The First Intifada, also known as the First Palestinian Intifada or the Stone Intifada, was a sustained series of protests, acts of civil disobedience and riots carried out by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and Israel. It was motivated by collective Palestinian frustration over Israel's military occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as it approached a twenty-year mark, having begun in the wake of the 1967 Arab–Israeli War. The uprising lasted from December 1987 until the Madrid Conference of 1991, though some date its conclusion to 1993, with the signing of the Oslo Accords.
Top, bottom: Israeli military checkpoint near Jabalia in the Gaza Strip, 1988 Palestinian protestors confront Israeli troops in Gaza City, 1987
Image: Jabalya 1988roadblock
An IDF soldier requesting a resident of Jabalia to erase a slogan on a wall during the first intifada.
An improvised tire-puncturing device (slang term 'Ninja') comprising an iron nail inserted into a rubber disc (from used tire). Many of these makeshift weapons were scattered by Palestinians on main roads in the occupied territories of the West Bank during the First Intifada.
The Gaza Strip, or simply Gaza, is a polity and the smaller of the two Palestinian territories. On the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, Gaza is bordered by Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the east and north.
Palestinians in an outdoor market in the Gaza Strip in 1956
Che Guevara visiting Gaza in 1959
Gaza City in 1967
Israeli soldiers in Gaza in 1969
