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What started "the first intifada" in 1987? ... This period of violence is known as the Intifada, or "shaking off." At first a spontaneous outburst instigated by false rumors and incitement by Muslim clerics, the Intifada quickly developed into a well-organized rebellion orchestrated by the PLO from its headquarters in Tunis.
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www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_intifada_1987.php
www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_intifada_1987.php
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In the first years of the Intifada international television coverage showing Palestinian civilians, many of them women, facing Israeli soldiers in full battle dress naturally aroused world sympathy, including in Israel itself, for the Palestinian cause.
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www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1991to_now_intifada_nature.ph...
www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1991to_now_intifada_nature.php
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The first Intifada (1987 - 1993), was a spontaneous explosion of popular resistance to the Israeli occupation, a resistance which had begun some fifty years before. The Palestinian people made a conscious and determined choice to consolidate their efforts in the struggle toward independence, regardless of the cost.
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www.jerusalemites.org/Intifada/first.htm
www.jerusalemites.org/Intifada/first.htm
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This uprising, or intifada (which means "shaking off" in Arabic), ... For the first few years, it involved many forms of civil disobedience, including massive demonstrations, general strikes, refusal to pay taxes, boycotts of Israeli products, political graffiti and the establishment of underground schools (since regular...
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The intifada, the uprising of the Palestinian Arabs, was triggered, though not caused, by a car crash in which four Palestinians were killed by an Israeli vehicle on December 8, 1987. Hundreds of Palestinians turned on Israeli troops stationed in the Gaza Strip’s largest refugee camp of Jabalya,
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www.jafi.org.il/education/100/maps/fintifada.html
www.jafi.org.il/education/100/maps/fintifada.html
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The first Intifada was the expression of frustration and revolt by a whole generation of Palestinian youth, who were born into the occupation and had never known anything else. They assumed, at least during the first few years of the insurrection, the leadership of the uprising.
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www.medea.be/index.html?page=2&lang=en&doc=101
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Palestinians killed in the Occupied Territories (including East Jerusalem) ... Year Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces ... The first Intifadah began on 9 December, 1987.
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www.btselem.org/English/statistics/First_Intifada_Table...
www.btselem.org/English/statistics/First_Intifada_Tables.asp
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The intifada was violent from the start. During the first four years of the uprising, more than 3,600 Molotov cocktail attacks, 100 hand grenade attacks and 600 assaults with guns or explosives were reported by the Israel Defense Forces.
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www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/intifada.h...
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/intifada.html
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In Part Six of a Morning Edition series on the history of the Middle East conflict, NPR's Mike Shuster reports on the first Palestinian Intifada, or uprising and the Oslo peace agreement between the Palestinians and Israel. ... The Mideast: A Century of Conflict; Part 6: From the First Intifada to the Oslo Peace Agreement...
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www.npr.org/news/specials/mideast/history/history6.html
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