Israelâs occupation in numbers
This week, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs released its annual report on humanitarian vulnerabilities facing residents of the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza....
View ArticleRemembering Jo Cox MP
The team at MAP were saddened to hear about the tragic death of Jo Cox MP. She frequently spoke out in Parliament on issues in Palestine. Below is her intervention on Gaza made last year. Jo Cox...
View Article#MoreInCommon: In memory of Jo Cox
Last week, MAP joined the UK in mourning the death of Jo Cox MP. As well as being a principled social justice campaigner inside and outside of Parliament, Jo was a vocal advocate of the Palestinian...
View ArticleRefugee Week: Are Palestinian refugees welcome in the UK?
This week people across the world are holding events, taking action and speaking out in support of refugees, wherever they are. At MAP we have been working with Palestinian refugees since the early...
View ArticleDisplaced, occupied, and displaced again: Bedouin refugees in the West Bank
For the Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley that are regularly visited by MAP’s mobile clinic, displacement and dispossession have been part of life for more than sixty years. Nearly all of these...
View ArticleHow social factors determine health in Gaza
(WHO) A new film depicts the broader determinants of health in the Gaza Strip that are barriers to the population reaching their full health potential. The ongoing occupation and conflict has severely...
View ArticleEid Mubarak from MAP!
Eid Mubarak from all of MAP’s staff in Lebanon, the West Bank, Gaza and the UK. We would like to wish all of our supporters who are celebrating a blessed and peaceful Eid, and express our sincerest...
View ArticleGaza Blockade Preventing Vital Reconstruction: International Agencies Sound...
#OpenGaza: Sign the petition Press release from the Association of International Development Agencies Two years since the outbreak of the 2014 war that cost the lives of 1,492 Palestinian civilians,...
View ArticleTwo years on âOperation Protective Edgeâ is still claiming lives in Gaza
Palestinians are still dying as a result of Israel’s 2014 attacks on Gaza, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) warned on the two-year anniversary of the conflict. During the hostilities, over 2,000...
View ArticleWitness: Displaced by War in Syria
The latest edition of our biannual supporter magazine, Witness, is here! In this issue you can read about our work providing training to Palestinian medical staff behind Gaza's blockade, the...
View ArticleTwo years on, still no accountability for attacks on Gazaâs health sector
On the two year anniversary of Israel’s 2014 attacks on Gaza, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR) & Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) have...
View ArticleâWe need to restore hopeâ: A Gaza doctor addresses British MPs
Yesterday, MPs, peers and charities joined together at an event in the Palace of Westminster to mark the second anniversary of the 2014 attacks on Gaza. Among those speaking at the event were MAP CEO...
View ArticleHow Gazaâs medics are using technology to battle the blockade
In the face of nine years of conflict and blockade, doctors in Gaza continue to show incredible determination to provide quality healthcare to the 1.8 million people they serve. But closed off from...
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: Gaza's humanitarian crisis
Two years on from the 2014 attacks on Gaza, the situation remains bleak for the territory's 1.8 million residents. As our latest infographic shows, the nine-year blockade and closure of Gaza has...
View ArticleAnother attack on Duma
Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process "I am concerned by reports of yet another arson attack on the home of the Dawabsha family last night in Duma in...
View ArticleLord Norman Warner highlights conditions for Palestinian children
Earlier this year, Lord Norman Warner visited the occupied West Bank on a delegation organised by Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu). This week,...
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: Medical care in Gaza, two years on from the 2014 attacks
The 2014 attacks on Gaza killed more than 2,000 Palestinians and injured 11,000, leaving approximately 900 with permanent disabilities. As our latest infographic shows, those needing to access care...
View ArticleThree ways the UK can protect Palestinian refugees from Syria
Following on from the launch of our petition in March and coming in the week of the 65th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention, MAP are today launching an initiative with Lawyers for Palestinian...
View ArticleMy Gaza hospital was destroyed. Why has the world stayed silent?
(Published in the National) Two years ago, my hospital was destroyed. It was the only dedicated rehabilitation hospital in Gaza, a modern centre of care with 80 beds, a therapeutic garden and...
View ArticleUN express concern as to Hebron closures
(UNRWA) UNRWA is deeply concerned about the humanitarian impact of the closure applied by the Israeli authorities in the Hebron district, affecting in particular Fawwar refugee camp. The closure was...
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