Original sentence: According to the Palestinian Human Rights group MIFTAH, founded by prominent Palestinian academic Hanan Ashrawi, as of November 2005 there have been 4,162 Palestinians killed by Israeli Defense Forces and Israeli settlers, with an additional 36,500 Palestinians injured.Although large numbers of Palestinians continue to be killed, in the months after the death of Yasser Arafat on November 11, 2004 it is suggested by some Israeli observers that the Intifada has come to an end.An Israeli Human Rights group B'Tselem estimated the number of Palestinians killed during the uprising to be around 4000.The al-Aqsa Intifada began in late September, 2000, in the wake of a provocative election-season visit by Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon and a large contingent of armed bodyguards to the Temple Mount/Al-Haram As-Sharif complex in Jerusalem, at which time Sharon declared the area eternal Israeli territory.The violent Israeli repression of legitimate Palestinian resistance to occupation, as well as the nature of its ongoing response to illegal Palestinian terrorist actions committed inside Israel, West Bank and Gaza, have been strongly condemned for including multiple violations of international law and humanitarian law by the United Nations General Assembly and virtually all leading human rights organizations in the world, although Israel defends its actions as necessary for its security.Widespread riots broke out in Old Jerusalem and many major Israeli cities, and several hundred Palestinians in the Occupied Territories were killed within days, including a number of Palestinian-Israelis living within Israel
Edited sentence: The al-Aqsa Intifada began in late September, 2000, in the wake of a visit by Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon and a large contingent of armed bodyguards to the Temple Mount/Al-Haram As-Sharif complex in Jerusalem, at which time Sharon declared the area eternal Israeli territory.Widespread riots broke out in Old Jerusalem