Damage to Al Quds campus in the Abu Deis suburb of Jerusalem following an October raid.
Mojama'a Alanshita
Classes at Al-Quds University have been disrupted by violence, but students are still struggling to learn.
Reuters/Amir Cohen
Violence has become a daily occurrence in Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank and the body count is rising.
Despondent: Mahmoud Abbas addresses the UN.
EPA/Andrew Gombert
In a grim week at the UN General Assembly, the key partners in the Middle East peace process made it clear they’ve lost patience.
Mohammed Saber/EPA
Journalists can go where diplomats can’t: but that doesn’t make it easy.
Residents of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip watch a parade by the military wing of Hamas to mark the anniversary of the war with Israel.
AAP/Newzulu/Mhmed Ali
Although Hamas also wants a return to normalcy in the Gaza Strip, it is potentially a double-edged sword for the movement.
Palestinian workers on the West Bank.
Reuters/Ammar Awad
Israeli employers have always had a complicated relationship with Palestinian workers – and it’s getting worse.
Not much of a weapons system.
EPA/Abed Al Haslhamoun
Israel’s official policy treats stone throwing as ‘a real mortal threat’. The question is, who to?
Iron grip: Hamas leader Khaled Mashal.
EPA/Jamal Nasrallah
Reports of Hamas’s human rights abuses against Palestinians are mounting, and popular support falling – but the movement is going nowhere.
BDS protesters on the West Bank in May 2015.
EPA/Abed Al Haslhamoun
Israel’s prime minister is using boycott fears to distract attention from his government’s increasingly right-wing agenda.
Time to reflect.
Chatham House/Wikimedia Commons
Blair’s time as peace envoy left a lot to be desired.
“You’re offside Sepp.”
EPA/Amos Ben Gershom
Palestine is spearheading an international effort to get Israel booted out of FIFA – but the organisation just wants to stay out of politics.
President Obama shakes hands with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman in January 2015.
REUTERS/Jim Bourg
Hype over the absence of the Saudi king at US-Gulf Cooperation Council summit obscures the real issues facing the US and its Arab allies.
Tough call: Benjamin Netanyahu and Naftali Bennett.
EPA/Abir Sultan
Benjamin Netanyahu has kept his government going by doing a deal with a party even more right-wing than his former allies. There could be trouble ahead.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
We are used to thinking of Gaza as a war-torn stretch of ground. A place where life goes grimly on in the face of an intractable conflict. A graveyard not only for civilians caught in the crossfire, but…
‘Now I’m gladhanding you in droves’.
EPA/Topaz Luk
A startling election victory has delivered the Likud leader with a range of options and left the opposition in disarray.
‘Don’t look at him, François.’
EPA/Philippe Wojazer
The EU’s millions in aid to Palestinian territories has come to very little – and Netanyahu’s re-election demands a new approach.
By bringing together Arab political parties in the Joint List, Ayman Odeh has emerged as leader of the third-largest party in Israel.
EPA/Atef Safadi
The emergence of the Joint List as the third-largest party is evidence of both Israeli democracy and a growing awareness among the nation’s Arab citizens of their power to influence its direction.
Victory all the sweeter for being thought unlikely.
EPA/Abir Sultan
The Likud Party, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has won a dramatic victory in the Israeli election that few had predicted.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rival and Isaac Herzog are pictured together as billboards rotate.
Baz Ratner/Reuters
Today’s elections in Israel could be one of the most significant in the country’s recent history.
Could Israel’s second-longest serving PM be staring at defeat?
EPA/Jim Hollander
If Israel’s right-wing government hadn’t tried to shut Arab parties out of the Knesset, it might be doing better in the election now.