Israel could not provide an exact number of how many protesters had been killed. But the Israeli military said Monday that 10 protesters were killed after they threw makeshift firebombs and started a fire that set off land mines near the border town of Quneitra, on the Syrian side of the lines.

“There were also a lot of shows being put on for the cameras,” said Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, a spokeswoman for the Israeli military. “If somebody was shot in the toe, 30 people would crowd around with a stretcher. At night, when there was no shooting, the ambulances kept running up and down, their lights flashing in the dark.”

A tense calm prevailed in the north on Monday, and the West Bank and Gaza were also quiet.

Both Israel and the Palestinians have been under increasing international pressure to resume long-stalled peace talks before September, when negotiations for a Palestinian state that started last year were supposed to conclude. The Palestinians refused to continue negotiating after an Israeli moratorium on settlement construction expired. In the absence of an agreement on terms to resume talks, the Palestinians said they would turn to the United Nations for recognition.

Analysts here are warning that there could be violence if Palestinian expectations are inflated, then dashed when nothing much changes, especially given the wider turmoil in the region and the phenomenon of networking by Arab youth activists on Facebook and Twitter.

At least for now, though, most Palestinians seem to be displaying little appetite for a mass popular uprising.

Hamas, the Islamic militant group, said in its statement on Monday that the recent marches on the borders “bring closer victory and the end of the occupation.”

Fayez Abu Aita, a Fatah spokesman, said in his party’s statement that the Palestinian people’s continued struggle had “transformed the historic tragedy of the ‘naksa’ into heroic pictures of sacrifice.” Naksa refers to the Arab defeat in the 1967 war.