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.

The wretched scandal of Gaza

11 October 2011
Telegraph - Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set in the citrus groves of...

Gaza represents the ultimate failure of politics

11 October 2011
(Guardian) David Miliband - My visit to Gaza with Save the Children gave me a sense of life beyond the statistics. The international community must do more Government is all...

MAP at Conservatives Party Conference

6 October 2011
MAP completed its trilogy of conference events this week with a packed fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester. Caabu Director, Chris Doyle, opened proceedings describing the...

MAP at Labour Party Conference

29 September 2011
Ed Miliband, speaking at the fringe of the Labour party conference in Liverpool, described the quest for a two-state solution as "the top foreign policy priority" for his party. Miliband's...

MAP at the Liberal Democrat Conference

22 September 2011
This Monday MAP held a fringe event at the Liberal Democrat conference asking 'what role should Britain play in regards to Palestine?' The event, co-hosted by the New Statesman, was...

Britain and Palestine: A Parliamentary Focus

21 September 2011
MAP's overarching aim is to safeguard the right to health for Palestinians across the region. Our humanitarian and development work goes hand in hand with a strong commitment to...

Response to Palmer Report

21 September 2011
To: The Representatives of the Middle East Quartet (UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) and...

British Public Urge Cameron to Recognise Palestine

13 September 2011
A new YouGov (France switch YouGov out) opinion poll carried out by the global campaign organisation Avaaz has found that 71% of the public believe Palestinians have a right...

“To the children of Palestine, With Love” Fundraising Dinner - 7th October

8 September 2011
Due to circumstances beyond our control the children of Palestine event in Leyton on Friday 7th October has been cancelled. We will be contacting anyone who has already bought...

Amnesty Statement on Gaza Blockade

8 September 2011
Gaza blockade must be lifted following UN panel finding on flotilla raid Amnesty International today welcomed a UN panel's finding that the Israeli military used excessive force in the interception...

What could a state change for refugees?

6 September 2011
(The Daily Star) It's official. The state of Palestine has an embassy in Lebanon. Last month, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas hoisted his country's black, white, red and green flag...

Witness 15

1 September 2011
In this edition you will hear from our Director of Programmes in Beirut. In Lebanon, our Maternal and Child Health work continues to make a huge difference in the lives of...

Salty water compounds woes of Burj al-Barajneh camp residents

30 August 2011
Daily Star - Sometimes personal hygiene isn't a private matter."When I shower, my eyes burn," says Bashir Homato. He scratches his arms from behind the counter at a small...

Gaza's girl surfer battles pollution and prejudice

30 August 2011
(The Guardian) Twelve-year-old Sabah Abu Ghanim drags her board through the water as the sinking sun glints on the eastern Mediterranean. The wind has got up a little, and...

More killed in attacks on Gaza

25 August 2011
(PCHR) In the early morning of Thursday, 25 August 2011, two Palestinian civilians were killed and 25 others, including 11 children and 7 women, were wounded as Israeli warplanes...

Aid alone won't help the desperate Palestinians

25 August 2011
The Guardian - A UN reports links all of the Palestinian economy's dire problems to the Israeli occupation and associated constraints. Aid from the EU and others is merely...

Gaza pays the price ... again

24 August 2011
(Al Jazeera) The ongoing deadly Israeli air strikes on Gaza, and the exchange of home-made rockets fired from Gaza, has drawn mixed reactions from Palestinians in the besieged Gaza. First,...

Samira Hassassian

23 August 2011
MAP supporters will be saddened to hear of the death of our Patron, Samira Hassassian. Born in Beit -Jala, Palestine, Samira taught for 22 years at Bethlehem University in the...

Update from MAP's Gaza Team

22 August 2011
(MAP Gaza Team) Israeli operations against Gaza started on Thursday. · -On the same day at midnight airstrikes hit Gaza. A 13 years old boy was a victim of an...

Crisis in Gaza

22 August 2011
(MAP) Gaza has suffered airstrikes and shelling by Israel for last three days 14 are reported dead including children and medical staff, at least 40 are injured Hospitals are calling for...