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.

Israel shuns UN call for Gaza war probe

26 January 2010
AP - A Cabinet minister says Israel won't set up an independent panel to investigate the Gaza war as the U.N. urged. The General Assembly called on Israel and "the...

Israel pays UN for Gaza war damage

25 January 2010
Al Jazeera - Israel has paid .5m to the United Nations for property damage and injuries the world body suffered during Israel's war on Gaza a year ago, officials...

Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel will never quit settlements

25 January 2010
BBC - The Israeli prime minister has taken part in tree-planting ceremonies in the West Bank while declaring Israel will never leave those areas. Benjamin Netanyahu said the Jewish settlements...

Ban urges Israel to end settlements

22 January 2010
Israel's settlement construction on occupied Palestinian territory is hindering Middle East peace efforts, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned on Thursday. Other policies like its annexation of East Jerusalem, which remains...

Netanyahu demands future Israeli presence in West Bank

21 January 2010
BBC - Israel's prime minister has said it must maintain a presence along the eastern border of a future Palestinian state to stop the smuggling of weapons. Benjamin Netanyahu said...

Gaza Health Fact Sheet

20 January 2010
The Gaza Strip has been the setting of a protracted political and socio-economic crisis. Recent events have resulted in a severe deterioration of the already precarious living conditions of...

MAP Statement

20 January 2010
UN Humanitarian Coordinator and Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA): "The closure of the Gaza Strip puts at risk the health of people in Gaza and undermines the functioning...

Hundreds Displaced By Gaza Flood

20 January 2010
IMEMC, January 18, 2010 Dozens of Palestinian homes were flooded in the Gaza Valley area on Monday evening, and hundreds of families were rendered homeless after Israel opened one...

PA to send humanitarian aid to Haiti

19 January 2010
Ma'an - During its weekly cabinet meeting on Monday evening the Palestinian Authority announced it is to provide humanitarian aid for the victims of Haiti and to form a...

Israel's Gaza blockade continues to suffocate daily life

18 January 2010
Israel must end its suffocating blockade of the Gaza Strip, which leaves more than 1.4 million Palestinians cut off from the outside world and struggling with desperate poverty, Amnesty...

Left to Bleed to Death, the Shurrab Family, Khan Younis

18 January 2010
Al-Mezan - Shortly after 2pm on 16 January 2009, during the Israeli declared 'humanitarian' ceasefire hours, Mohammed Shurrab, 65, and his two sons, Ibrahim, 18, and Kassab, 28, were...

In letter to UN, Gaza children demand justice

15 January 2010
Ma'an - Marking the aniversary of Israel's war on Gaza, hundreds of children gathered in Gaza City to sign a letter asking that the UN denounce as criminal the...

A Surgeon’s Story - John Beavis

14 January 2010
"As a medical student I was always interested in the management of trauma and, in particular, had an academic fascination for intensive-care work. I specialised in orthopaedics and trauma...

EU delegation to assess Gaza damage

14 January 2010
Fifty parliamentarians from across Europe are on their way to the Gaza Strip to assess conditions in the Palestinian enclave following the Israeli offensive a year ago, sources say. That...

Deal reached between UNRWA, PRCS opens up healthcare for Palestinians

14 January 2010
BEIRUT: An agreement signed on Wednesday between the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) will strengthen healthcare for Palestinian refugees in...

How women in the West Bank are overcoming poverty

13 January 2010
Oxfam - As the muezzin's dawn call to prayer fades, a group of women flock to the main square to sell their Palestinian delicacies. It's Ramadan and people are...

Displaced and desperate in Gaza

12 January 2010
Al Jazeera - One year has passed since the beginning of Operation Cast lead, Israel's 22-day military assault on the besieged Gaza Strip and suspended is a word that...

Lebanese refugees wait for their due

11 January 2010
Now Lebanon - Once dubbed the most prosperous Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Nahr al-Bared is today a barren landscape, with mounds of rubble sitting where sprawling neighborhoods used...

Israel prevents sight-impaired Gazans getting eye operations

11 January 2010
PHR-Israel-The Israeli authorities at Erez checkpoint this week prevented the exit of 17 sight-impaired patients, suffering from various eye diseases, from the Gaza Strip in order to undergo cornea...

Israeli strike kills 3 in central Gaza

10 January 2010
At least three Palestinians were killed by Israeli aircraft fire in central Gaza early Sunday evening, medics reported. Two of the victims were identified as Hasan Al-Qatarawi and Awad Naseir....