The 2014 conflict left Gazaâs healthcare shattered. When will justice be done?
MAP Honorary Patron, Baroness Helena Kennedy, writes in the Guardian: As the first anniversary of the Gaza conflict approaches, the battle for the narrative is again raging. The UN’s commission of...
View ArticleGaza: "So many ambulances were struck that patients started refusing to...
MAP surgeon Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah writes in Independent Voices: In July last year, Anas ‘Bader’ Hatem Qdeih, a seven-year-old boy already experiencing the fourth major conflict of his short life, was...
View ArticleUK supports UN Gaza accountability resolution
The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva has taken a vital step towards ensuring accountability for attacks on healthcare in Gaza during last summer’s conflict. States voted on a resolution which refers...
View ArticleLord Patten: UK Parliament can take a lead on peace process
Whatever happened to the Middle East Peace Process, now bereft even of the attentions of Tony Blair? We know the answer. It has been buried somewhere amidst the settlements on the West Bank and the...
View ArticleNew report highlights UK Parliament engagement on Palestine
On the anniversary of the 2014 attacks on Gaza, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu) have released a new report on UK Parliament's engagement with...
View ArticleAl Jazeera: 'Gaza health sector critically ill after war'
(Al Jazeera, 8th July 2015) One year after violence tore through the Gaza Strip in the summer war of 2014, Palestinian human rights groups have released a report detailing the damage to Gaza's health...
View ArticleTony Laurance: In Gaza, let's put people before politics
(Op-Ed in Al Jazeera, 8th July 2015) Today marks the anniversary of Israel's "Operation: Protective Edge" that wrought havoc across the Gaza Strip killing over 2,200 Palestinians, injuring another...
View ArticleMAP and Caabu launch latest report in Parliament
On the anniversary of the start of the 2014 attacks on Gaza, Medical Aid for Palestinians, in partnership with the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu) launched their latest report at a...
View ArticleMalnutrition: Gaza's hidden health threat
With four major Israeli military operations on Gaza in a decade, and the ever-increasing destruction they have wrought, it is perhaps not surprising that much of the focus on the health of...
View ArticlePalestinian toddler killed in Israeli settler arson attack, family treated at...
An 18-month-old Palestinian child has been killed in an arson attack by Israeli settlers on his home in Duma in the West Bank. His parents and five-year-old brother were also injured in the attack and...
View ArticleSettler violence highlights importance of MAPâs work in the West Bank
Last week’s arson attack in Duma, which killed an 18-month-old baby and left his parents and brother in a critical condition, is just the latest in an escalating trend of violent attacks on...
View ArticleTreating the victims of the Duma arson attack
Following the arson attack by Israeli settlers last week which resulted in the tragic death of an 18-month-old Palestinian toddler and his father, and left his mother and brother facing a year in...
View ArticleUNRWA School Year Open
MAP were pleased to hear this week that the new UNRWA school year will be going ahead after the agency had warned that their funding crisis may mean half a million Palestinian would be without...
View ArticleMarking World Humanitarian Day
MAP is proud to be a member of the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition who put out a statement this week to mark World Humanitarian Day, a day designated by the United Nations General Assembly...
View ArticlePalestinians suffer in the shadows of Syria's Civil War
(Syria Deeply) No one has been safe during Syria’s ongoing civil war, which has resulted in the deaths of more than 240,000 people and left more than 4 million refugees outside the country’s borders....
View ArticleSurge in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes condemned by 31...
Thirty-one aid, faith, human rights, and development organizations are calling on world leaders to take urgent action to halt ongoing demolitions and hold the government of Israel accountable for the...
View ArticleMAP's Emergency Response in Lebanon
Update for our field team in Lebanon: MAP is covering the cost of hot meals and water for around 920 Palestinians who've fled violence in Ein el Helweh refugee camp in central Lebanon and are...
View Article36 aid organisations and 400,000 people launch public call to end the Gaza...
Reconstruction of Gaza could take 17 years with just 5% of building materials allowed in one year on More than 400,000 people from around the globe have today joined 36 aid, faith, development and...
View ArticleAl Jazeera: Petition pushes for end to Israel's Gaza blockade
One year after a ceasefire agreement ended Gaza's 51-day war, hundreds of thousands of people have signed a petition urging world leaders to pressure Israel to lift its blockade of the Palestinian...
View ArticlePeter Kosminsky to direct film about former MAP surgeon's experiences in...
Peter Kosminsky, the director of the acclaimed period dramaWolf Hall, has written a new feature film for the BBC based on the real life experience of a female British surgeon trapped in a Palestinian...
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