People duck and scatter as 'rubber' bullets and live ammunition slice up the street.
In the background, ambulances wait to take injured demonstrators to Ramallah hospital. Photo by Yasser Darweesh . After four years of living here, two of which followed these particularly severe clashes, with their high level of people killed, I genuinely do not know. I suspect it has something to do with the daily humiliation at checkpoints and a feeling of powerlessness in the face of ever-progressing Israeli land confiscation, which combine to build to unimaginable levels of frustration and tension. In addition, everyone has a personal grudge to settle.