Experts warn of Gazaâs imminent health system collapse as COVID-19...
Photo credit: Shutterstock/ Abed Rahim Khatib Health experts in Gaza have warned that the local health care system is days away from being overwhelmed, as COVID-19 (coronavirus) continues to rapidly...
View ArticleTreating gunshot injuries in Gaza amid the pandemic
A Report from Mohammed Aghaalkurdi, MAP’s Limb Reconstruction Project Assistant in Gaza: In 2012, the UN predicted that by 2020, Gaza would be unliveable. While we are still alive, we are barely...
View ArticleTribute to Tomo Brody
The MAP team are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Tomo Brody - a young documentary filmmaker who made many films for MAP in the past. Tomo visited Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon with MAP...
View ArticleNew MAP animation: Breast cancer care in Gaza
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, watch Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) short animation highlighting the many challenges faced by women in Gaza affected by breast cancer. Error module embedded...
View ArticleMAP brings essential COVID-19 training to health workers battling the...
The occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and Lebanon are currently experiencing a worrying surge in Coronavirus infections that is stretching capacity and resources of local health systems close to...
View ArticleLeading by example: Advancing disability rights in Gaza
By Haitham Al Saqqa, Medical Aid for Palestinians’ (MAP’s) Community Programme Assistant in Gaza The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the marginalisation of people with disabilities in Gaza. Sadly, the...
View ArticleMAPâs breast cancer volunteers finalists in this yearâs Scottish Health...
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) would like to congratulate our Scottish-based breast cancer medical volunteers for being finalists in this year’s Scottish Health Awards, in recognition of their...
View ArticleCOVID-19 emergency update: MAP calls on UK to help Gaza breathe as oxygen...
[Updated with latest COVID-19 data on 18/12/20] The current spike in COVID-19 cases is stretching the capacity of Gaza’s beleaguered health system to breaking point. Over the past three weeks, cases...
View ArticleA Christmas message from Aimee Shalan, MAPâs Chief Executive
Dear Friends, Where to begin as I sit down to write this year’s Christmas message. While we are all far too familiar with the injustices facing Palestinians living under military occupation and forced...
View ArticleA New Yearâs message from MAP President, Baroness Morris of Bolton
It has been an incredibly tough year for the Palestinian people. Families across the West Bank, Gaza and the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon were enduring multiple and overlapping humanitarian...
View ArticleMAP joins international call on Israel to ensure vaccine access for Palestinians
Photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib, Shutterstock Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has today joined a coalition of 21 Israeli, Palestinian and international health and human rights organisations to urge...
View ArticleAs harsh weather hits, MAP distributes essential winter supplies in Lebanon
By Wafa Dakwar, Medical Aid for Palestinians' (MAP’s) Senior Programme Officer in Lebanon In a small house down a hill in the Bekaa Valley live four sisters, the eldest of whom is Ahlam*. Where the...
View ArticleThree years on: the successes of MAPâs cross-Palestine breast cancer...
Last month the dedication and hard work of our breast cancer medical volunteers was recognised when they were nominated finalists in the Scottish Health Awards. Now their work in collaboration with...
View Article#IsolatedButTogether: Global message of solidarity with Palestine health...
Across the world, health workers have spent nearly a year risking their health on the frontline against the coronavirus pandemic. Once again those of us in the UK find ourselves amid a national...
View ArticleThree Palestinian hospitals attacked in less than a month amid global pandemic
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is greatly alarmed by reports that the lives and wellbeing of Palestinian patients and health workers have once again been put in danger as three Palestinian...
View ArticleâThe midwifeâs support made all the differenceâ
By Wafa Dakwar, Medical Aid for Palestinians' (MAP’s) Senior Programme Officer in Lebanon Samira* is a Palestinian mother from Beddawi camp in North Lebanon. She has a five-year-old daughter, Rama*,...
View ArticleEqual access to COVID-19 vaccines: Who is responsible in the occupied...
Photo credit: Shutterstock Today Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has released a position paper calling for rapid, comprehensive and equitable access to vaccines in the occupied Palestinian...
View ArticleCommunity Fundraising is the Bee's Knees
Despite the COVID-19 restrictions, Rob Jones, Director of Garden Design Centre in Reading, wanted to do his bit for for Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees. At the end of 2020, Rob...
View ArticleHelping Palestinian families through Lebanonâs harsh winter
By Wafa Dakwar, Medical Aid for Palestinians' (MAP’s) Senior Programme Officer in Lebanon Ahmad* is a 79-year-old retired schoolteacher and a father of seven children, including a son with a...
View ArticleMAP joins 80+ organistions calling for the immediate halt of demolitions and...
Photo credit: B'Tselem Statement from the Association of International Development Agencies: The Association of International Development Agencies in Palestine (AIDA), representing over 80 INGOs...
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