Event
First Intifada
Palestinian uprising that began on 9 December 1987 in the Gaza Strip and spread to the West Bank.
- Dates
- 9 Dec 1987 – 13 Sep 1993
- Also known as
- First uprising
- Span 9 Dec 1987 – 13 Sep 1993
- interventions Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) 1987–1988
Connections 4
interventions
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Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement)
1987–1988
Primary record
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The covenant is dated eight months after the uprising began; it does not itself date the movement's start.
led to
located in
- Gaza Strip Primary record 2
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West Bank
Scholarship & press
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B'Tselem counts, from 9 December 1987 to 13 September 1993, 1,070 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces and 54 by Israeli civilians in the Occupied Territories, and 47 Israeli civilians and 43 security personnel killed there; the table is read row by row.
Timeline 2 dates
- 1987–1988 Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) intervened in First Intifada
- 9 Dec 1987 – 13 Sep 1993 First Intifada
Proof 3 sources
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The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement, 18 August 1988, The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 18 Aug 1988.
Primary record
The Islamic Resistance Movement emerged to carry out its role
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The Time Axis 1987-1993: The First Intifada, Israel Ministry of Defense, IDF and Defense Establishment Archives.
Primary record
The signing of the Mutual Recognition Memo between Israel and the PLO on September 13, 1993 put an end to the First Intifada.
On December 9, 1987, a popular uprising of the Palestinians broke out in the Gaza Strip and spread to the West Bank.
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Fatalities in the first Intifada, B'Tselem.
Scholarship & press
Archived copy
Fatalities in the first Intifada
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