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.

Ambulances Prevented from Entering E.Jerusalem

23 November 2009
PRESS RELEASE: Ambulances Prevented from Entering Palestinian Neighborhoods in East Jerusalem without Prior Approval or Police Escort 19 November 2009 • Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulances may not enter Palestinian neighborhoods...

Surgery okay delayed, Gaza patient dies

19 November 2009
Samir al-Nadim, 25, a cardiac patient, scheduled to undergo surgery in Nablus month ago. He even had opinion from Israeli doctor indicating severity of his case. Authorization delayed, Al-Nadim...

Help us to end the pain of Gaza’s children.

19 November 2009
Through our psychosocial care programme, MAP is helping the children of Gaza to recover from their psychological wounds, to be children again. The drawings in this pamphlet, just some of...

Israel steps up Gaza Siege

19 November 2009
Al Mezen - The Israeli siege and collective punishment of the Gaza Strip have continued, causing more deterioration to the human rights and humanitarian conditions. The severe restrictions on imports...

Israeli settlement plan denounced

18 November 2009
BBC - The US and UN have criticised Israel's approval of 900 extra housing units at a Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs and UN Secretary...

EU contributes to school rebuilding in Lebanon

18 November 2009
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the EU today inaugurated the Deir Qasi preparatory school in Mieh Mieh, in...

Israel approves 900 settler homes

17 November 2009
BBC - Israel's interior ministry has authorised the construction of 900 new housing units at a Jewish settlement to the south of Jerusalem. The planning and construction committee approved the...

MAP Surgeons Enter Gaza

17 November 2009
MAP - Sir Terence English and Dr John Beavis have led a MAP team of seven primary care surgeons into Gaza to provide much needed specialist training to Palestinian...

Dream of a girl in Lebanon refugee camp

17 November 2009
BEIRUT, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Every afternoon, 12-year-old Sahar Karmo goes to the Youth and Children's Center in Beirut's Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp for free education. Having quit school recently,...

MAP Event - Dr Mads Gilbert

16 November 2009
URUKNET - "We heard the shelling, we heard the bombing-they [injured patients] came in by the hundreds, walking and running, in private cars and ambulances, and it went on...

Israeli ministers threaten to annex West Bank

16 November 2009
Ma'an - Israeli ministers continued threatening to take unilateral steps of its own if the Palestinian Authority declares a state absent a negotiated peace agreement. According to Israeli sources, Benjamin...

Douglas Alexander: Access to Gaza could be granted without compromising Israel's security

10 November 2009
The Britain-Palestine All-Party Parliamentary Group held its annual reception today (9November 2009), an event addressed by senior politicians from all three main parties in the House of Commons, including...

Life in hell along the Gaza-Israel border

9 November 2009
Ma'an - Residents of the Gaza Strip's borders live in a state of fear, particularly those who own agricultural lands near the eastern borders and cannot access them from...

Stop East Jerusalem home demolitions

9 November 2009
HRW - Israeli authorities in East Jerusalem should immediately stop demolishing Palestinian homes in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch said today. In the week beginning October 27, 2009,...

WHO health supplies barred from delivery to Gaza hospitals

30 October 2009
Ma'an - Israeli crossings authorities refused for the fourth time, to allow the transport of equipments and medical supplies to Hospitals in the Gaza Strip, asource at the World...

UN Secretary General - we see no progress on (Gaza) reconstruction

29 October 2009
Meanwhile, ten months after hostilities ended in Gaza, we see no progress on reconstruction or the re-opening of borders. At the donors' conference in Egypt, we raised .5 billion...

Jerusalem must be capital of both Israel and Palestine, Ban says

29 October 2009
UN - Jerusalem must be the capital of two States - Israel and Palestine - living side-by-side in peace and security, with arrangements for the holy sites acceptable to...

UN calls for halt to house demolitions in East Jerusalem

28 October 2009
In light of today's events in East Jerusalem, in which Israeli authorities demolished the homes of six Palestinian families, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reiterated...

Ehud Olmert could face war crimes arrest if he visits UK

28 October 2009
The Guardian - Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister during the Gaza war, would probably face arrest on war crimes charges if he visited Britain, according to a UK lawyer...