intifada
noun
in·ti·fa·da
ˌin-tə-ˈfä-də 
plural intifadas
: uprising, rebellion
specifically
: an armed uprising of Palestinians against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip
I was a college student at Tufts University in December 1987, when the first Palestinian intifada began. —
Hady Amr
Hady Amr … in 2000, the second intifada struck with the force of an earthquake. As Palestinians fought Israeli troops, the West Bank became all but ungovernable. —Karen E. Lange
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Israel’s military response to the second intifada had led to intense fighting in the West Bank, with high numbers of Palestinian civilian casualties, and the United States was trying, unsuccessfully, to secure a cease-fire.
—Mohammad Shtayyeh, Foreign Affairs, 4 July 2024
But the insurgency in the occupied West Bank has remained broadly the same since the second intifada, or uprising, in the early 2000s — a period that claimed thousands of lives.
—Matt Bradley, NBC News, 28 June 2024
With the outbreak of the second intifada a few years later, the assassinations ramped up, and in 2004, Israel killed Hamas’s founder, Ahmed Yassin.
—Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2024
Between 1949 and now, including the intifadas of the 1990s and early 2000s and the Oct. 7 atrocities, 4,890 civilians have died in terror attacks.
—Efrem Sigel, New York Daily News, 25 Jan. 2024
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Mohammad Shtayyeh, Foreign Affairs, 4 July 2024
But the insurgency in the occupied West Bank has remained broadly the same since the second intifada, or uprising, in the early 2000s — a period that claimed thousands of lives.
—Matt Bradley, NBC News, 28 June 2024
With the outbreak of the second intifada a few years later, the assassinations ramped up, and in 2004, Israel killed Hamas’s founder, Ahmed Yassin.
—Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2024
Between 1949 and now, including the intifadas of the 1990s and early 2000s and the Oct. 7 atrocities, 4,890 civilians have died in terror attacks.
—Efrem Sigel, New York Daily News, 25 Jan. 2024
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intifada
noun
in·ti·fa·da
ˌint-ə-ˈfäd-ə
Etymology
Arabic intifāda, literally, "the act of shaking off"
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