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Intifada

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Noun

1. intifada, intifadah

an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000

Example Sentences:
'the first intifada ended when Israel granted limited autonomy to the Palestine National Authority in 1993'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Intifada

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noun
the Palestinian uprising against Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that started at the end of 1987

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Intifada

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noun
an uprising; specif., either of two insurrections (1987-93, 2000-05) of Palestinian Arabs against Israeli military forces in the occupied territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank of the Jordan
: also sp. ˌintiˈfadeh

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Intifada

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n.
A protracted grassroots campaign of protest and sometimes violent resistance against perceived oppression or military occupation, especially either of two uprisings among Palestinian Arabs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, the first beginning in 1987 and the second in 2000, in protest against Israeli occupation of these territories.

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