Editing First Intifada (section)

== Other notable events ==

=== Assassination of Abu Jihad ===
On 16 April 1988, a leader of the PLO, [[Abu Jihad|Khalil al-Wazir, ''nom de guerre'' Abu Jihad or 'Father of the Struggle']], was assassinated in [[Tunis]] by an Israeli commando squad. Israel claimed he was the 'remote-control "main organizer" of the revolt', and perhaps believed that his death would break the back of the Intifada. During the mass demonstrations and mourning in Gaza that followed, two of the main mosques of Gaza were raided by the IDF and worshippers were beaten and tear-gassed.<ref>Anita Vitullo, pp. 50-1</ref> In total between 11 and 15 Palestinians were killed during the demonstrations and riots in Gaza and West Bank that followed al-Wazir's death.<ref name="UNISPAL">{{cite web | url=http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/50670C9C0FF4C6308025645F005EAAA4 | title=THE QUESTION OF PALESTINE 1979–1990 | publisher=United Nations | date=31 July 1991 | access-date=14 April 2015 | author=UN | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104215919/http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/50670C9C0FF4C6308025645F005EAAA4 | archive-date=4 November 2013}}</ref> In June of that year, the [[Arab League]] agreed to support the Intifada financially at the [[1988 Arab League summit]]. The Arab League reaffirmed its financial support in the 1989 summit.<ref>[[Avraham Sela|Sela, Avraham]].  "Arab Summit Conferences." ''The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East''.  Ed. Sela.  New York: Continuum, 2002. pp. 158-160</ref>

Israeli defense minister [[Yitzhak Rabin]]'s response was: "We will teach them there is a price for refusing the laws of Israel."<ref>Sosebee, Stephen J. "The Passing of Yitzhak Rabin, Whose 'Iron Fist' Fueled the Intifada" ''The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.'' 31 October 1990. Vol. IX #5, pg. 9</ref> When time in prison did not stop the activists, Israel crushed the boycott by imposing heavy fines and seizing and disposing of equipment, furnishings, and goods from local stores, factories and homes.<ref name="Aburish">[[Said K. Aburish|Aburish, Said K.]] (1998). ''Arafat: From Defender to Dictator''. New York: [[Bloomsbury Publishing]] pp. 201-228 {{ISBN|978-1-58234-049-4}}</ref>

=== 1990 Temple Mount killings ===
On 8 October 1990, 22 Palestinians were killed by Israeli police during the [[1990 Temple Mount killings]] at [[Al-Aqsa]]. This led the Palestinians to adopt more lethal tactics, with three Israeli civilians and one IDF soldier stabbed in Jerusalem and Gaza two weeks later. Incidents of stabbing persisted.<ref>Ruth Margolies Beitler, ''The Path to Mass Rebellion: An Analysis of Two Intifadas'', p. 128.</ref> The Israeli state apparatus carried out contradictory and conflicting policies that were seen to have injured Israel's own interests, such as the closing of educational establishments (putting more youths onto the streets) and issuing the [[Shin Bet]] list of collaborators.<ref name="NassarHeacock1990_115">[[#NassarHeacock1990|Nassar; Heacock (1990)]], p.&nbsp;[https://books.google.com/books?id=_P5W5ErBQRYC&pg=PA115 115.]</ref> [[Suicide bombing]]s by Palestinian militants started on 16 April 1993 with the [[Mehola Junction bombing]], carried at the end of the Intifada.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Tangled Roots: Social and Psychological Factors in the Genesis of Terrorism|author=Jeffrey Ivan Victoroff|year=2006|page=204|publisher=IOS Press|isbn=978-1-58603-670-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=olWnkxm4SPoC&q=%22suicide+bombing%22+first+palestinian+1993&pg=PA204}}</ref>