WORLD HISTORY

DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE EAST

ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When was the First Intifada?
A
Late 1960s
B
Late 1970s
C
Late 1980s
D
Late 1990s
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Following the outbreak of a Palestinian uprising known as the first intifadah in 1987, the organization publicly proclaimed its existence under the name Ḥamās. The group’s charter, issued in 1988, called for a holy war to establish an Islamic state covering the entirety of historic Palestine.

Detailed explanation-2: -Which best describes the first intifada launched by Palestinians in the 1980s? A campaign that included boycotts, strikes, demonstrations, and attacks on Israeli soldiers.

Detailed explanation-3: -The intifada began on 9 December 1987, in the Jabalia refugee camp after an Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) truck collided with a civilian car, killing four Palestinian workers, three of whom were from the Jabalia refugee camp.

Detailed explanation-4: -The First Intifada was a largely spontaneous series of Palestinian demonstrations, nonviolent actions like mass boycotts, civil disobedience, Palestinians refusing to work jobs in Israel, and attacks (using rocks, Molotov cocktails, and occasionally firearms) on Israelis.

Detailed explanation-5: -The year 1987 marked the 20-year anniversary of the Israeli conquest of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the formerly Egyptian-and Jordanian-controlled lands that the Palestinians called home.

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