1. On the same day a Palestinian youth died during unrest near Khan Yunis on the Gaza Strip. 2. In mid-April newspapers published interviews with an Israeli couple who had witnessed non-uniformed soldiers shooting Palestinian youths in the West Bank village of Dura. 3. An angry crowd gathered nearby, Palestinian youths juggling rocks on the Palestinian side, and Jewish settlers spewing fury on the other. 4. An Israeli refusal to release political prisoners, for example, prompted Palestinian youths to provoke violent clashes with Israeli soldiers. 5. Another shoot-out ensued, in which a Palestinian youth was killed. 6. Arafat has certainly lost much of his romantic appeal to disaffected Palestinian youth. 7. Arafat severed the negotiations, and once the bulldozers began work on the neighborhood, Har Homa, Palestinian youths took to the streets. 8. As word of the killings spread through the West Bank Fridayclashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces erupted. 9. At Israeli checkpoints outside Ramallah and Bethlehem, Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers clashed, while Palestinian police tried in vain to stop the youths from throwing stones. 10. At one point, settler and Palestinian youths exchanged stones despite an Israeli tank positioned between them. |