Marwan Barghouti is a Palestinian political leader convicted and imprisoned for his role in deadly attacks against Israel. He is regarded as a leader of the First and Second Intifadas. Barghouti at one time supported the peace process, but later became disillusioned after 2000, becoming a leader of Tanzim, a paramilitary offshoot of Fatah.
Marwan Barghouti
A portrait of Marwan Barghouti on the wall by Qalandia.
Barghouti being arrested by Israeli soldiers in Ramallah during Operation Defensive Shield
A portrait of Marwan Barghouti at a demonstration at Kafr ad-Dik.
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.
