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The wreckage after a 2003 bus bombing in Haifa.
This intifada was more deadly than the first one. Over 1,000 Israelis were murdered in terrorist attacks during this period.
the Palestinian town of Ramallah, where they were arrested by Palestinian police and attacked by an angry mob that stormed the Palestinian police station in Ramallah. On October 12, 2000, First Corporal Yosef Avrahami and First Sergeant Vadim Norzhich—both 33-year-old reservists—were severely beaten, mutilated, and ultimately lynched.
As a response to Palestinian terrorism, the Israeli govern- ment made the decision to erect a security barrier to protect all Israeli citizens - Jewish and non-Jewish alike – from the violence.
The security barrier was built largely along the Green Line and natural landscapes that were conducive to security. The
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