In 2002, under the pretext of security, the Israeli government began unilaterally constructing a wall to separate Palestinians in the occupied West Bank from Israel and occupied East Jerusalem, and from Israeli settlements built inside the West Bank. The IMEU offers the following explainer on Israel's West Bank wall.
on July 3, 2024Since Israel’s establishment in 1948, the United Nations and international community have not recognized the sovereignty of any country to any part of Jerusalem in the absence of a permanent peace agreement in the region.
on June 16, 2024Israeli settlements are segregated housing units for Jewish Israelis built illegally on Palestinian land occupied by the Israeli military in the June 1967 war.
on June 13, 2024Kahane was a far-right Jewish supremacist who espoused violence and wanted to establish a theocratic Jewish state and expel or enslave indigenous Palestinians.
on May 17, 2024Dov Lior is an influential extremist Israeli settler rabbi and leading figure in the religious Zionist movement; former longtime chief rabbi of Israel’s illegal settlements in Hebron and Kiryat Arba in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, and former head of the Council of Rabbis of Judea and Samaria [the West Bank].
on September 1, 2023