On September 28, 2000, a new Palestinian Intifada, the second, began. It was sparked by Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon’s twenty-minute walk through the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The outbreak of violence was extremely violent and immediately led 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 205 other Palestinians killed by other Palestinians in what was called 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 adopted definitive measures to ease hostilities.
