September 28, 2000 (BBC version).
Today, the Jerusalem Post has the sad statistics.
In the five years of violence, a total of 1,061 Israelis were killed and murdered and 6,089 wounded in a total of 26,159 attacks carried out in Israel as well as in the West Bank and Gaza
And grim predictions for the future.
Sources in the security establishment estimate that in the coming year, terror groups will increase their efforts to transfer knowledge and weapons, including Kassam rockets, to the West Bank, which is expected to become the main arena for Palestinian terror since the IDF pullout from Gaza.
The western Negev will become the main weapons smuggling route for terrorists in the coming year, and terror organizations are expected to increase their efforts to smuggle weapons from the Sinai into Israel via the western Negev, and transfer it to the West Bank, the sources said.
The possibility that Al Qaeda operatives succeeded in entering Gaza in the days the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the PA areas were forced open cannot be ruled out, the sources said. According to the report, 3,000 rifles, 150 rocket propelled grenades, one and a half million bullets and scores of handguns and tons of explosives entered Gaza during the few days the border between Egypt and the Palestinian side of Rafah remained open.
Here's a good summary of the events leading up to and following the start of the terror war (although this piece insists on using the misnomer "intifada." It's not an intifada.)
