Palestinian emergency department workers at high risk of burnout
Palestinian medical staff working in emergency departments are suffering from high levels of burnout, according to researchers at Al Quds University in Palestine. The work of doctors and nurses in...
View ArticleMAP at the UN: How states can support the Palestinian right to health
Next week, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) will be in Geneva for the 37th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council as the Council discusses the human rights situation in the occupied...
View ArticleMAP delivers statement at the UN on right to health of Palestinians
This week Medical Aid for Palestinians' (MAP)'s Director of Advocacy and Campaigns, Neil Sammonds, delivered a statement on the right to health of Palestinians at the UN Human Rights Council in...
View ArticleUN human rights expert finds Israel âin profound breachâ of...
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, Professor Michael Lynk, has found Israel to be “in profound breach of the right to health...
View ArticleGaza update: âdoctors used flashlights to examine patientsâ
In Gaza the health system continues to deteriorate, with hospitals struggling to cope and dangerously low medicine stocks. The UN has warned that Gaza is on the “verge of disaster”. In February, 42%...
View ArticleUK opposes key accountability resolution at UN Human Rights Council
This week, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)’s Advocacy and Campaigns Team were in Geneva while the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) discussed the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian...
View ArticleâLife-changingâ - 20 years of supporting parents with children with...
In Lebanon, Palestinian refugees with disabilities face considerable challenges to their day-to-day life, including a lack of adequate services, ill-adapted public spaces, and exclusion from education...
View ArticleIn Memory of Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti
Medical Aid for Palestinians was saddened to hear of the loss of Sheikh Tosun Bayrak, of the Jerrahi Order of America, in February 2018. An author and Sufi who translated many important and classic...
View ArticleMAP dismayed by loss of life, responding to high number of casualties in Gaza
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is deeply dismayed by the terrible loss of life and large number of injuries in Gaza due to the use of live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas by Israeli forces...
View ArticleAfter deadliest day in Gaza since 2014, MAP calls for accountability for...
PRESS RELEASE Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) condemns the killing and injuring of unarmed civilians in Gaza and supports growing international calls for independent investigation and...
View ArticleDemand accountability for violence against Gaza protesters
Please email your MP today, and ask them to urge the UK government to take action and support international calls for independent investigations into the killing and injuring of Palestinian...
View ArticleNew MAP film from Gaza: Peaceful protest, pain and impunity
Watch MAP's short film, "Peaceful Protest, Pain and Impunity", which goes inside Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital as medical teams responded to Israeli forces' violent response to the Great March of Return...
View ArticleHow MAP is helping fix the shattered bones of Palestinian protesters in Gaza
Donate now to help support MAP’s emergency response Last Friday was the bloodiest day in Gaza since Israel’s 2014 offensive. Thousands of Palestinians peacefully gathered close to the border with...
View ArticleGaza update: 10 Palestinians killed and hundreds injured, MAPâs team...
Update from Gaza, Saturday 7 April: The Ministry of Health in Gaza has now updated its casualty figures for Friday, and reports that 10 people were killed and 1,356 injured. Medical Aid for...
View ArticleMAP joins 70+ organisations condemning Israel's unlawful killing of civilians...
Statement from the Association of International Development Agencies, 7 April 2018: AIDA, a network consisting of more than 70 INGOs operating in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), condemns the...
View ArticleListen to MAPâs Health Under Occupation event with UN Special Rapporteur
Last month Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and Amnesty International UK were honoured to host the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), Prof Michael...
View ArticleResponding to mass casualties in Gaza thanks to your support
On 6 April, thousands of Palestinians gathered close to the border with Israel for the second Friday of the ‘Great March of Return’ - a series of mass peaceful protests leading up to the 70th...
View ArticleMass casualties putting health workers in Gaza under even greater strain
On the third consecutive Friday of the “Great Return March” protests, health workers have been injured and will have been put under considerable strain. Today, a Palestine Red Crescent Society medic...
View ArticleThe Return Camps: A Peaceful Transformation of a Deadly Zone
Hala Safadi, a journalist in Gaza, reports on the protest camps established at the edge of the Israeli-imposed “No-Go Zone” close to the security fence. Since the protests began on 30 March, 28...
View ArticleNew MAP film from Gaza: health workers under attack
Last Friday, one Palestinian protester was killed and more than 900 injured, many of them severely, after the use of live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas by Israeli forces targeting protesters...
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