IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
Q&As
The IMEU offers the following expert roundtable Q&A on yesterday’s meeting between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the ongoing crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel, with analysts from Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.
on November 10, 2015
Fact Sheets
In light of today’s meeting at the White House between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the IMEU offers the following fact sheet, Five Questions President Obama Should Ask Prime Minister Netanyahu.
on November 9, 2015
Israel was the single largest user of explosive weapons among international states in 2014 as a result of its war on Gaza, a London-based NGO said this week, providing further testimony to its devastating use of force on the coastal territory last summer. A report said that Gaza saw one of the highest number of global casualties from explosive weapons as a result of Israel’s use of military force.
on June 26, 2015
Hundreds of Palestinian villagers in the northern Jordan Valley have been forcibly displaced this week as Israel conducts unprecedented military drills around villages near Tubas. The army drills, which began on Sunday, have seen a large-scale mobilization of Israeli military vehicles around villages east and south of Tubas.
on May 7, 2015
During the recent unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, I was struck by the similarities in media narratives of the black and Palestinian experiences. There is nothing new about the nature of these stories, but perhaps the parallels seem more striking given that the fatal shooting in Ferguson and the recent devastation of Gaza happened concurrently. And, no doubt, social media has played a role in opening space for mutual solidarity in ongoing struggles against violence and oppression, which brings people closer and weaves their stories together.
on September 4, 2014
Nearly two years after Israel said it would work to improve its treatment of the Palestinian children it detains, there have been a few small positive developments. But ill-treatment of Palestinian minors still appears to be ‘widespread, systematic and institutionalized,’ a report by Military Court Watch says.
on September 1, 2014
Britain, France and Germany have launched a fresh bid at the UN to end six weeks of violence in Gaza, after Israeli warplanes killed three top Hamas commanders, inflicting a heavy blow on the movement's armed wing.
on August 22, 2014
Fact Sheets
Since July 7, Israel has killed more than 1650 Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 286 children. Approximately 9000 others have been injured. The IMEU offers the following update on the situation in the Gaza Strip.
on August 2, 2014
A 72-hour ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was called off Friday morning after a mere two hours. Samer Badawi visited the Gazan towns of Shejaiya and Khuza’a, where people rushed to retrieve their belongings before the fighting resumed.
on August 1, 2014