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
  • But after the bloodshed of the Palestinian intifadas and Hamas’s vicious attacks on Israel, that moment is long gone.
    David Ignatius, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • 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

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