The Intifada: The Palestinian Mass Uprising
----The rise of the PLO to the world stage really
began with the well-known intifada, or mass
uprising, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It was
at the end of 1987 where resistance to Israel's
occupation of the West Bank and Gaza strip began
to sharply escalate in the form of demonstrations,
strikes, boycotts, and violence. It came to
involve virtually the whole Palestinian population
in those areas, and continued even two years later
in spite of the hundreds of Palestinian deaths and
thousands of detentions that came at the hands of
I…
