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Large-scale riots and demonstrations break out in the Gaza Strip in early December.

After soldiers in the Gaza Strip kill an Arab youth engaged in a protest, widespread unrest breaks out in the Israeli-occupied territories, leading to twenty-one deaths in two weeks. (The unrest will continue for more than five years. This uprising, distinguished by widespread street violence in which children and teenagers battle Israeli troops with rocks and stones, inspires a new era in Palestinian mass mobilization.)

The Israeli military, caught by surprise, proves ill equipped to deal with the revolt.

A grinding contest of wills ensues that soon claims many civilian casualties and alters the political landscape.

At the beginning of the Intifada movement against Israeli occupation, Hamas (which also has the Arabic meaning "zeal"), an acronym of Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah, (English: Islamic Resistance Movement), is established by members of the Muslim Brotherhood and religious factions of the PLO.