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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.
[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 ...
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 ...
[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.
A Hamas militant during the second intifada, Abu Warda helped organize a series of suicide bombings that killed over 40 people and wounded more than a hundred others. Israel arrested him in 2002 ...
The Second Intifada, which started in September 2000, was an escalation of mutual violence.In March 2002, in response to a wave of Palestinian suicide attacks, culminating in the "Passover massacre", Israel launched a major military operation in the West Bank, dubbed Operation Defensive Shield. [3]
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]
The result was violence, both during the second intifada between 2000 and 2005, and in a series of deadly battles between Israel and Hamas in and near Gaza between 2008 and 2014. Indeed, in the ...