East Jerusalem braces for a youth intifada in wake of killings
Israeli-occupied east of city has been seething since Jewish extremists killed a teen, with many predicting an uprising by young Palestinians
Tariq Abu Khdeir has been arrested twice this summer. The first time, Israeli police accused the 22-year-old of participating in the riots in July in East Jerusalem's Shuafat neighbourhood, following the kidnapping and murder by Jewish extremists of his 16-year-old cousin, Mohammed Abu Khdeir, whose burned body was found in the Jerusalem Forest.
Last week, the police came again, this time at 1.30am, accusing him and two other cousins of throwing stones at the light railway trains that run through East Jerusalem - a charge he denies.
Tariq Abu Khdeir is one of more than 700 Palestinians from East Jerusalem, 260 of them children as young as 13, who have been arrested in the continuing crackdown on what those on both sides have called the beginnings of a "kids' intifada".
However the events are defined, the situation in Jerusalem is as tense as it has been in years, a state of affairs that has worsened since Mohammed Abu Khdeir's murder, carried out in revenge for the kidnap and murder of three Israeli youths in the occupied West Bank.
The focus of the problems has been the city's east - the areas captured by Israeli forces in 1967 which, despite being claimed by Israel as part of its "undivided capital", are regarded by the international community as under Israeli occupation.
If many of the more serious outbreaks of violence have had proximate causes, many now believe they are becoming part of a pattern of a newly heightened antagonism in the city.