Intifadha - El Aqsa (Palestine)
The second Intifadha, also known as the Al Aqsa Intifadha, broke out on September 28, 2000, in reaction to the visit of Likud leader Ariel Sharon to the Al Aqsa Mosques plaza. This offense provoked an explosion of anger among Palestinians exasperated by the expansion of settlements despite the Oslo Accords (September 1993). The first clashes took place the next day, with Palestinian demonstrators demanding an immediate end to the occupation. The repression that followed left more than 200 dead in one month, a third of whom were under 20 years old.
The Al Aqsa Intifadha, unlike the first, will be dominated by targeted actions against the Israeli army, settlers, as well as Israelis living inside the border between Israel and the Palestinian territories occupied before 1967.
The repression increased in ferocity with the coming to power of Ariel Sharon in February 2001, who has since increased incursions and raids into Palestinian autonomous zones, targeted all structures of the Palestinian Authority and its leader Yasser Arafat, expanded Jewish colonies to other Palestinian lands, destroyed infrastructure – blocking all social, economic and political life in the Palestinian territories –, demolished houses and bombed the camps. refugees... But neither the barbaric acts perpetrated against the Palestinian populations nor the vain efforts to isolate Palestine have succeeded in extinguishing the flame of revolt of the Palestinian people who aspire to pray one day in a liberated Quds and capital of the Palestinian state.
The Al Aqsa Intifadha, unlike the first, will be dominated by targeted actions against the Israeli army, settlers, as well as Israelis living inside the border between Israel and the Palestinian territories occupied before 1967.
The repression increased in ferocity with the coming to power of Ariel Sharon in February 2001, who has since increased incursions and raids into Palestinian autonomous zones, targeted all structures of the Palestinian Authority and its leader Yasser Arafat, expanded Jewish colonies to other Palestinian lands, destroyed infrastructure – blocking all social, economic and political life in the Palestinian territories –, demolished houses and bombed the camps. refugees... But neither the barbaric acts perpetrated against the Palestinian populations nor the vain efforts to isolate Palestine have succeeded in extinguishing the flame of revolt of the Palestinian people who aspire to pray one day in a liberated Quds and capital of the Palestinian state.