Horrific injuries reported among Gaza protesters
As the Great March of Return protests continues on its fourth Friday, medical workers in Gaza are reporting horrific, life-changing injuries to Palestinian demonstrators caused by Israeli forces....
View ArticleOnce-bustling Yarmouk now a ghost-town and its surviving hospital is no more
On 22 April the only remaining hospital in Yarmouk, south Damascus, was put out of service after being reportedly destroyed in an air raid. Palestine Hospital had struggled on since the Syrian...
View ArticleBedouin school under imminent threat of demolition
Yesterday, 25 April, Israel's High Court postponed by a week a decision on whether the primary school in the Bedouin community of Khan al Ahmar will be demolished. The school serves 178 students from...
View ArticleMAP raises concerns over mental health impact of violence against Gaza...
A high number of casualties were once again reported on the fifth Friday of the Great March of Return protest in Gaza. According to the Ministry of Health, three people were killed by Israeli security...
View ArticleFILM: MAPâs vital work treating gunshot wounds in Gaza
Since the beginning of the Great March of Return demonstrations in Gaza on 30 March, 36 protesters and two journalists have been killed by Israeli forces using live ammunition. Thousands of...
View ArticleNew MAP magazine: 70 years of displacement
MAP CEO Aimee Shalan introduces our latest Witness magazine, Seventy Years of Displacement: Once again, I am writing at a critical time for Palestine and Palestinians. In Gaza, thousands of...
View ArticleIn Palestine, training to be a doctor is impeded by the occupation
“Attacks on medical education add new scars on the face of Palestine’s medical education.” A new report by the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA), a network of 1.3...
View ArticleCalls for accountability grow as Israelâs use of force against Gaza...
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is deeply dismayed by the continuing injuries in Gaza due to the use of live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas by Israeli forces targeting Palestinian...
View ArticleNakba 70: Dr Ali Dakwar, MAP's Director of Programes in Lebanon
Tuesday 15 May marks 70 years since the Nakba ('Catastrophe'), where at least 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from or fled their homes in historic Palestine during violent events related to the...
View ArticleImproving breast cancer care in Palestine: MAPâs latest medical delegation
This week, MAP is supporting the visit of a multidisciplinary team of breast cancer specialists from the UK to the West Bank as part of our continuing work to improve breast cancer care for...
View ArticleDisplaced and occupied: Bedouin refugees in the West Bank
For the Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley, a region in Area C of the West Bank where Israel maintains full civil and military control, displacement and dispossession have been part of life for...
View ArticleGaza update: One Palestinian killed and hundreds injured, MAPâs team...
Hundreds of casualties were once again reported on the seventh Friday of the Great March of Return protests in Gaza. According to the Ministry of Health, one person was killed by Israeli security...
View ArticleNakba 70: Amal Zaqout, MAP's Community Programme Officer in Gaza
Tuesday 15 May marks 70 years since the Nakba ('Catastrophe'), where at least 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from or fled their homes in historic Palestine during violent events related to the...
View ArticleSeventy years of ongoing Nakba
Today on the 70th anniversary of the Nakba ('catastrophe') MAP CEO Aimee Shalan writes from Gaza: On 15 May we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when three quarters of a million...
View ArticleDeadliest day in Gaza since 2014: at least 58 Palestinians killed and 2,771...
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is greatly saddened by the high loss of life and further mass casualties in Gaza yesterday. Yesterday was the deadliest day in Gaza since 2014. According to the...
View ArticleDisplacement and disability
Seventy years have now passed since the Nakba, or ‘Catastrophe’, when over 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from or fled their homes due to the actions of armed groups during the creation of the...
View ArticleMAP joins 90+ organisations to call for Commission of Inquiry into violence...
Joint letter on behalf of a cross-regional group of 95 national, regional, and international organisations calling on the UN Human Rights Council to urgently launch an independent investigation into...
View ArticleDeadliest day in Gaza since 2014: devastating injuries and medics under attack
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is greatly saddened by the high loss of life and further mass casualties in Gaza this week and outraged that the safety of medical workers in Gaza was once again...
View ArticleMPs call for independent inquiry into Gaza killings, support for struggling...
On Tuesday, Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry MP, who visited the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) with MAP last year, tabled an urgent question on the issue of violence against protesters...
View ArticleMessage of thanks from MAP's Director of Programmes in Gaza
Medical Aid for Palestinians' (MAP) Director of Programmes in Gaza, Fikr Shalltoot, has a message of thanks to everyone who has donated to our Gaza Emergency Appeal so far and explains how MAP plans...
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