As the death toll from Israel's aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip continues to climb, Al Jazeera asked Gazans to describe the situation where they are and to explain how the offensive is affecting them. 　　Majed Badra, 23, Gaza City, cartoonist and student at the Islamic Universitysaid: 　　"Unfortunately the situation... More

　　Maintaining a night vigil along the border with Israel, Hamas fighters sat within reach of a device connected to wires running underground. 　　"What you see are little surprises, but what awaits (the Israelis) is beyond their imagination," said Abu Sakher, a Hamas battalion commander making the rounds of frontier positions... More

　　"It is so much more than disappointment," explains Abir, a Gazan now living in the West Bank city of Ramallah. 　　"In my worst nightmares I never imagined that Gaza would literally be slaughtered and the West Bank would be quiet." 　　While protests against the Israeli assaults on Gaza have surged... More

　　The prominent Muslim scholar Dr. Youssef al-Qaradaawi strongly criticized Israel over its unjust assault on Gaza and appealed to the United States to end its support for the Jewish state. 　　"Our message to the aggressor Jews ... who rely on the power, money, arms of America and its veto power... More

　　IN the annals of war crimes, the name "Zeitoun" will assume its place alongside names like "My Lai," "Fallujah," "Sabra-Shatila," "Guernica," "Nanking," "Lidice," and "Wounded Knee." 　　In the last two days, the massacre that took place in Zeitoun, a neighborhood on the southern flats approaching Gaza City, has only now... More

　　By: Khalid Mish'al 　　For 18 months my people in Gaza have been under siege, incarcerated inside the world's biggest prison, sealed off from land, air and sea, caged and starved, denied even medication for our sick. After the slow death policy came the bombardment. In this most densely populated of... More

　　Sloganeers, propagandists and politicians often use the word "genocide" in ways that the law does not permit. But rarely is the crime of genocide invoked when Western militaries murder Muslim groups. 　　This essay argues that the internationally recognized crime of genocide applies to the intentional killings that NATO troops commit... More

　　Startling-and stomach turning: where Palestinians are involved, memory and sense of proportion fail us. The Jewish conscience, justifiably, has long called upon the world's powers and upon their citizens to remain vigilant, never to forget -in the name of "the duty of memory"- the atrocities, massacres and genocides of the... More

　　As students filed into the courtyard of Asma elementary school in Gaza City for the first time since the Israeli offensive began, they were greeted by a bleak reminder of the violence that left more than 1,300 Palestinians dead and thousands injured. 　　A hole punched by an Israeli rocket scarred... More

　　The war on Gaza has taken a heavy emotional and mental toll on the people of the Gaza Strip. Doctors say that at least half of the population need professional help to come to terms with the war. 　　Palestinian men have been hit especially hard. Many of them have spent... More

　　Israel's three-week war on Gaza caused billions of dollars in damage and left the already-tattered local economy on the verge of collapse. 　　Some of the world's richest countries - including the US which has promised a $20-million aid package - have pledged monies to rebuild the Gaza Strip. 　　Al Jazeera's... More

　　Five-year-old Mohammed al-Najjar lets his mind wander as he puts crayon to paper in an effort to depict an Israeli air strike inside a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. 　　"This is the plane and those are two missiles it fired. They hit a house and the house was damaged... More

　　Shifa hospital received hundreds of bodies of those killed and thousands of those wounded during the December 27, 2008 - January 18, 2009 22-day attack, invasion and occupation of Gaza by the Israeli military. 　　Now in front of Shifa hospital was a tent filled with military armaments -- rocket parts,... More