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The Second Intifada (Arabic: الانتفاضة الثانية, romanized: al-Intifāḍa aṯ-Ṯāniya, lit. 'The Second Uprising'; Hebrew : האינתיפאדה השנייה , romanized : ha-Intifada ha-Shniya ), also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada , [ 11 ] was a major uprising by Palestinians against Israel and its occupation from 2000.
The Independence Intifada or the Second Sahrawi Intifada (intifada is Arabic for "uprising") and also May Intifada [3] is a Sahrawi activist term for a series of disturbances, demonstrations and riots that broke out in May 2005 [citation needed] in the Moroccan-controlled parts of Western Sahara and south of Morocco.
The following is a partial list of Israeli civilian casualties of the Second Intifada.The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (IPICT) puts civilian deaths at 78% and Israeli combatants at 22%, between 27 September 2000 and 1 January 2005.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 2002 Israeli military operation Operation Defensive Shield Part of the Second Intifada Israeli soldiers taking cover behind an M113 APC in Qalqilya, April 2002 Date March 29 – May 10, 2002 Location Israeli-occupied West Bank (Palestinian territories) Result Inconclusive IDF withdraws from the ...
[a] A 2007 study of Palestinian suicide bombings during the Second Intifada (September 2000 through August 2005) found that 39.9% of the suicide attacks were carried out by Hamas, 26.4% by Fatah, 25.7% by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), 5.4% by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and 2.7% by other organizations. The ...
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]
[18] [19] [20] [n 1] The uprising became known as the Second Intifada; it lasted over four years and cost around 4,000 lives, over 3,000 of them Palestinian. [22] The Netzarim junction, where the shooting took place, is known locally as the al-Shohada (martyrs') junction. It lies on Saladin Road, a few kilometres south of Gaza City.
Battles of the Second Intifada (1 C, 5 P) S. Second Intifada casualties (3 C, 7 P, 1 F) Pages in category "Second Intifada"