There is a bouquet of plastic purple flowers in the center of a cheap wooden table. It’s easier to stare at it than into the faces of either of the men speaking. The air is suffocatingly hot — no breeze passes through the half-open window. I’m thirsty but won’t drink the orange soda our host passes around in paper cups. Read more about Gaza: Blood for blood, a meditation on power 

Abu Ismail is sitting on a sofa as he speaks. The tape recorder sits on a low table in front of him, absorbing his voice, and the noise of mopeds and people from the alley outside. He is in his mid-sixties, but looks perhaps a little older. Read more about Back to Shatila 

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 

Last night two Palestinian boys were killed in an explosion in the Al-Ama’ari refugee camp in Ramallah. Eyewitnesses said that some children, who were playing football in the street, had found a pipe-like object lying on the ground. Read more about Two Palestinian children killed by explosive device 

For nearly a month, two million residents of the West Bank have been under almost constant curfew. This deliberate policy by the Israeli government has created a humanitarian disaster throughout the West Bank. Read more about Continuing Curfew Creates Humanitarian Disaster