Join MAP at the World Health Assembly: Health of Palestinian refugees
If you are attending the World Health Assembly in Geneva next week come along to hear Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) speak on a panel alongside the World Health Organization (WHO), the United...
View ArticleUK abstains on creation of UN Commission of Inquiry into violations of...
During a special session today, the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva adopted a resolution mandating the creation of an independent, international Commission of Inquiry to investigate all violations...
View ArticleGaza Emergency Appeal Update
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is very grateful to everyone who has supported our Gaza Emergency Appeal. Here we update on how your support is already helping people in Gaza. Donate to our Gaza...
View ArticleMPs interrogate government over decision to abstain on UN Gaza vote
On Friday, UN Human Rights Council members voted to establish an independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in...
View ArticleCollapse of healthcare for Palestinians in Lebanon inevitable without urgent...
Today Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) released a new report, warning that the health “system” for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is scarcely fit for purpose. After 70 years of displacement and...
View ArticleâWe came here after they kicked us out of our homelands during the Nakba...
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) strongly condemns yesterday’s ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court in favour of demolishing the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al Ahmar in the occupied West...
View ArticleMAP among organisations urging UK government to support UN Gaza inquiry
This week Medical Aid for Palestinian (MAP) joined UK-based humanitarian, development, human rights and faith organisations to call on the UK government to reverse its decision not to support the UN...
View ArticleMAP at the World Health Assembly: Health of Palestinian refugees
Last week Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) attended the World Health Assembly (WHA). The WHA is the annual meeting of the World Health Organisation and features scores of meetings and events on a...
View ArticleGaza Emergency Appeal Update
Thank you again to everyone who has supported our Gaza Emergency Appeal so far. We are very grateful for all donations received, as this will allow MAP to do even more to help people in Gaza. As...
View ArticleBritish MPs visit Khan al Ahmar, a community at risk of forcible transfer
Last week, a cross-party group of UK Members of Parliament visited Khan al Ahmar, a Bedouin community in the West Bank threatened with imminent demolition and forcible transfer by the Government of...
View ArticleâWhen a Palestinian medical student graduates she is told she canât...
Alia*, a Palestinian refugee studying to become a doctor at a Lebanese university, spoke to MAP about the barriers to becoming a doctor in Lebanon. Her story illustrates Medical Aid for Palestinians’...
View ArticleKilling of Gaza paramedic Razan al-Najjar underlines need for accountability
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is greatly saddened by the tragic killing of 21-year-old medical volunteer, Razan al-Najjar, in Gaza on Friday 1 June. Razan was fatally shot in the chest by Israeli...
View ArticleA Night for Gaza: Charity Iftar Dinner
MAP would like to thank the community of Walthamstow, in northern-east London, for their incredibly successful Iftar Charity Dinner last weekend. The event was pulled together in just 2 weeks and was...
View ArticleUK MPs witness West Bank life on MAP-Caabu delegation
Last month, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and Caabu once again took a cross-party group of MPs on a visit to the West Bank, to witness how Israel’s 51-year occupation impacts the lives and...
View ArticleAlarming mortality trend among young Palestinian refugees in Gaza
“Infant mortality is a barometer of the health of an entire population”. - Dr Akihiro Seita, Director of UNRWA’s Health Department A new study by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has...
View ArticleMAP CEO gives evidence to Parliamentâs International Development Committee
This week, Aimee Shalan, CEO of Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), gave evidence to the parliamentary International Development Committee on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The evidence session...
View ArticleKhan al Ahmar- Abu al Helou Community: A Mental Health Perspective
Razzan Quran, a trained counsellor and MAP’s Advocacy and Communications Officer in the West Bank, outlines psychological suffering in a Bedouin community under threat. There are 46 Palestinian...
View ArticlePlant Sale for Gaza
This June, one of our star supporters, Jenny Kassman held not one, but two fundraiser plant sales for us in Seven Sisters and Archway, London. Jenny grew most of the plants herself and managed to...
View ArticleParliament again debates Gazaâs humanitarian emergency and the UK...
On Tuesday, Parliament discussed the humanitarian situation in Gaza in a debate secured by Grahame Morris MP. Grahame Morris opened by condemning the Israeli forces’ violence against the “Great March...
View ArticleUN experts warn Gazaâs health care is at âbreaking pointâ
UN human rights experts have warned that Gaza’s heath sector is at “breaking point”. Last week the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), Professor Michael...
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