The Second Intifada, which had begun five years earlier, on September 28, 2000, ended. It was sparked by Likud party leader Ariel Sharon’s twenty-minute walk through the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The outbreak of violence was immediate and led immediately to armed clashes. This second intifada followed the first intifada of 1987-1993. During the Second Intifada, 3,839 Palestinians and 1,011 Israelis died, in addition to another 205 Palestinians killed by other Palestinians in what is known as the Intrafada, a campaign to track down and kill collaborators. Sixty-four percent of the Israelis killed were civilians, and 110 were children. The Second Intifada ended with the Sharm el-Sheikh summit in 2005, when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took definitive measures to ease hostilities.
