ABSTRACT

This chapter examines Israel's counter-terrorism and counterinsurgency strategy and campaigns particularly vis-à-vis Palestinian groups on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It will also briefly look at the Israeli Defence Forces' (IDF) conduct in Lebanon during its occupation of the country between 1982 and 2000; thereafter it will focus on Israel's counterinsurgency campaigns during the two Intifadas (1987–91 and 2000–6), periods in which its counterinsurgency and population control measures were seriously put to the test.