audrey Kurth Cronin 'Endless wars and no surrender,' in Holger Afflerbach, Hew Strachan (eds.) How Fighting Ends: A History of Surrender, Oxford University Press 2012 pp. 417–433 p. 426.
- ^ Wendy Pearlman, Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement,Cambridge University Press 2011, p. 114.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
BTFwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ B'Tselem Statistics; Fatalities in the first Intifada.
- ^ Mient Jan Faber, Mary Kaldor, 'The deterioration of human security in Palestine,' in Mary Martin, Mary Kaldor (eds.) The European Union and Human Security: External Interventions and Missions, Routledge, 2009 pp. 95–111.
- ^ 'Intifada,' in David Seddon, (ed.)A Political and Economic Dictionary of the Middle East, Taylor & Francis 2004, p. 284.
- ^ Human Rights Watch, Israel, the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian Authority Territories, November, 2001. Vol. 13, No. 4(E), p. 49
- ^ Amitabh Pal, "Islam" Means Peace: Understanding the Muslim Principle of Nonviolence Today, ABC-CLIO, 2011 p. 191.
- ^ Lockman; Beinin (1989), p. [1]