How to Use intifada in a Sentence

intifada

noun

• By the time the second intifada broke out in 2000, many of the camp’s teenagers joined militant groups.
  — Maha Nassar, The Conversation, 5 July 2023
• The surge in violence and complete lack of progress in peace talks has sparked fears of a third intifada.
  — Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2017
• Tibi was worried that a third intifada was not far off.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• The attack was considered as one of the triggers for the first intifada.
  — Albert Aji, Star Tribune, 18 July 2021
• Abbas may have been president, but the chaos of the post-intifada era still loomed large.
  — Amir Tibon, The Atlantic, 2 July 2017
• But this round — which like the intifada, began in Jerusalem — seems to be rippling far and wide, tearing apart the country at its seams.
  — Samy Magdy, USA TODAY, 13 May 2021
• Hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians were killed in the last intifada in the early 2000s.
  — Rachel Elbaum, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2017
• And the other one, of course, is as the CT chief in the military intelligence, the second intifada.
  — CBS News, 4 May 2022
• For as long as these divisions hold, there’s little chance of a third intifada.
  — Jonathan Spyer, WSJ, 11 May 2021
• The level of risk harks back to two decades ago to the wave of violence known as the second intifada, when 12 medics were killed, according to the Red Crescent.
  — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
• Hamas has called for a full-scale intifada, or uprising.
  — Fares Akram and Joseph Krauss, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2021
• The attacks occurred in and around Jerusalem during a wave of violence known as the second, or Al-Aqsa, intifada.
  — Mark Sherman, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2018
• The first intifada, in the 1980s, was defined mainly by protests and violent riots.
  — Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2023
• The Jenin refugee camp was the scene of one of the deadliest battles of the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising.
  — Joseph Krauss, ajc, 31 Mar. 2022
• The second intifada took place basically from the fall of 2000.
  — CBS News, 22 Mar. 2023
• The Jenin refugee camp was the scene of one of the deadliest battles of the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, 20 years ago.
  — Joseph Krauss, ajc, 8 Apr. 2022
• The intifada lasts more than five years, ending in September 1993.
  — USA Today, 20 May 2021
• Hamas’s growing aggressiveness and the crisis of the peace process led to the eruption of the second intifada in September 2000.
  — Jean-Pierre Filiu, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2024
• Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip and opposes Israel’s existence, has called for a new intifada.
  — Josef Federman and Fares Akram, USA TODAY, 8 May 2021
• Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip and opposes Israel's existence, has called for a new intifada.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 May 2021
• With the outbreak of the second intifada a few years later, the assassinations ramped up, and in 2004, Israel killed Hamas’s founder, Ahmed Yassin.
  — Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2024
• Indeed, the Camp David summit collapsed, and the Palestinians launched the second intifada a few months later.
  — Martin Indyk, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• This story has been corrected to reflect that the first intifada started in 1987.
  — Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2014
• But this round seems to be rippling farther and wider than at any time since the 2000 Palestinian intifada, or uprising.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
• That was well into the Palestinian uprising that began in 1987, known as the first intifada.
  — Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• Instead, the talks failed and the second intifada broke out, quickly becoming far more violent than the first.
  — Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2023
• Then the peace process imploded as Palestinians launched the second intifada that fall.
  — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2024
• But Oman closed its office in Israel in 2000 in the wake of the second intifada, or Palestinian uprising.
  — Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
• In 2000, Ariel Sharon, as the head of the opposition, entered the holy compound, helping to spark the second Palestinian intifada.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• But at any moment the situation could become even more volatile, resulting in the next intifada.
  — Mark Mazzetti Jonathan Davis Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 16 May 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024