Gush Etzion junction – the West Bank roundabout that became a symbol of escalating violence

In the middle of the huge tarmac roundabout of the Gush Etzion junction in the occupied West Bank, a group of yeshiva students sit on plastic chairs reciting prayers as part of a protest.
An Israeli army officer comes to talk with them and asks them to move on, citing not only the risk to the students but saying that – while they are sitting there – the army will be required to protect them.
The reason for the warning is in evidence only100 metres away, where a makeshift memorial of broken rocks and a bunch of fading flowers marks the spot where Hadar Buchris, a 21-year-old Israeli student, was stabbed to death by a Palestinian assailant next to a bus stop on Sunday.