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.

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...

Israeli policies displacing children in rural areas

27 October 2009
Maan News - Intolerable living conditions in the West Bank and Gaza are driving families to abandon their land and homes, displacing children and resulting in low-quality living situations,...

Damaged Gaza schools need windows before winter

27 October 2009
Reuters - Gaza schools damaged by Israeli bombing will be exposed to the cold and rain this winter unless Israel relaxes its blockade to permit the import of windows,...

Israel 'cuts Palestinians water'

27 October 2009
BBC - Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of clean, safe water, Amnesty International says. In a report, the human rights group says Israeli water restrictions...

Gaza: A Prison by the Sea

26 October 2009
The U.S.-Israel-Egypt blockade forced on Gazans has turned it into-what AntiWar Radio host Scott Horton calls-"a prison by the sea". This documentary for al Jazeera (AJE), Locked In: Life...

UNRWA official: Israeli refusal to allow stationary into Gaza illogical

26 October 2009
GAZA, (PIC)-- An UNRWA official in Gaza criticised the Israeli occupation for not allowing stationary and textbooks into the Gaza Strip describing this action as illogical and unacceptable. Adnan Abu...

Eyes in Gaza : Dr. Mads Gilbert

26 October 2009
Medical Aid for Palestinians, SOAS Palestine Society and UCL Palestine Society present Eyes in Gaza : Dr. Mads Gilbert Dr. Mads Gilbert is a Norwegian doctor, specialising in emergency medicine. One...

No way home: The tragedy of the Palestinian diaspora

23 October 2009
The Independent - special report by Judith Miller and David Samuels It is a cynical but time-honoured practice in Middle Eastern politics: the statesmen who decry the political and humanitarian...

Amira Hass on Democracy Now

23 October 2009
Amira Hass is a regular columnist with Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper and the only Israeli journalist to have spent several years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West...

Lebanon's refugee waiting room

23 October 2009
URUKNET - By Andrew Wander in Beirut Some 23 years after fleeing war, the al-Rukun family still live in a disused hospital "We thought we would be here for a few...

MAP Annual Review

22 October 2009
Looking back over the events of the past year one cannot help but focus on the continuing humanitarian disaster in Gaza, exacerbated by the military incursion, which caused so...

Quartet envoy's eight-year-old niece sees the real Palestine

22 October 2009
Bethlehem - Ma'an - Eight-year-old Alexandra Darby, the niece of Quartet Envoy Tony Blair, toured the West Bank this week on a bicycle, peddling an estimated 200 kilometers from...

Child died in Gaza due to the siege, death toll reaches 360

21 October 2009
IMEMC - A Palestinian child was announced dead on Tuesday as he was prevented from leaving the Gaza Strip to get life saving medical care he needed. Doctors reported that...

Israel to allow coffee, tea into Gaza

21 October 2009
Ma'an - Israel has decided to allow coffee and tea into the besieged Gaza Strip starting on Thursday, a Palestinian official said. Nasser As-Sarraj, undersecretary of the Ministry of National...

Goldstone rejects Israel protests

20 October 2009
BBC - UN human rights investigator Richard Goldstone has rejected Israel's claim that the peace process would be harmed by his report on the offensive in Gaza. Judge Goldstone said...

Human Rights Council divisions must not obstruct Gaza accountability

20 October 2009
Amnesty - The political divisions surrounding the adoption of today's Human Rights Council resolution on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories must not become an obstacle...

Actress Mia Farrow speaks out for Gaza's children

19 October 2009
JERUSALEM - Actress Mia Farrow headed back to the United States on Sunday haunted by the image of a young girl who spoke in a tiny voice of the...

Palestinian refugees reject 'sell-out' deal

19 October 2009
By Mahan Abedin BEIRUT - The latest tri-lateral Middle East peace talks have been overshadowed by the United Nations report by Richard Goldstone that accuses both Israel and Hamas...

Locked in: Life in Gaza

19 October 2009
Al Jazeera - Munzer al-Dayyeh is a 40-year-old mechanic living in Gaza. In a land of ruin and disrepair, Munzer is kept busy fixing generators and repairing motorbikes. In June...