Page "Yasser Arafat" Paragraph 54

During the 1980s, Arafat received financial assistance from Libya, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, which allowed him to reconstruct the badly battered PLO.

This was particularly useful during the First Intifada in December 1987, which began as an uprising of Palestinians against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The word Intifada in Arabic is literally translated as " tremor ", however, it is generally defined as an uprising or revolt.