Bombs and pogroms
In a week that witnessed Israeli settlers go on a rampage in Hebron, killing a young girl and injuring 20 people, Palestinians in Nablus began a tentative collective resistance to the curfew. Khaled Amayreh reports from Hebron

'They will never break his spirit'
The wife of jailed Fatah leader, Marwan Barghouti, is urging supporters of the Palestinian cause to use her husband's trial to expose the horrors of Israel's 35-year-long occupation, reports Khaled Dawoud

Suffer the little children
Most of the victims of Israel's attack on a residential area in Gaza were children. Taghreed El-Khodary tells the story of seven of the 11 children who lost their lives

Too many cooks
Saber rattling in Washington is bringing to the fore latent differences among Iraqi dissident groups, writes Salah Hemeid

Fast forward
Peace must be in sight since the Sudanese president shook hands with the head of the country's most powerful armed opposition group, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Burying the ceasefire
Israel's bombing of Gaza last week not only killed 15 Palestinians. It buried the most serious Palestinian move toward a ceasefire in seven months, say Palestinians. Graham Usher reports from Jerusalem

'Not guns for hire'
Despite expectations that the US will go after Baghdad sooner or later, Kurds in Iraq are not sure that war would serve their interests, Maggy Zanger writes after a visit to Arabil