Clouds and rain. Lovely low clouds which hide plenty of things, including the mountains, the settlements and the tanks. For a moment you feel as if you are drinking your morning coffee on a piece of isolated, or liberated, dreamland where peace and harmony prevail. Read more about Letter from Palestine 

6:30a.m, and the refugee camp is alive with noises. There is electricity this morning and the appliances whir; the television is loud with news of lives no longer, re-occupations of Ramallah and al-Bireh. Read more about Waging war on the camps, once again 

The United States is entirely correct to insist that there can be no justification for the deliberate and indiscriminate use of violence - i.e. terrorism - against civilian non-combattants in political conflicts. Yet in the Middle East it has honoured this principle mainly in the breach, and applied it in a manner at best laughable. Read more about Washington's Lethal Double Standards 

There is little doubt that the recent intense developments have placed our region at a turning point. The previous fragile status quo has collapsed. Read more about On current events 

This is my fifth day of curfew, a new experience for me having left here last October and not being subjected to this new form of occupation. Read more about Days go by... 

F-16 Warplanes zoom overhead daily. In Rafah they’ve been breaking the sound barrier. At night you can watch flares light up the sky. Read more about Gaza: Summer in the Strip 

Squint and you can see more. Concentrate on a patch of blue into liquid mauve sky and there are little dots floating, small kites floating in the wind, from the rooftops under curfew. Read more about And they are like constellations of stars 

The current Israeli military incursion and complete re-occupation of the West Bank is about to enter its fifth week. Read more about This week in Palestine