First Intifadah

First Intifada

Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

IDF roadblock outside Jabalya during the First Intifada, 1988

Date

8 December 1987 – 13 September 1993
(5 years, 9 months and 5 days)

Location

Result

Palestinian popular uprising suppressed

Madrid Conference of 1991 and eventually Oslo I Accord:
Establishment of the Palestinian Authority
The PLO recognizes Israel

Belligerents

Israel

al-Qiyada al Muwhhada

Hamas

Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Supported by:

Iraq(during Gulf War)

Commanders and leaders

Yitzhak Shamir
(Prime Minister)
Yitzhak Rabin
(Defense Minister)
Dan Shomron
(Chief of General Staff)

Abu Jihad †
Marwan Barghouti

Casualties and losses

277 Israelis killed

175 civilians
102 security-force

1,962 Palestinians killed

1,603 killed by Israelis
359 killed by Palestinians

Palestinian popular uprising suppressed

al-Qiyada al Muwhhada

277 Israelis killed

1,962 Palestinians killed

The First Intifada or First Palestinian Intifada (also known simply as the intifada or intifadah) was a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The uprising lasted from December 1987 until the Madrid Conference in 1991, though some date its conclusion to 1993, with the signing of the Oslo Accords.

The uprising began on 9 December, in the Jabalia refugee camp after an Israeli Defense Forces' (IDF) truck collided with a civilian car, killing four Palestinians. In the wake of the incident, a protest movement arose, involving a two-fold strategy of resistance and civil disobedience, consisting of 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, refusal to drive Palestinian cars with Israeli licenses, graffiti, barricading, and widespread throwing of stones and Molotov cocktails at the IDF and its infrastructure within the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

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