Since the outbreak of the current Palestinian uprising in early October in the West Bank and Jerusalem, young people have been the most involved in the daily incidents with the Israeli military. They are either the perpetrators of stabbings or vehicular attacks or the victims. According to a survey published by Al-Quds Center for Political Studies, 45 Palestinians under 20 had been killed as of Dec. 10, 40% of the total dead. Most of them died in field clashes with the Israeli military in some regions of the West Bank, according to the survey.

The unrest has led to the formation of the Intifada Youth Coalition, created to lead activities, demonstrations and confrontations with the Israelis. This coalition seems to be a substitute for the organizational field formations that were established in the previous intifadas.

The Unified National Leadership of the Uprising (UNLU) was established by the Palestine Liberation Organization during the first intifada, also known as the stone-throwing intifada, in late 1987. It initially included Fatah and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP).

The second intifada, also known as Al-Aqsa intifada, involved the 2000 formation of the National and Islamic Forces, which included various Palestinian factions such as Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad and the DFLP, to manage the daily activities of the intifada. The UNLU stopped its activities in 1994 after the end of the first intifada, but the National and Islamic Forces are still operational to this day.