Fighting has cut off food and medical supplies to 18,000 desperate refugees.
![Baby Israa al-Masri died of a hunger-related illness on January 11, 2014 in the Yarmouk camp [AP]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/201412981119574734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Fighting has cut off food and medical supplies to 18,000 desperate refugees.
![Baby Israa al-Masri died of a hunger-related illness on January 11, 2014 in the Yarmouk camp [AP]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/201412981119574734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Polluted water and lack of treatment plants have hurt the environment as well as human health in the West Bank.
![Polluted water in the West Bank has caused skin diseases and respiratory difficulties [Eric Reidy/Al Jazeera]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013121614647479734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
West Bank farmers are developing self-sustaining practices as a way to protest the Israeli occupation.
![Growing crops internally provides an alternative to industrialised Israeli food products [Eric Reidy/Al Jazeera]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/20131021105248707580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
In Izmir, on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, the crackdown on smuggling boats has frustrated refugees and locals alike.

Proposed legislation could grant amnesty to many who benefitted from the previous regime, critics say.

Mass unemployment is gripping Tunisia’s troubled mining regions, while the country’s tourism sector gets a major blow.

A new commission will be reviewing the cases of victims of Tunisia’s past regimes, yet some doubt its potential.

Desperate and vulnerable, many attempting the deadly journey from Africa to Europe end up in Tunisia after boats sink.

Residents of Tunisia’s border town of Dehiba struggle to make a living amid governmental neglect and illegal trade.

Tunisians fear consequences of the museum attack on the economy and democratic transition.
