Elected to the central council was Fadwa Barghouti, the wife of Marwan Barghouti who is serving five life sentences in Israel for his role in terrorist attacks on civilians in Israel during the Second Intifada.

Furthermore, Hezbollah is a strong supporter of the ongoing Al-Aqsa Intifada.

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

As a result of the significant increase of suicide bombing attacks within Israeli population centers during the first years of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, in June 2002 Israel began the construction of the West Bank Fence along the Green Line border arguing that the barrier is necessary to protect Israeli civilians from Palestinian terrorism.

The Second Intifada has caused thousands of victims on both sides, both among combatants and among civilians – The death toll, including both military and civilian, is estimated to be 5, 500 Palestinians and over 1, 000 Israelis, as well as 64 foreign citizens.

The Second Palestinian Intifada is often cited as being sparked by a visit made to the Temple Mount by Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon.

This event is often cited as one of the catalysts of the Second Intifada.

argue that Palestinian National Authority has, throughout the Intifada, placed unarmed men, women, children and the elderly in the line of fire, and that announcing the time and place of anti-occupation demonstrations via television, radio, sermons, and calls from mosque loudspeaker systems is done for this purpose.

Tuvia Grossman is a Jewish American man who during the Second Intifada in 2000 when the caption of an Associated Press photograph of an Israeli police officer defending a bloodied Grossman from a violent Arab mob wrongly identified him as a Palestinian.

The group has also expressed concern about what they say is " the excessive Israeli response to the Al Aqsa Intifada and the prolonged closure and siege of villages and towns on the West Bank ".

It is armed with three 7. 62 mm machine guns, including one Rafael Overhead Weapons Station, a machine gun controlled from within the cabin, developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems As a lesson from the Second Intifada, a bulletproof glass turret was installed over one of the hatches to enable the commander to see outside without being exposed to small arms fire and shrapnel.

From Beirut to Jerusalem ( 1989 ) is a book by American journalist Thomas L. Friedman chronicling his days as a reporter in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and in Jerusalem through the first year of the Intifada.

He is considered a " symbol of the Intifada ".

These organizations would grow and initiate the First Intifada in December 1987 ( the word Intifada in Arabic, literally translated as " tremor ", is generally used to describe an uprising or revolt ).

It is extremely weak in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and has not been active during the al-Aqsa Intifada.

* Marwan Barghouti ( born June 6, 1958 ) is a leader of Fatah, the military branch of the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization and convicted for actions during the Second Intifada.

After the Second Intifada in 2000, many believe that the two-state solution is increasingly losing its feasibility.

Even though the PFLP and DFLP remain very active in Palestinian politics and both have played a military role in the Al-Aqsa Intifada, their political support is rather reduced, especially within the occupied territories.

Al-Zahar was a strange choice for the position ; he is a wanted man according to Israeli security forces, and it has been confirmed that he actively encouraged and planned attacks against Israeli civilian and military targets during and before the Al-Aqsa Intifada ( BBC News, 27 January 2006 ).

Under Siege is about the modern history of Palestine and it focuses on the lives of 5 Palestinian family members, during the second Intifada 1999 – 2002.

Plaintiffs specifically argue that the Bank is liable for processing payments sent by the " Saudi Committee in Support of the Intifada Al Quds " to Palestinians from 2000 through 2004.

* The Intifada and Nonviolent Struggle ( Arabic )

The Cedar Revolution ( Arabic: ثورة الأرز-thawrat al-arz ) or Independence Intifada ( Arabic: انتفاضة الاستقلال-intifāḍat al-istiqlāl ) was a chain of demonstrations in Lebanon ( especially in the capital Beirut ) triggered by the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on February 14, 2005.

* The Site of Meaning: Essays from the First Year of the Intifada 2002 ( Arabic )

The First Intifada ( 1987 – 93 ) provoked a shift in Palestinian politics towards the Occupied Palestinian Territories, which proved a severe handicap for the largely diaspora-based DFLP.

The DFLP has been largely unable to make its presence felt during the al-Aqsa Intifada, which began in 2000.

* Tanzim – The Tanzim ( Organization ) was a branch of Fatah under the leadership of Marwan Barghouti, with roots in the activism of the First Intifada, which carried out armed attacks in the early days of the Second Intifada.

* Al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades – The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades were created in the Second Intifada to bolster the organization's militant standing vis-à-vis the rival Hamas movement, which had taken the lead in attacks on Israel after 1993, and was gaining rapidly in popularity with the advent of the Intifada.

* Second Intifada, a period of intensified Palestinian – Israeli violence, which began in late September 2000 and ended around 2005

* The Electronic Intifada, an online publication which covers the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective

Syria continues to play an active pan-Arab role, which has intensified as the peace process collapsed in September 2000 with the start of the second Palestinian uprising ( Intifada ) against Israel.

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.

Israeli military forces withdraw from the Palestinian territories in compliance with the accord, which marked the end of the First Intifada ( a period of violence between Palestinian Arab militants and Israeli armed forces from 1987 to 1993 ).

*** Second Intifada ( 2000 – 2005 ) – After the signing of the Oslo Accords failed to bring about a Palestinian state, in September 2000 the Second Intifada ( uprising ) broke out, a period of intensified Palestinian-Israeli violence, which has been taking place until the present day.

Over the period of the First Intifada and Second Intifada the Jewish community was subjected to attacks by Palestinian militants, especially during the periods of the Intifadas ; which saw 3 fatal stabbings and 9 fatal shootings in between the first and second Intifada ( 0. 9 % of all fatalities in Israel and the West Bank ) and 17 fatal shootings ( 9 soldiers and 8 settlers ) and 2 fatalities from a bombing during the second Intifada, and thousands of rounds fired on it from the hills above the Abu-Sneina and Harat al-Sheikh neighbourhoods.

The Intifada leadership organized " tree plantings " and resorted to the tactics used in pre-1948 Palestine, such as ordering general strikes in which no commercial businesses were allowed to open and no cars were allowed on the streets.

The First Intifada ( also known as simply the " intifada " or intifadah ) was a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories, which lasted from December 1987 to 1993.

Describing the causes of the Intifada, Benny Morris refers to the " all-pervading element of humiliation ", caused by the protracted occupation which he says was " always a brutal and mortifying experience for the occupied " and was " founded on brute force, repression and fear, collaboration and treachery, beatings and torture chambers, and daily intimidation, humiliation, and manipulation "

* The Intifada empowered Palestinians to enter negotiations which lead to the Madrid Conference and the Oslo Accords.

That year he received a second Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, which cited his coverage of the First Palestinian Intifada.

In the face of the Second Intifada, Sharon pursued a varied set of policies, many of which were controversial even within the Likud.

The crew started off in Haifa, Israel, but had to shift to Morocco because of the Al-Aqsa Intifada which broke out in late 2000.