Ten years ago, Ariel Sharon marched on the symbolic heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and invoked one of the most famous phrases in Israeli history. "The Temple Mount is in our hands," he said, reiterating the radio broadcast from June 1967, when Israeli forces overran Jerusalem [GALLO/GETTY]
Published On 3 Oct 20103 Oct 2010
What began as a few hundred protesters throwing shoes at Sharon(***)s police escort erupted into demonstrations across the Palestinian territories [GALLO/GETTY]
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The following day, Israeli forces opened fire on crowds of unarmed demonstrators in al-Aqsa compound, killing seven and wounding more than 100 [GALLO/GETTY]
In Gaza, a French television crew captured footage of a boy called Mohammed al-Durrah being shot repeatedly by Israeli forces as he clung to his father [GALLO/GETTY]
Amos Malka, the head of Israeli military intelligence at the time, said that Israeli forces fired more than 1,300,000 bullets in the Palestinian territories in the first month of the intifada [GALLO/GETTY]
By the end of 2000, at least 275 Palestinians had been killed, according to the Israeli human rights group B(***)Tselem [GALLO/GETTY]
While the first intifada was defined by protests and stone-throwing, demonstrations during the second intifada were met with overwhelming force - making popular protests near impossible [GALLO/GETTY]
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Suicide attacks came to define the second intifada, but these did not begin in earnest until more than a year into the uprising [GALLO/GETTY]
Mahmoud Zahar, one of the founders of Hamas, points to the asymmetry of the conflict and the vast disparity in military capabilities [GALLO/GETTY]
In April 2002, Israel invaded the West Bank en masse in an operation called "Defensive Shield" [GALLO/GETTY]
Ariel Sharon(***)s "unilateral disengagement" saw the removal of settlers from Gaza and the "redeployment" of the Israeli army to the borders. It opened a new chapter in the conflict while in many ways quietening the intifada [GALLO/GETTY]
