Three months into a wave of violence some have likened to a new uprising, the Palestinian Authority has found itself adrift and increasingly out of touch with frustrated youths behind the unrest, analysts say.

Young Palestinians see little hope of an independent state more than two decades after the Oslo Accords – and many do not feel President Mahmoud Abbas represents their concerns.

Palestinian elections have not been held in a decade due to the bitter split between Hamas and Abbas' Fatah, based in the occupied West Bank.

Violence since the start of October has claimed the lives of 140 on the Palestinian side, as well as 22 Israelis, an American and an Eritrean.

In the early stages of the unrest, PA security forces allowed crowds to approach checkpoints, where they protested and clashed with Israeli security forces.

More than 60 percent of the West Bank is already under complete Israeli control.

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