Editing Second Intifada (section)

====Post-visit Palestinian riots====
On 29 September 2000, the day after Sharon's visit, following Friday prayers, large riots broke out around the [[Old City of Jerusalem]]. Israeli police fired at Palestinians at the Temple Mount throwing stones over the [[Western Wall]] at Jewish worshippers. After the chief of Jerusalem's police force was knocked unconscious by a stone, they switched to live ammunition and killed four Palestinian youths.{{sfn|Shindler|2013|p=283}}<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sontag |first1=Deborah |title=Battle at Jerusalem Holy Site Leaves 4 Dead and 200 Hurt |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/30/world/battle-at-jerusalem-holy-site-leaves-4-dead-and-200-hurt.html |access-date=14 November 2014 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=30 September 2000 |archive-date=29 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129070952/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/30/world/battle-at-jerusalem-holy-site-leaves-4-dead-and-200-hurt.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Dellios |first1=Hugh |title=4 Dead, Scores Wounded in Jerusalem Clashes |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2000/09/30/4-dead-scores-wounded-in-jerusalem-clashes/ |access-date=14 November 2014 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=30 September 2000 |location=Jerusalem |quote=police clashed with stone-throwing Palestinians, killing four and wounding scores |archive-date=28 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141128195316/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-09-30/news/0009300071_1_palestinian-police-officer-jerusalem-clashes-temple-mount |url-status=live}}</ref> Up to 200 Palestinians and police were injured.<ref name=cnn20000929>{{cite news |title=CNN's Jerrold Kessel on continuing violence in the Mideast |url=http://edition.cnn.com/chat/transcripts/2000/9/29/kessel/ |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=29 September 2000 |access-date=28 September 2014 |archive-date=19 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130919100942/http://edition.cnn.com/chat/transcripts/2000/9/29/kessel/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> Another three Palestinians were killed in the Old City and on the [[Mount of Olives]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Menachem Klein |title=The Jerusalem Problem: The Struggle for Permanent Status |publisher=[[University Press of Florida]] |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-8130-2673-2 |pages=97–98}}</ref> By the end of the day, seven Palestinians had been killed and 300 had been wounded;<ref name="autogenerated2">{{cite book |author=Menachem Klein |title=The Jerusalem Problem: The Struggle for Permanent Status |publisher=[[University Press of Florida]] |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-8130-2673-2 |page=97}}</ref> 70 Israeli policemen were also injured in the clashes.<ref name="klein_jerusalemproblem_p98" /><ref>{{cite web |date=19 October 2000 |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/041/2000/en/ |title=Israel and the Occupied Territories: Excessive use of lethal force |publisher=[[Amnesty International]] |access-date=19 November 2018 |archive-date=22 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122054850/https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/041/2000/en/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

In the days that followed, demonstrations erupted all over the [[West Bank]] and [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]]. Israeli police responded with live fire and rubber-coated bullets. In the first five days, at least 47 Palestinians were killed, and 1,885 were wounded.<ref name="autogenerated2" /> In Paris, as [[Jacques Chirac]] attempted to mediate between the parties, he protested to Barak that the ratio of Palestinians and Israelis killed and wounded on one day were such that he could not convince anyone the Palestinians were the aggressors. He also told Barak that "continu(ing) to fire from helicopters on people throwing rocks" and refusing an international inquiry was tantamount to rejecting Arafat's offer to participate in trilateral negotiations.<ref>{{cite book |author=Gilead Sher |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EdgAWFiDryMC&pg=PA162 |title=The Israeli–Palestinian Peace Negotiations, 1999–2001: Within Reach |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-7146-8542-7 |pages=161–162 |author-link=Gilead Sher |access-date=12 December 2015 |archive-date=2 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102113652/https://books.google.com/books?id=EdgAWFiDryMC&pg=PA162 |url-status=live }}: "Your account of events does not match the impression of any country in the world," he said. "At Camp David, Israel did in fact make a significant step towards peace, but Sharon's visit was the detonator, and everything has exploded. This morning, sixty-four Palestinians are dead, nine Israeli-Arabs were also killed, and you're pressing on. You cannot, Mr Prime Minister, explain this ratio in the number of [killed and] wounded. You cannot make anyone believe that the Palestinians are the aggressors....When I was a company commander in Algeria, I also thought I was right. I fought the guerillas. Later I realized I was wrong. It is the honour of the strong, to reach out and not to shoot. Today you must reach out your hand. If you continue to fire from helicopters on people throwing rocks, and you continue to refuse an international inquiry, you are turning down a gesture from Arafat. You have no idea how hard I pushed Arafat to agree to a trilateral meeting. ...'</ref> During the first few days of riots, the IDF fired approximately 1.3&nbsp;million bullets.<ref>Earlier estimates gave a million bullets and projectiles shot by Israeli forces in the first few days, 700,000 in the West Bank and 300,000 in the Gaza Strip. See Ben Kaspit, "Jewish New Year 2002—the Second Anniversary of the Intifada," ''[[Maariv]]'' 6 September 2002 (Heb), in Cheryl Rubenberg, ''The Palestinians: In Search of a Just Peace'', [[Lynne Rienner Publishers]], 2003 p. 324, p. 361 n. 5. The figure was revealed by [[Amos Malka]], then-director of Military Intelligence. [[Moshe Ya'alon]], who later became the Israeli Chief of Staff, denied the 1.3&nbsp;million figure, claiming that the number reflected the demand of the command units for supplemental ammunition. {{cite news |last=Pedatzur |first=Reuven |date=4 December 2008 |title=Deflater of defeatist discourse |url=http://www.haaretz.com/deflater-of-defeatist-discourse-1.258857 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219170311/http://www.haaretz.com/deflater-of-defeatist-discourse-1.258857 |archive-date=19 December 2014 |access-date=28 September 2014 |work=[[Haaretz]]}}</ref>

According to [[Amnesty International]] the early Palestinian casualties were those taking part in demonstrations or bystanders. Amnesty further states that approximately 80% of the Palestinians killed during the first month were in demonstrations where Israeli security services lives were not in danger.<ref name="Amnesty International">{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE15/083/2001/en |title=Israel and the Occupied Territories: Broken Lives – A Year of Intifada |date=13 November 2001 |publisher=[[Amnesty International]] |access-date=4 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329030342/http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE15/083/2001/en |archive-date=29 March 2014}}</ref>

On 30 September 2000, the death of [[Muhammad al-Durrah incident|Muhammad al-Durrah]], a Palestinian boy shot dead while sheltering behind his father in an alley in the Gaza Strip, was caught on video. Initially the boy's death and his father's wounding was attributed to Israeli soldiers. The scene assumed iconic status, as it was shown around the world and repeatedly broadcast on Arab television. The Israeli army initially assumed responsibility for the killing and apologised, and only retracted 2 months later, when an internal investigation cast doubt on the original version, and controversy subsequently raged as to whether indeed the IDF had fired the shots or Palestinian factions were responsible for the fatal gunshots.<ref>Nitzan Ben-Shaul, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QFBiclfUJ04C&pg=PA118 ''A Violent World: TV News Images of Middle Eastern Terror and War''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819201558/https://books.google.com/books?id=QFBiclfUJ04C&pg=PA118 |date=19 August 2020 }} [[Rowman & Littlefield]], 6 March 2007 pp.118–120.</ref>