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 composed his first poem at the age of 12, going on to publish more than 20 volumes of poetry throughout his lifetime, penning verse that became embedded into the Palestinian consciousness. He lived a life of resistance, jailed several times by the Israelis.
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.
More than 30 Fatah supporters who fled into Israel on Saturday night, have now been returned to Gaza and are under Hamas Security forces’ detention.
A prominent Fatah leader was among the more than 150 Palestinians who sought refuge to escape the most fierce fighting in the Gaza Strip since Hamas took control of the area over a year ago.
The clashes have left at least nine people dead and nearly 100 wounded.
A Jazeera’s Zeina Awad reports on the price Palestinians have to pay for the bitter internal split between Hamas and Fatah.
After a five year legal battle, Israel’s high court decided to move a stretch of its separation barrier in the West Bank.
Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from the town of Jeyyus where the court’s ruling is a small victory for Palestinian residents cut off from their own land.