Volume 46, October, 2000 International, Page 43822
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Oct 2000 - PALESTINE
Violent clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian police and civilians throughout October effectively destroyed the Middle East peace process, and led Palestinian leaders to describe it as a new intifada (uprising). As many as 2,500 people were injured in the violence and 144, the overwhelming majority of whom were Palestinians, were killed.
The violence, the worst in the occupied territories since the end of the Palestinian intifada in 1993, began in late September when Ariel Sharon, the hardline, nationalist leader of the Israeli opposition Likud party, visited Haram-al-Sharif (Temple Mount), which was sacred to the Jews as the site of the Temple of Solomon but was also Islam's third most sacred site, containing the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque [see pp. 4376970]. Some of the worst violence was at the Jewish settlement of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip where Palestinians and Israeli soldiers pitched battles on ...

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