MAP News provides latest round the clock updates of all major stories that impact on the lives of Palestinians across the Middle East. Will staff on the ground in offices in Beirut, Ramallah, Gaza and London we are able to provide expert analysis and comment on events.

No Treatment in Gaza, No Security Risk, but Israel Prevents a Seriously ill Man from Getting Treatment

10 February 2010
Gisha and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel appealed to the High Court of Justice on behalf of Issam Hamdan against a District Court ruling blocking his exit from Gaza for...

Palestinian refugee agency warns of funding gap

9 February 2010
AP -AMMAN, Jordan - The head of the U.N. agency aiding Palestinian refugees is warning of a looming funding shortfall and appealing for another 0 million. Filippo Grandi says the...

Jerusalem mayor to raze 200 Palestinian homes

9 February 2010
Maan - Jerusalem's mayor threatened last week to demolish 200 homes in Palestinian neighbourhoods of the city in an act even he conceded would probably bring long-simmering tensions over...

Two Gaza terminals partially open

9 February 2010
Ma'an - Gaza's Kerem Shalom and Karni crossings will open partially Tuesday, allowing the delivery of humanitarian aid and commercial goods into the besieged Gaza Strip, as well as...

Egypt steps up security on Gaza sea border

8 February 2010
AFP -Egypt is stepping up security on its maritime frontier with Gaza in a bid to prevent smuggling by sea, as work continues on an underground barrier along the...

HRW: Gaza inquiry fails war victims

7 February 2010
Ma'an - Israel has failed to demonstrate that it will conduct thorough and impartial investigations into alleged laws-of-war violations by its forces during last year's Gaza conflict, Human Rights...

Palestinians battle Israeli wall

7 February 2010
Palestinians and Israeli dissenters are getting together to fight Israel's plan to build another section of the separation wall in the occupied West Bank. According to environmentalists, the wall will...

Gaza: UN chief Ban Ki-moon rules evidence 'incomplete'

5 February 2010
BBC -There is not yet enough evidence to say whether Israel and the Palestinians are complying with UN demands to probe the Gaza conflict, the head of the UN...

Gaza power plant to cease operations

5 February 2010
Ma'an - The Gaza Strip's sole power plant will cease all operations late Friday night due to a lack of fuel, officials warned. The plant had already shut down services...

Peacebuilding through Health Among Israelis and Palestinians

4 February 2010
On December 11, 2009, US Institute of Peace's Health and Peacebuilding Working Group met to explore the idea of peace through health in a context where such efforts have...

Psychological trauma stalks Gaza children

3 February 2010
IRIN - Mona Samouni, 12, is depressed and has nightmares about the day - just over a year ago - when she witnessed her parents and several relatives being...

Why Gaza's fishermen turn are turning to farming

3 February 2010
BBC -Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza strip are being forced to build fish farms after Israel imposed restrictions on access to the sea caused a shortage of fish. It is...

Blair: Gaza's great betrayer

3 February 2010
It's more than a year since Israel launched its immoral attack on Gaza and Palestinians are still living on the verge of a humanitarian disaster. So what has Tony...

End of long ordeal for Palestinian refugees as desert camp closes

2 February 2010
UNHCR - The UN refugee agency closed the Al Tanf refugee camp between the borders of Syria and Iraqi on Monday and relocated the last of the Palestinian refugees...

Israel disciplines top officers on white phosphorus

1 February 2010
BBC - Israel has revealed it has disciplined two senior army officers for using white phosphorus shells during an offensive in Gaza. The admission is contained in the Israeli response...

Robert Fisk in the West Bank

1 February 2010
In the West Bank's stony hills, Palestine is slowly dying The Independent - In the richest of the Occupied lands, Israeli bureaucracy is driving Palestinians out of their homes. Robert...

Testimony: Young girl dies in Gaza after waiting two months for a permit to enter Israel for treatment

29 January 2010
B'Tselem Testimony - Amal Heji, 38 My brother's daughter, Fidaa Talal Salim Heji, began to suffer from health problems around March 2007, when she was fifteen. Among other things, she...

Sewage collapse threatens health of Palestinians in Gaza

28 January 2010
URUKNET - Palestinians in Gaza have a lot to contend with, especially since the war launched by the Israeli Occupiers just over a year ago. With the loss of...

UN impatient as blockade stalls Gaza building

27 January 2010
By Tim Franks BBC News, Gaza Strip There is a place of strange quiet in the cramped and crowded Gaza Strip. It looks, from the roof of a nearby United Nations school,...

UN Update on Gaza Blockade

27 January 2010
In December, a total of 2,597 truckloads of goods, including 281 truckloads (11 per cent) designated for humanitarian aid agencies, were allowed entry into Gaza, a five percent increase...