The teenage Palestinian girls helping to carry rocks to the front-lines of stone-throwing protests in Ramallah have their nails brightly painted, are dressed in tight jeans and carry the latest smartphones in their fashionable handbags.
The stone-throwing, stabbings and shootings – in which seven Israelis and 28 Palestinians, including 10 alleged attackers and eight children, have died – have prompted comparisons with previous Palestinian uprisings in the 1980s and early 2000s, even if the violence is not yet equivalent.
In an attack Monday, Israeli police said two Palestinian boys, a 13-year-old and his 15-year-old cousin, stabbed two Israeli boys in a settlement to the north of Jerusalem.
That unrest began shortly after Israel's then-opposition leader, Ariel Sharon, visited the Noble Sanctuary in 2000 and ended five years later, after a campaign of suicide bombings of cafes and buses had left 1,000 Israelis and 3,000 Palestinians dead.
Even so, some Palestinians question where the current wave of violence will lead.
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