IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
Fact Sheets
The IMEU offers the following update on Gaza and Operation Protective Edge.
7 hours ago
Media Roundup
As Israel’s continued air offensive against Gaza saw the Palestinian death toll rise above 200 on Wednesday, a leading human rights organisation has warned a fifth of those who have died in the nine-day conflict are children. Save the Children has become the latest body to voice its concern over the Palestinian death toll, which rose to 211 on Wednesday afternoon when an Israeli airstrike killed four boys from the Bakr family on a coastal road near a beach in the Gaza Strip. A further seven adults and children were wounded. Last week, five children from the same family died in a pre-dawn bombardment.
20 hours ago
Media Roundup
Al Deira Hotel is regularly used by Western journalists when they travel to the Gaza Strip. Correspondents say that they are attracted by its good food, consistent wi-fi connections, and, most importantly, the fact that it is open (many other hotels in Gaza have closed in recent years). One more selling point, however, is its location. The hotel has a terrace that allows views of the beach and the Mediterranean Sea. Wednesday afternoon, unfortunately, it offered something different: A chance to witness the death of four children.
20 hours ago
Media Roundup
Repeated bombardments are destroying the vulnerable water system in Gaza, and the deaths of a number of local water authority technicians stresses the danger they face as they perform essential maintenance work, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
21 hours ago
Photo Essays
Volunteers worked to extinguish fires left behind by Israeli warplanes that shelled the Hashem family home, one of at least seven Palestinian houses bombarded today in Gaza City.
21 hours ago
Media Roundup
Israel has agreed to a United Nations request for a temporary cease-fire in its shelling campaign of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports. The five-hour bombing halt on Thursday will allow humanitarian aid to be delivered in Gaza. But any semblance of peace will be fleeting.
21 hours ago
Media Roundup
Seven people were killed in three strikes in Gaza on Wednesday evening, raising the toll in nine days of violence to 220, emergency services said. The deaths followed those of four children killed on the beach in Gaza City, in strikes witnessed by AFP journalists.
about 1 day ago
Media Roundup
Four children were killed and three wounded Wednesday by an Israeli airstrike on a port in Gaza that was witnessed by an NBC News team in the area. The victims, aged between 9 and 11, died after being taken to hospital. They were carried from the scene of the attack through the lobby of a hotel, in front of Western journalists.
about 1 day ago
Op-Eds & Analysis
The “special relationship” between Israel and the United States is supposedly that of mutual respect for the rule of law and democracy. American faith in Israeli democracy, however, was shaken recently when a 15-year-old child from Tampa, Florida, while spending his summer vacation with family in Jerusalem, was brutally beaten and arrested by masked Israeli police officers.
about 2 days ago