IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
Gaza
Report from Doctors Without Borders on the destruction and treachery Israel unleashes on Palestinians living under occupation in Gaza.
about 1 day ago
News & Analysis
Israeli forces destroyed a Palestinian home and the foundations of an elementary school in the occupied West Bank. After the destruction of the Rib’i family home, all their possessions were left in a pile outside. "Israel’s planning and building policy is designed to suffocate Palestinian development in their land.”
about 4 days ago
News & Analysis
Damian Lillard of the Portland Trailblazers met with 14-year-old Palestinian Thaer before last night’s big basketball game. Thaer lost his leg when Israel bombed his home in occupied Gaza during the 2014 50-day-long attack on the occupied Strip.
about 1 week ago
News & Analysis
The International Criminal Court is to begin investigating Israel for war crimes, but many are rightly skeptical and experts warn that heavy political pressure against the court could prolong the judicial process and even interfere in the investigation.
about 1 week ago
News & Analysis
Almost two years after Aisha Rabi was killed —when a 16-year-old Israeli settler hurled a massive rock at the windshield of her car— Israel is finally admitting the incident should be classified as a terror attack.
about 1 week ago
Maps
From September through November 2019 B'tselem documented instances of assault, theft, vandalism, threats and holdups that took place in the occupied West Bank against Palestinian farmers and their farmland. Check out this interactive map!
about 2 weeks ago
News & Analysis
An entire section of an Israeli prison holding Palestinian prisoners was transferred to a remote desert location in the Negev: Nafha prison. This desert prison is known for its extreme climate conditions—frigid cold in winters and extreme heat in summers.
about 2 weeks ago
News Roundup
Israeli troops shot 34-year-old Abdullah Abu Tehaimer as he tried to cross Israel's apartheid wall to go to work, to feed his family. He was shot without warning. He was shot the way East German soldiers shot anyone who tried to cross the Berlin Wall.
about 3 weeks ago
News & Analysis
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor announced she plans to conduct an investigation into Israeli war crimes committed in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. However, before the inquiry starts, the prosecutor will wait for the ICC to decide over its jurisdiction in West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
on December 20, 2019