A week in Gaza
This week George Bush flies to the Middle East in another effort to revive peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
But the one subject that won't be on their agenda is Gaza, the small, overcrowded strip of land sliding ever deeper into economic catastrophe.
All this week the Guardian reports on the effects of the crisis on the ordinary people of Gaza
But the one subject that won't be on their agenda is Gaza, the small, overcrowded strip of land sliding ever deeper into economic catastrophe.
All this week the Guardian reports on the effects of the crisis on the ordinary people of Gaza
'We are almost dead. We have no money, nothing'
Her bed is on the third floor of Gaza's Shifa hospital, where shafts of warm afternoon sunshine reach in from the window. The ward is crowded, and the bed on which Asma'a Abu Me'tiq lay is curtained off from the rest and surrounded by the blankets her sister-in-law uses when she sleeps on the floor next to her at night
