IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
Environmental apartheid refers to Israel’s systematic exploitation of the environment in Palestine/Israel and the discriminatory system by which Palestinians are dispossessed of their land, water, and other natural resources while being disproportionately impacted by ecological damage caused by Israel.
on November 3, 2022
A draft United Nations resolution calling for a team of UN experts to assess the environmental impact of Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip in November 2012 and July-August 2014 was effectively “buried” by the United States, Canada and Israel on Saturday.
on June 1, 2016
What do you think of when you think of a desert? An area with little precipitation, mostly uninhabited except perhaps by nomads? An empty place with no history, waiting to be filled with people and vegetation? A new book by Professor of Architecture Eyal Weizman and photographer Fazal Sheikh unpacks these assumptions, and exposes how they are being used by Israel in displacing its Bedouin citizens in the Negev.
on March 14, 2016
Israeli forces early Tuesday destroyed hundreds of forest trees in a natural reserve to the east of Tubas, in the northeastern West Bank, according to head of Wadi Maleh village council, Aref Daraghmeh. He informed WAFA that Israeli forces, accompanied with bulldozers and staff from the civil administration, stormed a natural reserve to the east of Tubas, and destroyed the forest trees.
on June 16, 2015
It was dark in Gaza City when the teenage boy came home from work, in February 2013. His squat apartment building was missing a wall, destroyed some time before in the war between Israel and the Palestinians. But where else could he go? In the dark, he tripped on rubble and fell out of the building, three stories down...
on June 2, 2015
As Nepal struggles to cope with the aftermath of Saturday’s horrific earthquake, with countries around the world sending rescue teams and offering financial and logistical support, Israel has once again demonstrated its impressive ability to mobilize quickly and assist disaster-stricken nations.
on April 29, 2015
On 16 April, nearly forty students at Wesleyan University in Connecticut held a sit-in protest inside the office of university President Michael Roth. They demanded that the college divest from fossil fuels, the prison industry and companies that profit from the Israeli occupation in Palestine.
on April 22, 2015
Up a small, bumpy road on a hill overlooking the northern West Bank town of Jenin, a food revolution is slowly taking shape. Blessed with a temperate climate and just a stone's throw away from the fertile soils of the Lower Galilee, the area has long been home to some of Palestine's most bountiful agricultural production.
on April 8, 2015
Israeli authorities on Thursday destroyed around 120 olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers in the northern West Bank, bringing the total number of olive trees destroyed across the region in the last month to nearly 2,000. Farmers living in the village of Wadi Qana near Salfit told Ma'an that Israeli military vehicles accompanied by vehicles belonging to the nature and environmental protection agency of the Israeli civil administration raided the area Thursday morning.
on April 2, 2015