Editing October 2000 protests in Israel (section)

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{{Short description|Civil unrest among Israeli Arabs}}
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[[File:Andartnazareth.jpg|thumb|Monument to Israeli Arab casualties in October 2000 riots, Nazareth]]
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The '''October 2000 protests''', also known as '''October 2000 events''',  were a series of protests in Arab villages in northern [[Israel]] in October 2000 that turned violent, escalating into rioting by [[Arab citizens of Israel|Israeli Arabs]], which led to counter-rioting by [[Israeli Jews]] and clashes with the [[Israel Police]] and ending in the deaths of 13 Arab demonstrators and 1 Israeli Jew.<ref>{{cite web|title=Extremism isn't Growing, but Fear is|author=Yair Ettinger|publisher=Ha'aretz|accessdate=20 February 2006|url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=431598&contrassID=2&subContrassID=20&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y}}</ref><ref name="Rabinowitz" >Dan Rabinowitz, [http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/october-2000-revisited-1.137855 'October 2000, revisited,'] [[Haaretz]]  19 October 2004</ref>

The [[Or Commission]] was established to investigate the police response to the rioting. Israeli media outlets refer to the episode  as ''אירועי אוקטובר 2000'' - the "October 2000 events"<ref>{{cite news|title=Families of October 2000 victims reject compensation|author=Sharon Roffe-Ofir|newspaper=Ynetnews |publisher=[[YNet]]|date= 20 November 2006|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3330476,00.html}}</ref> while the Arab community refers to it as the "October ignition" ({{Langx|ar|هبة أكتوبر|hibba ʾUktūbir}}).