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====October 2000 events====
[[File:Andartnazareth.jpg|thumb|Monument to Israeli Arab casualties in October 2000 riots, Nazareth]]
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The "October 2000 events" refers to several days of disturbances and clashes within Israel, mostly between [[Arab citizens of Israel|Arab citizens]] and the [[Israel police]], as well as large-scale rioting by both Arabs and Jews. Twelve Arab citizens of Israel and a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip were killed by Israeli police, while an Israeli Jew was killed when his car was hit by a rock on the [[Highway 2 (Israel)|Tel-Aviv-Haifa freeway]].<!-- both sentences supported by Catigani --> During the first month of the Intifada, 141 Palestinians were killed and 5,984 were wounded, while 12 Israelis were killed and 65 wounded.<ref name="Catignani">{{cite book |last1=Catignani |first1=Sergio |year=2008 |chapter=The Al-Aqsa Intifada |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mfNBodDl0hgC&pg=PA105 |title=Israeli Counter-Insurgency and the Intifadas: Dilemmas of a Conventional Army |publisher=[[Routledge]] |pages=104–106 |isbn=978-1-134-07997-1 |access-date=3 October 2016 |archive-date=23 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223214612/https://books.google.com/books?id=mfNBodDl0hgC&pg=PA105 |url-status=live }}</ref>

A general strike and demonstrations across northern Israel began on 1 October and continued for several days. In some cases, the demonstrations escalated into clashes with the [[Israel police|Israeli police]] involving [[Palestinian stone throwing|rock-throwing]], [[Molotov cocktail|firebombing]], and live-fire. Policemen used tear-gas and opened fire with [[rubber bullet|rubber-coated bullets]] and later live ammunition in some instances, many times in contravention of police protocol governing riot-dispersion. This use of live ammunition was directly linked with many of the deaths by the [[Or Commission]].

On 8 October, thousands of Jewish Israelis participated in violent acts in Tel Aviv and elsewhere, some throwing stones at Arabs, destroying Arab property and chanting "Death to the Arabs."<ref>{{cite news |date=19 November 2001 |url=http://www.haaretz.com/the-or-inquiry-summary-of-events-1.291940 |title=The Or Inquiry – Summary of Events |newspaper=[[Haaretz]] |access-date=28 September 2014 |archive-date=19 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419015517/http://www.haaretz.com/the-or-inquiry-summary-of-events-1.291940 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Following the riots, a high degree of tension between Jewish and Arab citizens and distrust between the Arab citizens and police were widespread. An investigation committee, headed by Supreme Court Justice [[Theodor Or]], reviewed the violent riots and found that the police were poorly prepared to handle such riots and charged major officers with bad conduct. The [[Or Commission]] reprimanded Prime Minister [[Ehud Barak]] and recommended [[Shlomo Ben-Ami]], then the Internal Security Minister, not serve again as Minister of Public Security. The committee also blamed Arab leaders and Knesset members for contributing to inflaming the atmosphere and making the violence more severe.