02/07/2022
The First Intifada, or First Palestinian Intifada (also known simply as the intifada or intifadah), was a sustained series of Palestinian protests in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and within the zionist entity . The protests were against the zionist occupation of the West Bank and Gaza that had begun twenty years prior, in 1967. The intifada lasted from December 1987 until the Madrid Conference in 1991, though some date its conclusion to 1993, with the signing of the Oslo Accords.
The intifada began on 9 December 1987, in the Jabalia refugee camp after an zionist occupation truck collided with a civilian car, killing four Palestinian workers, three of whom were from the Jabalia refugee camp. Palestinians charged that the collision was a deliberate response for the killing of a Jew in Gaza days earlier. Entity zionist denied that the crash, which came at time of heightened tensions, was intentional or coordinated. The Palestinian response was characterized by protests, civil disobedience, and violence. There was graffiti, barricading, and widespread throwing of stones and Molotov cocktails at the zionist occupation and its infrastructure within the West Bank and Gaza Strip. These contrasted with civil efforts including general strikes, boycotts of setlers Administration institutions in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, an economic boycott consisting of refusal to work in zionist settlements on zionist products, refusal to pay taxes, and refusal to drive Palestinian cars with zionist licenses.