IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
A bill that opponents say targets Israeli human rights groups critical of Israel's policies towards the Palestinians won initial approval in parliament on Monday with the support of right-wing parties. Called a "transparency bill" by its sponsor, far-right Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, the legislation would require NGOs to give details of overseas donations in all their official publications...
on February 8, 2016
A Palestinian prisoner Haitham Jabeir from Salfit in the occupied West Bank is not receiving proper care from Israeli prison services for his seriously deteriorating health, according to a local NGO serving prisoners and their families. The 40-year-old is suffering from severe headaches and frequent vomiting, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said after visiting Jabeir at Remon Prison on Thursday.
on July 16, 2015
A video released by a watchdog Monday challenges an Israeli account that a soldier was in danger when he shot dead a Palestinian who fled after stoning his jeep. Mohammad Kasba, 17, was shot dead on July 3 by Colonel Israel Shomer after stoning his military vehicle close to the Qalandia checkpoint, south of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
on July 13, 2015
A Palestinian rights group on Monday rejected the Israeli narrative of the death of 17-year-old Muhammad Hani al-Kasbah, who was shot dead by an Israeli commander in Qalandiya last week. Al-Haq, which has consultative status with the UN, said that a field investigation found that Israeli soldiers "arbitrarily shot and killed Muhammad, who posed no threat to the Israeli soldiers' lives at the time of the shooting."
on July 6, 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
Located a mere 100 meters from the illegal Israeli settlement of the same name, the 300 or so villagers of Susiya face imminent displacement after Israel's High Court of Justice in May rejected a petition filed by residents to halt demolition orders for the village.
on June 2, 2015
On the night of 23 February 2015, Israeli troops arrived at the Wadi a-Nasarah neighborhood of Hebron and entered the apartments of ten families in two buildings. The soldiers demanded that the parents wake their children, and then proceeded to ask the children to state their names and photographed them. The incident was filmed by May Da’na and her brother-in-law Nayef Da’na, B'Tselem camera volunteers who live in one of the two buildings.
on March 24, 2015
Josh Harkinson reports for Mother Jones that a global nonprofit called Avaaz has petitioned the Internal Revenue Service to revoke the charitable status of the Hebron Fund, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that provides financial support to Israeli settlers in Hebron, a community in the Occupied West Bank.
on March 16, 2015
Six months after the ceasefire, Gaza’s residents are still eking out a perilous existence in the shadow of ruined buildings. Traumatised children struggle with the horrors they have seen and teenagers lose hope in the future, said aid agencies, who criticised international donors for reneging on pledges to help.
on February 26, 2015