The First Intifada, the first Palestinian uprising against Israel, started in December 1987 and stre
The First Intifada, the first Palestinian uprising against Israel, started in December 1987 and strengthened the Arab population in their determination to fight the occupying Israeli force in Gaza with general strikes and boycotts of its administration. In just 13 months, 332 Palestinians and 12 Israelis were killed. Given the high proportion of children killed and the global diffusion of images with soldiers beating palestinian adolescents, israeli forces had to adopt semi-lethal plastic bullets. Violence continued until March 1993, when Israel closed its border, causing a massive rise in unemployment. With more than 800,000 people contained in the Israeli-patrolled area, bloodshed increased sharply. This led to a peace agreement signed in Washington D.C. on 13 September 1993 which limited Israeli authority in the Gaza Strip and granted the withdrawal of its army. Larry Towell. -- source link
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