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Intifada (Arabic: انتفاضة, romanized: intifāḍah) is an Arabic word for a rebellion or uprising, or a resistance movement.It can be used to refer to an uprising against oppression.
The February 6 Intifada or February 6 uprising in West Beirut took place on 6 February 1984 during the Lebanese Civil War. [1] It was a battle where the Shia Amal Movement and the Druze Progressive Socialist Party decisively defeated the Lebanese army and the Multinational Force present in Lebanon that supported it.
Globalize the Intifada is a slogan that has been used for advocating for global activism in support of Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation. The term intifada being derived from the Arabic word nafada meaning to "shake off", refers to Palestinian uprisings or resistance against Israeli control, and the call to "globalize" it suggests extending the spirit and actions of these ...
Section 1, Article 1: "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a socialist state of the whole people, expressing the will and interests of the workers, peasants and intelligentsia, the working people of all the nations and nationalities of the country". [62] The Soviet Union consisted of fifteen republics. [nb 21] [63]
President Sabha Randhawa’s online statement doesn’t mention the group Social Revolution, which is planning the protest, but it refers to posters advertising the event that use the phrase ...
In 1987, the Intifada caught the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) by surprise, and as a result the leadership abroad could only indirectly influence the events. [1] A new local leadership emerged, the Unified National Leadership of the Uprising (UNLU), comprising many leading Palestinian factions.
Fatah al-Intifada (Arabic: فتح الانتفاضة, lit. 'Fatah Uprising') is a Palestinian militant faction founded by Said Muragha , better known as Abu Musa . [ 5 ] Officially it refers to itself as the Palestinian National Liberation Movement - "Fatah" ( Arabic : حركة التحرير الوطني الفلسطيني- فتح ), the ...
As the First Intifada continued despite the Israeli government's use of force, and as the Intifada grew more violent, the Israeli government began to shift strategies, de-emphasising the use of force, reducing the number of soldiers deployed to the Palestinian Territories, and reducing the severity of the restrictions placed on Palestinians. [32]