The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is an authoritative English-language source of news and comment on developments in Israel and the Palestinian Territories.

BBC Online reports on the developments around the Middle East.

The Alternative Information Center is a useful source of news and analysis from the Palestinian Territories.

The Bitterlemons website publishes comment articles edited by both a Palestinian and an Israeli that aims to foster understanding between the two sides.

The U.S.-based Middle East Report has detailed analysis of the latest developments from the region.

The U.N. news service IRIN reports on humanitarian developments.

The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has information about refugees in the Palestinian Territories and neighbouring Arab countries, including numbers and locations for camps in the West Bank and Gaza.

Human Rights Watch reports on human rights violations in Israel and the Palestinian Territories.

The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs' monthly "Humanitarian Monitor" publishes detailed situation reports from the ground.

Belgian-based International Crisis Group has news and analysis.

The World Bank publishes economic statistics from West Bank and Gaza.

AlertNet lists contact details for relief agencies working in the Palestinian Territories.

In March 2008, a coalition of British aid agencies published a report saying that the Israeli blockade had created the worst humanitarian crisis in forty years, and that sanitation and health systems were on the point of collapse.