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Al-Aqsa Intifada: West Bank
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At the onset of the al-Aqsa Intifada, there were approximately 200'000 Israeli settlers scattered throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and another 200'000 living in East Jerusalem 12. Polls - conducted in the West Bank and Gaza Strip only - indicated that the motivation of most of these settlers is primarily economic (settlers receive income tax break, housing grants, subsidized mortgages, free schooling and free school busing, grants for businesses, etc). Only 27% said that their motivation was religious and/or ideological. These are the settlers represented by the settlement movement, a loose collection of groups more or less united in their view that the "re-settling" of Jews in Judea and Samaria is part of a divine process that will eventually lead to the End of Days, the coming of the Messiah and the redemption of mankind. These settlers believe that it would obviously be ideal if the Land of Israel would be inhabited only by Jews, and that even illegal means are justified in achieving this goal. A few hundreds of these settlers are ready to put the principles into practice.
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Since the beginning of Al Aqsa Intifada till October 31,2002, the educational sector has lost 277 students and almost 9690 were injured. More than 75 teachers and 166 students were arrested. The Israeli forces have ... closed 7 schools and the educational life of more than 850 schools all over the West Bank. Quds (December 20,2002).
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In the first few days of the Intifada, the IDF fired about 700,000 bullets in the West Bank, and 300,000 in Gaza. In the first six days of the Intifada, 61 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and 2,657 were injured, many of them children. At the same time four Israelis were killed, with 35 wounded.
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The Ministry of Agriculture had announced recently that the amount of losses in the agricultural sector since the beginning of Al Aqsa Intifada till November 2002 has reached to 823,810,217 US dollars. This loss has resulted from Israeli Violations against Palestinian lands in the West Bank through land confiscation, uprooting of trees, destruction of agricultural building and wells and obstructing the import and export processes.
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The present Intifada is distinguished by a unique unanimity of intent and motivation among all sectors of Palestinian society. Palestinians on the streets of Gaza, Jerusalem, and the West Bank are using similar slogans to express their state of despair and their loss of confidence in the peace process. They have united for the first time with the Palestinians living inside the Green Line, as well as with those living in refugee camps in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
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