intifada

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noun in·ti·fa·da \ ˌin-tə-ˈfä-də \

Definition of intifada

:uprising, rebellion; specifically :an armed uprising of Palestinians against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip

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Abbas may have been president, but the chaos of the post-intifada era still loomed large.

— amir tibon, The Atlantic, "The Political Education of Mahmoud Abbas," 2 July 2017
Another thousand have been severed from their neighbors by the building of the separation barrier a decade ago, after the wave of suicide bombings that characterized the uprising known as the second intifada.

— geraldine brooks, The New Yorker, "The Dovekeeper and the Children’s Intifada," 27 May 2017
Barghouti, a leader in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, was convicted of murder over the killing of Israelis during the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, and sentenced in 2004 to five life terms.

— NBC News, "Palestinian Inmates in Israeli Jails End Hunger Strike," 27 May 2017
Work on the wall began in the early 2000s, in response to the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising.

— ofri eshel, CNN, "Neither Israelis nor Palestinians expect much from Trump visit," 21 May 2017
Their eldest is Mohammad, 32, who is serving a 17-year sentence, the family said, for shooting at Israeli forces during the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising.

— william booth, Washington Post, "Israel wants Trump to stop Palestinian payments to prisoners and families of ‘martyrs’," 19 May 2017
A spokesman for the mainstream Palestinian political party Fatah predicted an embassy move could lead to a third intifada, or popular uprising against Israel.

— jonathan ferziger, Bloomberg.com, "Why U.S. Embassy Move to Jerusalem Is So Fraught: QuickTake Q&A," 14 Feb. 2017
Increasingly, the threat to France looked less like terrorism visited from abroad, than a version of its own intifada — neighbors turning into killers, the ordinary tools of life used as weapons, and pleasantly mundane places made into war zones.

— adam nossiter, New York Times, "‘There's Something That’s Not Right. Someone Lost Control of Their Truck.’," 15 July 2016

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