11.   At the Ramallah Hospital, they had watched bloodied Palestinian youths being carried in on stretchers.

12.   At one point, Palestinian youths stormed the one-story building and climbed atop its roof, tearing down the Israeli flag and hoisting a Palestinian one.

13.   Barghouti has steered the funeral processions to Israeli checkpoints, where Palestinian youths vent their rage with stones and molotov cocktails, and the cycle of violence is continues.

14.   A Palestinian teen-ager was killed and another was wounded Thursday in the West Bank when a Jewish settler fired at a group of Palestinian youths.

15.   A three-day battle between Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers raged in Bethlehem, beaming worldwide the old images of renewed conflict.

16.   After weekly prayers at Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, some Palestinian youths began stoning Israeli police officers.

17.   After the noon Muslim prayers, thousands of Palestinian youths marched on an Israeli post at Rafah on the southern border with Egypt, throwing stones and gasoline bombs.

18.   All that is far removed from the reality of the Palestinian youth, and only slightly older Israeli soldiers, facing off daily at Erez and numerous other flashpoints.

19.   But it may not take much more than a few rock-throwing Palestinian youths to convince the Likud that the Palestinians have gone back on their word.

20.   Daily clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers have left hundreds injured.