The tactics of the Intifada are highly…

The tactics of the Intifada are highly sophisticated.

Union-organized strikes, commercial boycotts and closures, and demonstrations are carried out in one part of the territories, and then, after Israel has reestablished its local power there, they are transferred to a previously quiescent area.

Palestinian refugee camps provide major centers for the resistance, but Palestinian Arabs living in more affluent circumstances also participate, and some Israeli Arabs show their sympathy with the goals of the uprising.

During its first year, more than three hundred Palestinians are killed, more than eleven thousand five hundred wounded (nearly two-thirds of whom are under fifteen years of age), and many more arrested.

Israel closes universities and schools, destroyed houses, and imposes curfews—yet is unable to quell the uprising.