This section contains fifty-five documents pertaining to the two Palestinian Intifadas, or uprisings, that began in 1987 and 2000.

Although these conflicts are part of the escalating state of conflict in the region over control of former Palestinian territory, from a legal perspective, they differ from the five major Arab-Israeli wars in that international law defines them as non-international in character—they have not occurred between states. Yet the right of an occupied people to resist a belligerent occupation applies.

Many of the primary contentions over issues of sovereignty and self­determination that initially led to war in 1948 persist.

This section is divided into two sections: A. First Palestinian Intifada, containing Intifada and post-Intifada documents from 1987 to 1999; and B. Second Palestinian Intifada or Intifadet al-Aqsa, containing related documents from 2000 to 2004.