IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
An international conference to promote the Trump administration's $50-billion economic support plan for the Palestinians kicks off in Bahrain.
on June 27, 2019
A new report by a Palestinian human rights group has slammed Israel’s practice of withholding tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority. As part of agreements signed under the Oslo accords, Israel collects taxes from Palestinians in the West Bank and is supposed to then transfer the monies to the PA.
on April 10, 2015
A standoff over Israel’s withholding of tax payments to the Palestinian Authority has drawn mounting complaints of hardship in the West Bank, where civil servants have seen their salaries slashed and some teachers don’t have enough cash to commute to work, according to officials. Abdel Rahman Bayatneh, spokesman for Palestinian Authority’s Finance Ministry, said some hospitals in the West Bank are running short of medicine.
on March 10, 2015
The Palestinian economy experienced further deterioration in 2014, particularly in the second half of the year, as a result to the recent Israeli aggression on Gaza, according to the Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA). PMA’s Economic Forecasts Report (2015) revealed that the Israeli assault brought all economic activities and the entire production process to a halt.
on December 22, 2014
Recommended Reports
There is no shortage of food in Gaza, but severe poverty has increased over years of closure and in part due to travel restrictions. More than 70% of the population currently receives humanitarian aid. The official unemployment figure true to the first quarter of 2014 was 40.8% (compared to 18.7% in 2000).
on May 8, 2014
he international aid and development group Oxfam has distanced itself from one of its own global ambassadors, the actress Scarlett Johansson, since she agreed to become the face of SodaStream, an Israeli company that makes products in a settlement built on West Bank territory Israel has occupied since 1967.
on January 25, 2014
Fact Sheets
The following fact sheet provides an overview of 45 years of Israel's occupation and settlement enterprise. (Photo: Patricia Schneidewind / IMEU)
on May 29, 2012
Palestine 101
Palestinian women work in agriculture (most commonly on family farms), and as textile workers, teachers, engineers, clerical workers, doctors, lawyers, and judges. Still, Palestinian women face substantial obstacles to employment, and have been differentially impacted by the closures and other restrictions of movement imposed by Israel over the last decade.
on October 4, 2005