We are Americans who are addressing you from inside Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s besieged compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Read more about An open letter to the American public from Arafat's compound 

‘When they begin shelling the houses, we want to go to our relatives’. So we all go to my brother’s house next to us. We all move over there. Then the Israeli soldiers come with the bulldozer and the tank. They tell us to come out of the house. Read more about Three testimonies from Jenin 

The reality left behind by the Israelis in Jenin Refuge Camp defies even the most vicious imagination. One after another, the people of Jenin have been trying to tell anyone in the world who will listen what they have witnessed and lived through since the beginning of their most recent tragedy on April 3, 2002. Read more about Journalism in Jenin: No Honor Among Thieves 

Last week, PM Sharon declared that “Operation Defensive Shield” ended. The image that the government seeks to project is that the fighting is over. Read more about On the ground: continued violence 

It’s a difficult thing to comprehend a willing descent into a place of mass suffering. Usually, such things are random and so temporary that one cannot plan for it. Read more about Jenin: Not of this Earth, Part I 

Since the 29th of March this year the majority of Palestinian towns, cities and villages have come under sustained systematic attack from the Israeli army. Read more about Curfew, closure, re-occupation and isolation 

I am back in Ramallah -after spending over three weeks in Jerusalem, imposing myself on different friends there. Read more about Ramallah: Everyone has a story