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.

Lift the Gaza blockade

22 December 2009
Nick Clegg - The suffering is shocking. And nobody will benefit from the radicalism that confinement engenders. On 27 December last year, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, an...

COUNTDOWN TO GAZA ANNIVERSARY

22 December 2009
Medical Aid for Palestinians and 15 other agencies criticise Israel for banning the import of materials urgently needed for reconstruction but also lambast world powers for not doing enough...

Help end Gaza blockade, aid groups urge EU

22 December 2009
Guardian -The EU should commit itself to ending the blockade of the Gaza Strip and put its relations with Israel on hold pending tangible progress, 16 humanitarian and human...

Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs

21 December 2009
The Guardian - Israel has admitted that pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others without the consent of their families - a practice that it said ended in...

COUNTDOWN TO GAZA ANNIVERSARY

21 December 2009
See how MAP is working with general and community paediatrics including growth, development, disability and child protection.

COUNTDOWN TO GAZA ANNIVERSARY

20 December 2009
Compiled from footage taken on the ground in Gaza during the recent crisis, this film shows us glimpses of hope amid scenes of devestation, bleakness and despair.

Gaza must be rebuilt now

19 December 2009
Jimmy Carter - We can wait no longer to restart the peace process. The human suffering demands urgent relief. It is generally recognised that the Middle East peace process is...

COUNTDOWN TO GAZA ANNIVERSARY

19 December 2009
The Israeli offensive - codenamed Operation 'Cast Lead' by the Israeli authorities - claimed the lives of 118 women, and injured 825 more. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)...

COUNTDOWN TO GAZA ANNIVERSARY

18 December 2009
My name is Mahmoud Daher I am in charge of the office in Gaza, leading the programme in the Gaza office of the WHO. Could you tell us what the...

Making a Difference: An Interview with Rita Giacaman

17 December 2009
Rita Giacaman, PharmD, is a professor of public health at the Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory. She is a founding member of...

Zero Stock in Gaza

17 December 2009
Below is a selection of drugs that are at zero stock according to the central drugs store (CDS) in Gaza: Amiodarone - used when heart rhythms are wrong often in...

COUNTDOWN TO GAZA ANNIVERSARY

17 December 2009
Last December, Israel began a 23-day bombardment of Gaza, killing around 1,400 people. One year on, a generation of children is growing up amid the wreckage of that attack,...

Palestinian tunnel tycoons feeding demand for banned goods

15 December 2009
The Guardian - Mahmoud is proud of the motorbike he bought two months ago for 0, now parked in the sand at the entrance of one of the tunnels...

Qalqiliya village in 'dire economic' straights

15 December 2009
Ma'an - The northern West Bank village of Azzun Atma, eastern Qalqiliya is reported to have the highest rate of unemployment in the West Bank, according to a report...

Gaza power cuts up to 32 hours per week

14 December 2009
Ma'an - Electricity is to be distributed in Gaza on just four days a week, for eight hours a day, a spokesman for the local power company said on...

New Israeli funds for West Bank settlements

14 December 2009
BBC - The Israeli cabinet has decided to include some West Bank settlements in a national scheme that will entitle them to millions of dollars' worth of funds. They are...

Gaza one year on: The aftermath of a tragedy

14 December 2009
The Independent - To mark the anniversary of the offensive which left hundreds of innocent civilians dead, Donald MacIntyre revisits the scene of one of the most horrifying conflicts...

Egypt going underground to stem Gaza smuggling

11 December 2009
AP - Egypt is installing a series of metal sheets some 60 feet deep along its border with Gaza in an attempt to block tunnels that serve as a...

Food labels advice change over Palestinian territories

11 December 2009
BBC - UK food labels are set to distinguish between goods from Palestinians in the occupied territories and produce from Israeli settlements. Food packaging guidelines advise a change from labels...

Israel seals Gaza borders

11 December 2009
Ma'an - Israeli forces decided on to close all goods crossing points into the Gaza Strip on Friday, a Palestinian official said. Borders official Raed Fattouh told Ma'an that Israel...