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.

Egypt: No more aid convoys through Rafah

9 January 2010
Ma'an/Agencies - Egyptian authorities will set a new mechanism for shipping international aid to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, following anger over recent aid convoys for Gaza, Egyptian...

Egypt deports MP George Galloway

8 January 2010
PA - George Galloway was deported from Cairo today despite wanting to return to Gaza to help members of a humanitarian convoy who have reportedly been arrested, a spokeswoman...

Palestinian killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza

8 January 2010
BBC - Israeli air strikes have hit a number of targets in Gaza, killing at least one person and wounding at least one other, Palestinian medics had said. The strikes...

'Israel to compensate UN for Gaza war damages'

8 January 2010
Haaretz - Israel has agreed in principle to reimburse losses the United Nations suffered during Israel's three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip last winter,a UN spokesman said on Thursday. Spokesman...

Into the light

7 January 2010
Amateur photographer and director filmed injured girls in Gaza City during a school-organized field day who sing of 'the happy bacteria on the tooth' and promise to stop eating...

Viva Palestina Break the siege of Gaza

7 January 2010
After days of pressure imposed by the Egyptian authorities the Viva Palestina Convoy have 'triumphantly' entered Gaza this evening! Despite being attacked by Egyptian riot police at the port of...

UNRWA chief holds rare meeting with representatives of Palestinian factions

6 January 2010
SIDON: The Director of Affairs of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Lebanon said on Tuesday his agency was in the process of "re-structuring" its top...

Gaza: One year after the war

6 January 2010
MSF - On December 27, 2008 the Israeli military launched Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip. The operation involved raids, intensive aerial bombing and a land offensive that began...

Clash in Egypt over Gaza aid effort

6 January 2010
At least 55 people have been injured in clashes between Egyptian police and pro-Palestinian activists who were trying to deliver aid into the Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses say. Some 520 activists...

Work on Egypt-Gaza steel wall moving forward

5 January 2010
AP -Gaza Strip - A jackhammer pounded large steel beams side by side into the sandy soil on the Egyptian side of Gaza's border, putting in place an underground...

Israel okays new Jerusalem settlement buildings

5 January 2010
Ma'an - Israeli authorities on Monday approved the construction of four new settlement apartment buildings on land taken from Palestinians in occupied east Jerusalem. According to Israeli media, the country's...

Gaza MoH runs out of 141 different medicines

4 January 2010
Ma'an - The Ministry of Health in Gaza said it has run out of 141 types of medicines and 116 types of medical supplies due to Israeli restrictions on...

MAP 25th year anniversary publication

4 January 2010
Established in the aftermath of the massacre at Sabra and Shatila, today MAP delivers health and medical care to those worst affected by conflict, occupation and displacement. Working in...

Gaza Infant Dying due to Siege

3 January 2010
Pal Telegraph- As the last Galactomin 19 can, a nutritionally complete infant formula, is almost used up, death threatens the life of Yahia Ahmad Abu Shabab, a 4-year-old infant,...

Gaza war mother tells how she and her 'miracle baby' survived against the odds

28 December 2009
The Guardian -At the aniversary of the three-week Israeli war, a Beit Lahia resident describes how, revived from a coma, she met her new son delivered by caesarean after...

Ban: Israel's Gaza blockade 'unacceptable'

27 December 2009
Ma'an - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Israel to lift its blockade of Gaza on Sunday in a message marking the one-year anniversary of the attack on the Palestinian...

23 Days of War, 928 Days of Closure: Life One Year after Israel’s Latest Offensive on the Gaza Strip

27 December 2009
PCHR Release New Report The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) release 23 Days of War, 928 Days of Closure: Life One Year after Israel's Latest Offensive on the...

International Aid Convoy Members Prepare for Hunger Strike

27 December 2009
Members of the Viva Palestina international aid convoy to Gaza will begin a hunger strike today at 11.25 am in protest at the Egyptian government's refusal to allow the...

Gaza: End The Blockade - Let The Aid In

24 December 2009
"Doctors are doing a fantastic job, but they are having to improvise in circumstances that are almost impossible. The only way for the situation to get better is to...

Gaza: One year after war, still no prospect of decent life

23 December 2009
ICRC - Nearly a year after the devastating three-week military operation in the Gaza Strip that began on 27 December 2008, most of the 1.5 million people in the...