Hamas formedTwenty years after the 1967 war, Palestinians launched their first intifada, or uprising.
It began in December 1987 after a traffic accident in which an Israeli truck crashed into a vehicle carrying Palestinian workers in Gaza's Jabalya refugee camp, killing four.
Israel stopped tens of thousands of Palestinian workers from entering the country, cutting off an important source of income.
Israeli air strikes crippled Gaza's only electrical power plant, causing widespread blackouts.
Israel took revenge, hammering Gaza with air strikes and razing entire districts in some of the worst blood-letting in the 75 years of conflict.
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