Israel’s year-long blockade on Gaza has led to high unemployment and inflation rates in the territory.
Just before the start of the new school year, many families are scrambling to buy basic items such as uniforms and notebooks for their children.
But as Ashraf Amritti reports, they are luxuries many Palestinians simply cannot afford.
Mahmoud Darwish, The award-winning Palestinian poet, has died aged 67, after heart surgery in a Texas hospital.
Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland takes a look at a man who widely loved man by Palestinians and poetry-lovers alike.
Ehud Olmert, Israel’s prime minister, was under growing pressure to resign amid allegations that he recieved politically-motivated funding before he became head of the Israeli cabinet.
An investigation into the 15 years of funding is the latest incident to hit Olmert’s once-glittering career.
Al Jazeera’s David Chater discusses his political legacy.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers have shot dead a nine-year-old Palestinian boy, near the village of Ni’lin, according to witnesses.
It happened at the end of a demonstration against the separation barrier Israel is building.
The Israeli military say they will conduct a full investigation.
Jacky Rowland reports.
It is a city torn by politics and war, but whatever a citizens’ race or religion, much of their customary street food is the same. Street Food asks what this says about a shared identity and how much hope it offers for the future?