How MAP is protecting Palestinian lives amid deepening crises in the West...
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is continuing to respond to a dangerous escalation of Israeli military and settler violence that has seen 2023 become the deadliest year for Palestinians in the...
View Articleالمحافظة على حياة الفلسطينيين في الضفة الغربية وغزة في ظل تصاعد الانتهاكات...
تواصل جمعية العون الطبي للفلسطينيين (ماب) استجابتها لتداعيات تصاعد عنف المستوطنين والجيش الإسرائيلي، والذي جعل من العام الجاري الأكثر دموية بالنسبة للفلسطينيين في الضفة الغربية منذ الانتفاضة الثانية....
View ArticleMAP at 2023 Labour Party conference
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) will join Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME) at the Annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool, to discuss what a Labour government should mean...
View ArticleMAP launches Gaza emergency response amid rapidly escalating violence
On Saturday 7 October, Hamas and Palestinian armed groups fired hundreds of rockets into Israel, and militants crossed the perimeter fence to launch attacks in cities and towns surrounding Gaza. In...
View ArticleCook for Palestine
We spoke to MasterChef contestant, Raheel Mirza about his Cook for Palestine online classes, fundraising for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). How long have you been engaged in the Palestinian...
View ArticleTwo critically ill children among hundreds of patients trapped inside Shifa...
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) calls for the urgent protection of hundreds of healthcare workers, patients, and displaced civilians trapped inside the Shifa Hospital in Gaza, following the Israeli...
View Article“The situation is unimaginable”: MAP, IRC and PCRF doctors report...
As Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza approaches six months, an Emergency Medical Team (EMT) with Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and the...
View ArticleThe destruction of Shifa Hospital is latest evidence of Israel’s systematic...
After a two-week-long invasion and siege, the Israeli military withdrew from Gaza’s largest hospital, Shifa Hospital, on 1 April, leaving it in ruins and completely out of service. The hospital’s main...
View Article‘There are no more words’ – Six months of Israel’s total siege and...
This weekend marked six months since the start of Israel’s military assault on Gaza. For 184 days, the international community has sat back and watched as Israel indiscriminately bombarded civilians,...
View ArticleGaza six months on: How your support for MAP has made a difference to...
Six months on since Israel began its military bombardment and complete closure of Gaza, 1.1 million people – half the population – are experiencing catastrophic food insecurity, famine is setting in,...
View Article“I thought I would return to my home in two hours…but I haven’t returned for...
The Israeli military’s indiscriminate bombardment and total siege of Gaza has now been ongoing for 200 days. Almost the entire population of around 2.3 million people has been displaced, and the...
View Article“I didn’t have a fancy life, but I had a good life. Now there is no life”
The second blog in our ‘Voices from Gaza’ series comes from Amal Zaqout, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)’s Community Programme Officer, who is currently sheltering in Rafah. Amal is a single mum of...
View ArticleMAP CEO selected for TIME’s top 100 most influential people in global health
We at Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) are proud to announce that our CEO, Melanie Ward, has been selected for the TIME100 Health 2024, a new annual list of 100 individuals who most influenced...
View ArticleMAP demands urgent action to halt Rafah offensive and avert further...
Israel's disastrous invasion of Rafah, where more than one million Palestinians are sheltering for their lives, appears to be imminent. This morning the Israeli military has ordered 100,000 people in...
View Article“When I reach home from work each day, my kids run towards me and I give them...
The third blog in our ‘Voices from Gaza’ series comes from Mohammed Al Khatib, MAP’s Senior Programme Manager in Gaza. After being displaced eight times, he is currently sheltering in Rafah with his...
View ArticleNew poll shows sustained British public support for immediate ceasefire in...
A YouGov poll commissioned by Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu) has shown that the majority of British people think there should be an immediate...
View Article“I wish to return back to the place where our house once stood, to search for...
In the fourth of our ‘Voices from Gaza’ blog series, Nawraz Abu Libdeh, MAP’s Finance and Administration Officer, reflects on everything she has lost, including her own son, over the past seven months...
View ArticleIRC and MAP: Urgent call for international action as some in Gaza survive on...
Amidst Israel’s military invasion of Rafah that threatens further deterioration to the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) conditions in southern Gaza, and based on recent trips to Gaza, the...
View ArticleWhat it’s like being a humanitarian aid worker in Gaza, more than 200 days...
In the fifth of our ‘Voices from Gaza’ blog series, Tarneem Hammad describes what life is like as an aid worker responding to the humanitarian needs on the ground, amid more than 200 days of Israel’s...
View Article22 charities welcome ICJ order to halt Israel’s military offensive in Rafah,...
“As an aid worker in Gaza the current situation is deeply distressing. The feeling of helplessness and frustration is overwhelming. Our primary mission is to help those in need, but with the borders...
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