We need your help to end one of the most obscene forms of state killing to be found anywhere in the world: the execution of child offenders. Executing juveniles violates international human rights law. Children should be protected not put to death.
Banning the vast majority of exports, raw materials and the movement of people has destroyed the economy of Gaza and pushed its population into unemployment, poverty and dependency on aid agencies for survival.
The children of Jahalin used to have a dangerous 10km trip to school. In 2009 an NGO helped to build one locally. Only one year on, the school faces demolition by Israeli authorities.
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was captured on 25 June 2006 by Palestinian armed groups in an attack on an army base in the south of Israel near the Gaza Strip.
Samar Barghouti, a Palestinian woman from Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has not been allowed to visit her husband since his arrest by the Israeli army and subsequent imprisonment more than four years ago.
Mordechai Vanunu is a former technician at Israel's nuclear plant near the southern town of Dimona. He spent 18 years in prison for revealing details of the country's nuclear arsenal to the British newspaper The Sunday Times in 1986.
