Violence escalates between Israelis and Palestinians.
Violence breaks out after an Israeli official's visit to a Jerusalem shrine.
A monologue about the Middle East written and performed by David Hare. A Daring Time to be Young Over the past month, television news has shown images of brutal fighting in the Middle East . You don't have to look closely to see the faces of the fighters are young. More than 130 people have been killed and more than 2,000 injured in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Most of the dead were Palestinian, and more than 30 were teenagers like 12-year old Mohammed Aldura who was killed by Israeli troops in a gun battle captured on tape by a TV news crew.