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
Gaza's children suffer as conflict enters the classroom
'There is no normal childhood'
'They say they have the right to shoot at us and kill us'
Samir, a Gazan boy, is haunted by the death of his brother during an Israeli rocket attack
'Everyone is thinking for themselves'
In the cramped three-room home she shares with her 10 children, Etedal Zanati faces a daily battle to keep them fed and clothed. Rory McCarthy reports
'We are almost dead. We have no money, nothing'
Siege of Gaza squeezes life out of the land
Meet the Bakrs ... a middle-class family from Gaza
'Who'll look after my little ones when I'm gone?'
Martin Godwin joins a fishing boat from Gaza City to the limits of where Israeli naval patrols allow the men to work
'A disaster for everybody'
Sea blockade sees dry patch for Gaza's fishermen
Egyptian mediator to meet Israelis after Hamas agrees ceasefire plan
The blockade and the smugglers
