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Arabic `resurgence' or `throwing off'
Palestinian uprising; also the title of the
involved Liberation Army of Palestine, a
loosely organized group of adult and teenage
Palestinians active since 1987 in attacks on
Israeli troops in the occupied territories of
Palestine. Their campaign for
self-determination includes stone-throwing
and petrol bombing. The uprising began in Dec
1987 in Gaza. Rumours that a fatal traffic
collision had been caused by Israeli security
service agents in retaliation for the
stabbing of an Israeli the previous week led
to demonstrations by teenagers armed with
slingshots. It subsequently spread despite
attempts at repression. Some 600 Palestinians
and 45 Jews were killed in the uprising to
the end of 1989. Over 157 Palestinian private
homes have been dynamited by military order,
under a still-valid British emergency
regulation promulgated 1946 to put down
Jewish guerrillas. The number of soldiers on
duty on the West Bank at the beginning of
1989 was said to be more than three times the
number needed to conquer it during the
Six-Day War.