Despite Israel’s declared “easing” in June 2010 of the total siege on Gaza, manufacturers there are hurting badly. In June 2011 the World Food Programme (WFP) reported that “only 5 percent of the pre-blockade export volume was reached from November 2010 to April 2011.” Read more about Export bans - the other half of Israel's siege 

Every week a group of Palestinians risks death and injury by protesting at land confiscations near the Gaza-Israel boundary. Read more about Palestinians mark third year of Gaza "buffer zone" protests 

According to Hassan Saifi, a representative of the ministry for religious affairs in Gaza, a quarter of the Gaza Strip’s 800 mosques were damaged or destroyed in the Israeli attack on Gaza in winter 2008-09. Read more about Cash shortage hampers rebuilding of mosques destroyed by Israel 

Severe pollution and Israel’s frequent attacks on fishing vessels have made it healthier for Gazans to eat farmed fish rather than fish caught at sea. Read more about Siege and sewage make farmed fish a temporary option for Gaza 

Year by year, the warnings of Gaza’s health crisis grow more dire, with the latest warning from Gaza’s Ministry of Health stating the Strip is at emergency levels of medical supplies. Read more about Medical supplies at crisis level, Gaza health ministry warns 

The prospects of catching fish — and the future of Gaza’s once strong fishing industry — are more dire than ever with new Israeli restrictions. Read more about Gaza's fishing industry under fire 

While Lebanon’s Naksa Day demonstrations were prevented by Lebanese security, demonstrations went on throughout the occupied West Bank as well as by Palestine supporters worldwide. Read more about On Naksa Day, Palestinians carry on popular struggle 

A gleaming new memorial towers over the center of Gaza City’s battered port, bearing the names of the Turkish solidarity activists who died one year ago when Israeli commandos firing machine guns air-dropped onto the Freedom Flotilla. Read more about Second flotilla set to sail one year after massacre 

BEIT HANOUN, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - “We grow on our roof because we are farmers but have no land now,” says Moatassan Hamad, 21, from Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. “Our family is large and thankfully what we grow feeds us,” he says. They grow a variety of staple vegetables. Read more about Without land, Gaza farmers grow crops on roofs