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It is considered a 'smaller games' for three reasons: attendance was significantly lower, particularly from the Australians (it sent only about 170 athletes, compared with around 400 in 1997); it was run at the height of the Second Intifada (and straight after the infamous Dolphinarium bombing—the largest of the Intifada—that killed 21 Israelis, mostly high school students); and not all wounds had been healed after the collapse of the bridge.
Made from raw material and equipment smuggled into the Gaza Strip using tunnels in Rafah, the al-Bana was the first example, during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, of Hamas' engineers capacity to produce relatively sophisticated weapons.
During the Al-Aqsa Intifada, the residents of Bardala stopped paying both water and electricity bills to the PNA, and, as a consequence the Palestinian authorities have delayed implementing infrastructural works, such as a dam and a water network for the village.
Even before the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, various militant Palestinian groups built domestically-produced weapons for use against the Israel Defense Forces and for attacks against Israel.
In 1998, two years before the Al-Aqsa intifada, Democrat member of United States House of Representatives Peter Deutsch and other congressmembers directed the State Department to ask UNRWA to investigate evidence that school books used in UNRWA-run schools in the West Bank and Gaza contained anti-Semitic statements.
The Second Intifada (also known as the al-Aqsa Intifada) was a violent uprising against the Israeli government that began in September 2000.