Upcoming event: Collective punishment in Gaza, 13 years of illegal closure...
Medical aid for Palestinians (MAP) invites you to a panel discussion, Collective punishment in Gaza, 13 years of illegal closure with impunity, that we are speaking at on Wednesday 15 July. Watch the...
View ArticleNew briefing and event: COVID-19 and the Systematic Neglect of East Jerusalem
A new briefing by Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), Al-Haq and the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Centre (JLAC), exposes how systematic neglect and de-development of Palestinian healthcare has...
View ArticleHayatâs story: Using paint to raise community awareness of COVID-19
In Lebanon, overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in Palestinian refugee camps, after 72 years of displacement and neglect, provide the dangerous conditions for COVID-19 (coronavirus) to spread, while...
View ArticleâWe donât want our rights to be violatedâ: How COVID-19 is making life...
People with disabilities are among those groups disproportionately affected by COVID-19 due, as the UN has highlighted, to “attitudinal, environmental and institutional barriers that are reproduced in...
View ArticleNew Mobile Clinic in Hebron helps tackle COVID-19 surge
The epicentre of the West Bank’s ongoing spike in COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases is the Hebron governorate, accounting for 82% of all confirmed active cases. The World Health Organization has confirmed...
View ArticleMAP joins call for end of collective punishment of Gaza
This month, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory Prof. Michael Lynk released his latest report to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva. Prof. Lynk...
View ArticleWatch: Virtual briefing on COVID-19 & the systematic neglect of East Jerusalem
Last month, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) launched a briefing paper with Al Haq and the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), COVID-19 and the systematic neglect of Palestinians in...
View ArticleNew ways of working under COVID-19 to support Palestinian children with...
by Wafa Dakwar, Medical Aid for Palestinians’ (MAP’s) Senior Programme Officer in Lebanon During emergencies the rights and needs of people with disabilities are often neglected. The UN has warned...
View ArticleUtter devastation in Beirut: MAPâs emergency response
Photo credit: dpa picture alliance / Alamy Stock Photo Beirut is a scene of utter devastation today in the aftermath of a massive explosion at Karantina sea port that sent shock waves across Lebanon’s...
View ArticleBurns prevention awareness-raising in Palestine
Displacement, cramped living conditions and an over- reliance on open flames can often result in horrific burns injuries. Since 2009, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has been supporting specialised...
View ArticleUpdate: MAPâs emergency response to the Beirut explosion
The permanent team of Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) in Lebanon has been responding with local partners to the massive explosion on 4 August which devastated much of Beirut. More than 220 people...
View ArticleMeet MAPâs #RealLifeHeroes this World Humanitarian Day
To mark World Humanitarian Day today, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is celebrating the #RealLifeHeroes who enable our work in support of Palestinians’ rights to health and dignity. Mohammed...
View ArticleMAP declares healthcare emergency across Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon
Gaza’s first community COVID-19 cases are only the latest crisis in a pan-regional humanitarian emergency affecting Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory and Lebanon With the discovery...
View ArticleMAP briefs the UN on barriers to disability rights in the occupied...
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has submitted evidence to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities outlining barriers to disability rights in the occupied Palestinian territory...
View ArticleHow MAPâs partner the Dunya Centre is safely providing essential cancer...
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare extend well beyond those services and institutions directly responding to the disease and seeking to halt its spread. Medical Aid for Palestinians...
View ArticleFirst international âSocial Circusâ conference in Palestine to help...
On Thursday 3 September 2020 at 2:00 pm till 3:00 pm (Palestine time), the Palestinian Circus School, in cooperation with Medical Aid or Palestinians (MAP), will host a first-of-its-kind virtual...
View ArticleBritish organisations deliver respirators to Palestine to support COVID-19...
The International Medical Education Trust 2000 (IMET2000) and Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), supported by the British Consulate General, today delivered 15 Continuous Positive Airway Pressure...
View ArticleCare, advice and a listening ear: How MAPâs community midwives have helped...
Medical Aid for Palestinians’ (MAP’s) Senior Programme Officer, Wafa Dakwar, joined community midwife Sonia on her visits in Beddawi refugee camp in North Lebanon. Here she describes how these visits...
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