Advancing the rights of Palestinian children with disabilities in Lebanon
Wafa Dakwar, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)’s Senior Programme Officer in Lebanon, recently visited Al-Buss refugee camp in Tyre, southern Lebanon, to visit the Sour Community Disability Project...
View ArticleMAP launches poster campaign to honour healthcare heroes in Palestine
On World Humanitarian Day, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has begun a poster campaign to honour the Palestinian healthcare heroes who are going to extraordinary lengths to help people across the...
View ArticleLebanon crisis: Stories from a Palestinian refugee camp
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon’s Bourj el-Barajneh camp are feeling the crippling effects of the country’s economic crisis and struggling to make a living. Food prices and unemployment rates have...
View ArticleGaza faces COVID-19 surge amid violence and worsening blockade
Fears are growing that Gaza is experiencing a third wave of COVID-19, as the highly infectious Delta variant of the virus continues to spread throughout the densely-populated area. This threatens to...
View Article“The mobile clinic is the only healthcare service in our community”
“Life is so hard in this community. We face daily aggression from the settlers, who live a few kilometres away,” said Saeda, a mother of 10 children, when asked about her life in Trefaat, a Bedouin...
View ArticleMAP's Book club in September
Join MAP for a literary event in aid of Medical Aid for Palestinians. Yann Martel will interview Palestinian author Susan Abulhawa on her latest book 'Against the loveless world.' Together with MAP's...
View ArticleThe 11th conference of the Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance
Professor Graham Watt, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) Trustee and Chair of the Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance (LPHA) steering group reflects on the 11th LPHA conference and highlights the main...
View ArticleSummer camps supporting Gaza children traumatised by violence and blockade
Life under 14 years of blockade and repeated military assault has taken a severe toll on the mental health of young people in Gaza. Even before the devastating bombardment in May 2021, 95 per cent of...
View ArticleStories from Shatila camp, 39 years on from a tragedy
Thirty-nine years ago this week, Lebanese militias entered the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila, and over three days killed and injured hundreds of unarmed Palestinian and other...
View Article“My younger brother and I were the only survivors in the family”
This story is part of a series of interviews with Palestinian refugees on the 39th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre. See the series here. Content warning: This interview contains...
View Article“On that day, I believe we survived only because God did not want us to die”
This story is part of a series of interviews with Palestinian refugees on the 39th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre. See the series here. Content warning: This interview contains...
View ArticleMedical Aid for Palestinians at 2021 Annual Labour Conference
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed deepening health inequalities between Palestinians and Israelis. Despite living under Israel’s perpetual occupation, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have been...
View Article“Life has to go on, but we can never forget the massacre”
This story is part of a series of interviews with Palestinian refugees on the 39th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre. See the series here. Content warning: This interview contains...
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"فقط أنا وأخي الصغير نجونا من بين أسرتنا" "أعتقد أننا نجونا في ذلك اليوم فقط لأن الله لم يشأ لنا الموت" "يجب أن تستمر الحياة ولكن لا يمكننا نسيان المجزرة أبداً"
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