Event: Join MAP for an evening with UN and legal experts discussing the...
MAP invites you to an evening with Michael Lynk, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, in conversation with Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC. Accountability and Human...
View ArticleThe blockade tightens for Gaza's patients
For several years, the UN has warned that Gaza could be ‘unliveable’ by 2020. As people residing there mark ten years under Israel’s blockade and closure of Gaza in June, many would argue that this is...
View ArticleSt. Albans is taking Action
50 Days of Action A special Thank You to St. Albans Friends of Palestine who had an information and donation stall in St. Albans town centre last week, raising over £450. It is people like you, with...
View ArticleProtecting the lives of patients with kidney failure in Gaza
Last week the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza announced that 33% of essential medicines and 31% of medical disposables are at ‘zero stock’, meaning that less than a month’s supply is available on...
View ArticleUN highlights failures to protect healthcare
“Behind every number is a person who defines our common humanity and deserves our compassion, especially when suffering or premature death can be prevented." Margaret Chan, former Director General of...
View ArticleWorld Health Assembly calls for support for Palestinian health system
Last week, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) attended the 70th World Health Assembly at the UN in Geneva. This year, as with previous years, the Director-General of the World Health Organization...
View ArticleHaLOL comedy night in aid of MAP
Tickets are now on sale for HaLOL Entertainment’s comedy night in aid of Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). Join comedians Imran Yusuf and Jeremy Hardy, both of whom visited the West Bank with MAP...
View ArticleAnother patient in Gaza dies after being denied access to hospital
Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights this week reported on another sad death of a Palestinian patient denied permission to travel to East Jerusalem for medical treatment. According to Al Mezan, Tal’at...
View ArticlePress release: Urgent accountability needed to prevent another half-century...
Unless the international community takes urgent and decisive action to uphold international law, Palestinians will be forced to endure another 50 years of occupation, Medical Aid for Palestinians...
View ArticleA big Thank You to the Medical Students of the University of East Anglia.
A big Thank You to the Medical Students of the University of East Anglia. Read about their incredible fundraising achievements in support of MAP below. In October 2016 UEA Medsoc chose MAP as their...
View ArticleHow can a new UK government support Palestinian health and dignity?
The dust is yet to settle from the UK’s general election, and it is too soon to know whether there will be a shift in the government's policies with regard to the Middle East, the peace process, or...
View ArticleA decade of blockade and closure: Gazaâs patients at risk
Next Wednesday Palestinians in Gaza mark 10 years under Israel’s suffocating blockade and closure. Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is extremely concerned about the continued negative impact it is...
View ArticleRide 4 Medical Aid
My support of MAP started in 2015 after visiting Shatila refugee camp in Beirut. Seeing the overpopulated ghetto, talking with young Palestinians who only know life as refugees with no legal rights,...
View ArticleOn 10-year anniversary of the Gaza blockade, MAP urges action to prevent...
On the 10-year anniversary of Israel’s tightening of its blockade and closure on Gaza, Medical Aid for Palestinians has today warned that the humanitarian situation for 2 million people is further...
View ArticleEvent highlights: Accountability and human rights at 50 years of occupation
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View ArticleMAP at the Ramadan Tent Project in London
Under the banner of our 50 Days of Action campaign, MAP has been involved with the Open Iftar Project at Malet Street Gardens, London. The initiative started in 2013 with the aim to provide people...
View ArticleWorld Refugee Day 2017: Marking the worldâs oldest refugee crisis
"I’ve met so many who have lost so much. But they never lose their dreams for their children or their desire to better our world. They ask for little in return – only our support in their time of...
View ArticleQ&A with UN Special Rapporteur Prof Michael Lynk
MAP Q & A with Professor Michael Lynk, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory Following Prof Michael Lynk’s successful public talk in London last week...
View ArticleDouglas Gillgallon on top of Ben Nevis
A massive thank and congratulations for Douglas Gillgallon for climbing Ben Nevis, the highest mountain peak in the UK, in support of MAP. The response and recognition from thousands of people across...
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