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2001 - First year of Intifada

Summary of the most importent events of the year

 21.01.2001 - Taba Summit

 

 The Taba summit also known as the permanent status talks at Taba between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, held from January 21 to January 27, 2001 at Taba in the Sinai Peninsula, were peace talks aimed at reaching the "final status" negotiations to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The summit came closer to reaching a final settlement than any previous or subsequent peace talks yet ultimately failed to achieve its goals

06.02.2001 - Ariel Sharon PM

 On February 6, 2001, Ariel Sharon was elected as the new prime minister of Israel, and he refused to meet in person with the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Sharon commited horrible crimes such as: the Sabra & Shatila massacre.

27.08.2001 - The assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa

 Abu Ali Mustafa, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was assassinated by an Israeli missile shot by an Apache helicopter through his office window in Ramallah

 

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