Al-Aqsa Mosque is as quiet today as it was turbulent 20 years ago when it gave its name to the Palestinian uprising that began beneath its walls and carved a bloody new chapter in the Middle East.
Ziad Abu Zayyad, 33, poses for a photograph as the Dome of the Rock is seen in the background, at an observation point overlooking the Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem September 23, 2020. Picture taken September 23, 2020. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Now 33, and after two intifadas, the first in the late 1980s, the statehood that Abu Zayyad has sought all his life still seems as far off as it was then. Protests broke out around the hilltop plateau in the Old City compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and Jews as the Temple Mount, and quickly escalated.Israel blamed then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who two months earlier at Camp David had failed to clinch a peace agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
Growing up in Jenin, studying in Nablus and now working in Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinians’ limited self-rule administration, Anabtawi has watched her generation evolve since the “scary” intifada years.
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