IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
News & Analysis
Palestinian workers in Israel are being forced to choose between going home to their families in the occupied West Bank or keeping their work permits, jobs, and income.
about 1 week ago
News & Analysis
Jewish settlers live on stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank. They routinely destroy farmland, olive groves, and even attack Palestinian homes and schools. You'd think they would stop during the spread of the corona pandemic. But, no, they haven't.
about 1 week ago
News & Analysis
Today is Land Day, but the usual marches planned across Palestine are on hold because of the Covid-19 pandemic. But, being on lockdown is nothing new for Palestinians. "Indeed, Palestinians in the West Bank are confined to what amounts to bantustans..."
about 1 week ago
News & Analysis
Palestinians are trying to stay safe from the coronavirus, but they're not safe from Israeli settler violence. Israeli settlers stormed a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank and injured several residents, resulting in the skull fracture of a middle aged man.
about 2 weeks ago
News & Analysis
The intensity of Palestinian suffering in Gaza will not be due to natural causes, but because the Israeli military siege has put the people of Gaza at an immense disadvantage in all three categories that are considered vital for combating the virus’s dissemination: health services, social determinants of health, and physical distancing.
about 2 weeks ago
News & Analysis
Amjad Zaghir turned his shoe factory in occupied Hebron into a mask factory soon after Covid-19 began to spread in the region. Now, he's the only mask manufacturer in the occupied West Bank.
about 2 weeks ago
News & Analysis
A Palestinian worker in Israel expressed he may have symptoms of coronavirus. Israel tested him, then without giving him his results, picked him up and left him on the other side of a checkpoint leading to the occupied West Bank.
about 2 weeks ago
News & Analysis
"The threat of COVID-19 looming over Gaza is perhaps a last opportunity to say what many refuse to hear: Gaza’s problem is not a lack of humanitarian aid, as urgent as it may be. It is territorial, demographic, and political."
about 2 weeks ago
Op-Eds & Analysis
Dispatches from occupied Bethlehem, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in Palestine. "Videos of smiling patients waving their hands as they left the hotel were circulated around social media...restoring a sense of hope in the city."
about 2 weeks ago