Projects update: Bringing physiotherapy training to Gaza
Ten years of blockade and closure, and repeated military offensives, have put Gaza’s health sector under huge strain. In recent months, hospital services have been drastically cut back because of...
View ArticleSix ways Gazaâs electricity crisis impacts the lives of Palestinians with...
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has previously reported how humanitarian conditions in Gaza have drastically deteriorated since the closure of Gaza’s power plant in April, and the reduction in the...
View ArticleUK Government responds to our breast cancer campaign
In October 2016, for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) launched a campaign calling on the UK Government to do more to protect Palestinian women affected by breast...
View ArticleMAP at Right to Health conference, Ramallah, 1-2 August 2017
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) was pleased to be invited to participate in a conference in Ramallah last week on the right to health. Our Advocacy and Campaigns Director, Neil Sammonds, travelled...
View ArticleMAP at Medactâs Health Through Peace Conference 2017
Feryal Awan, Research and Advocacy Manager, Medact A severe electricity shortage in Gaza has left residents with little as two hours of power a day. Fuel reserves are at risk of running out for public...
View ArticleEmergency action: call on the UK government to save lives in Gaza
Amid its deepening humanitarian crisis, Gaza is experiencing daily blackouts of 18-20 hours, with many homes receiving just two hours of mains electricity per day. Hospitals in Gaza are struggling to...
View ArticleSupporting the development of Gazaâs physios through training in the UK
Israel’s 2014 military offensive on Gaza killed 2,217 Palestinians and left approximately 11,000 injured. Many limb injuries required complicated surgical intervention. To support these patients,...
View ArticleThe Lancet: âResearch in the occupied Palestinian territory Special Issue...
In June, Palestinians marked 50 years of living under the world’s longest ongoing military occupation. High-quality research is an essential tool for documenting the ways in which the social and...
View ArticleChild dies from water pollution in Gaza amid worsening medical referral...
This week the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights has reported on the sad death of five-year-old Mohammed Ahmed Salim al-Sayes. Mohammed had been swimming in the sea in the Sheikh Ajlin area of Gaza city...
View ArticleGaza experiencing âhumanitarian emergencyâ warn MAP
Press release: 24 August 2017 The situation in Gaza has reached its lowest ebb outside of periods of military attack and should now be considered a humanitarian emergency, Medical Aid for...
View ArticleSix Palestinians killed and over 40 injured in Ein el Helweh clashes
Recent armed violence in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el Helweh in the city of Saida, South Lebanon, has once again resulted in deaths, insecurity, and affected the provision of healthcare...
View ArticleTwo more patients die in Gaza after being denied travel for treatment
Two more Palestinian patients have died after being denied permits by Israeli authorities to exit Gaza for medical treatment. Both women were diagnosed with cancer and denied access to vital treatment...
View ArticleHebronâs new Burns Unit officially opens
Last week a team from Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) were delighted to participate in the official opening of the new MAP-supported burns treatment unit at Alia Hospital in Hebron. The new Burns...
View Article"Each time I go to Gaza, things are worse than before"
Photo: The Erez Crossing in 1964 MAP trustee Andrew Karney writes on his recent visit to Gaza: I worked as a teacher for UNRWA in the newly established Vocational Training Centre in Gaza in the early...
View ArticleWitnessing a life of checkpoints and barriers
By Melanie Coyne, Programme Manager at Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) I recently returned from a week in the West Bank, where I was fortunate enough to visit MAP’s projects and meet our...
View ArticleUK parliamentarians meet Palestinians living under occupation
Last week, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) supported a delegation of UK parliamentarians to the West Bank, with our partner Caabu. Alistair Carmichael MP (LD), Baroness Tessa Blackstone (L) and...
View ArticleMAP at Medactâs Health Through Peace Conference 2017
On 4-6 September, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) participated in the Health Through Peace Conference in York. The conference, held biannually by Medact, provides a platform for health...
View ArticleIn numbers: Gazaâs healthcare emergency
Last month, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) announced that Gaza should be considered a ‘humanitarian emergency’. The deterioration of healthcare, and the inability of many patients to get out for...
View ArticleRemembering Lady Patience Moberly
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has just received the very sad news that Lady Dr Patience Moberly has died. She is going to be missed by so many people. For us at MAP, she will never be forgotten....
View ArticlePalestinian voices from Lebanon
This week, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) marked, with deep sadness, the 35th anniversary of the massacre in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon. Between 16 and 18...
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