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 votes to endorse Gaza report

16 October 2009
BBC - The UN Human Rights Council has backed a report into the Israeli offensive in Gaza that accuses both Israel and Palestinian militants of war crimes. The report by...

Gaza in dire need of aid, UNWRA official says

16 October 2009
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The Gaza Strip is in dire need of humanitarian aid, according to the director of operations in Gaza for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. John...

UN body to vote on Gaza report

16 October 2009
The UN Human Rights Council is due to vote on whether to endorse a report which accuses both Israel and Hamas of war crimes in Gaza. Israel has campaigned intensively...

Despite promises to Obama, construction continues in dozens of W. Bank settlements

16 October 2009
Haaretz - Human rights activists monitoring the West Bank report that despite commitments Israel made to President Barack Obama's administration last month, widespread building activity commenced three weeks ago...

UN human rights chief endorses Goldstone Gaza report

15 October 2009
Haaretz - The United Nation's top human rights official backed a report Thursday accusing Israel and Hamas militants of war crimes during their conflict in Gaza last winter. Navi Pillay's...

Israel 'must answer' for Gaza war

15 October 2009
BBC - The Palestinians have urged the UN to act to punish Israel for its offensive in the Gaza Strip last winter. The move reverses a Palestinian decision to defer...

Q & A with UNRWA Commissioner Karen Abu Zayd

14 October 2009
Q) UNRWA[United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees] observed the60th anniversary of its establishment in the presence of Queen Raniya of Jordan, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, and...

Netanyahu stands by his hardline terms on peace

13 October 2009
Daily Star - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave no ground on peace with the Palestinians in a speech on Monday, reasserting they must recognize Israel as a Jewish...

Drama gives voice to young Palestinians

12 October 2009
Daily Star - UNRWA workshop opens window into refugee children's aspirations BEIRUT: "If Palestine was free I would play outside with my friends. If Palestine was free I could ask...

In Gaza, only the dying get to see their Israeli relatives

12 October 2009
Amira Hass (Haaretz) Qassem al-Masri's father has been suffering from liver problems for years. Sometimes he is hospitalized, and usually he doesn't feel well (but then again, no one...

HRW: Stop Blocking School Supplies from Entering Gaza

12 October 2009
JERUSALEM, October 10, 2009 (WAFA) - Israeli authorities should immediately lift restrictions that have left students in Gaza's public schools without textbooks and the most basic school supplies, such...

Textbook injustice in Gaza

9 October 2009
Mohammed Omer (New Stateman) Schoolchildren are stuck for basics as Israel blocks supplies As the 456,000 schoolchildren in the Gaza Strip start their academic year, they face chronic shortages of...

Animation confronts Gaza breast cancer taboo

9 October 2009
West Bank (CNN) -- The harsh reality of life and death in Gaza is a common theme for Palestinian filmmakers. But it was the 2004 death of a young Palestinian...

Israel foreign minister: Peace deal impossible now

8 October 2009
AP - Israel's foreign minister says there's no chance of ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for many years. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman says efforts to reach a final peace deal have...

Increases in the detention of young Palestinian children

7 October 2009
(DCI) According to the latest figures compiled by DCI-Palestine from sources including the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) and temporary Israeli army detention facilities, the number of Palestinian children detained...

Police increase presence in volatile Jerusalem

6 October 2009
AP - JERUSALEM - Israeli police have mobilized reinforcements from across the country to secure volatile Jerusalem after days of violent Palestinian protests. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said thousands of...

Palestinian women denied rights even in camps

5 October 2009
The Daily Star - Palestinian women in one of Lebanon's largest refugee camps say that with no rights in the country or even within their own community, they feel...

Lecture Series: Under Fire - Barriers to Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

2 October 2009
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is pleased to invite you to attend our lecture series, "Under Fire: Barriers to Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territory." Following the successful launch of...

Health ministry reports death of 358th victim of siege

1 October 2009
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Palestinian health ministry announced on Wednesday that a four-year-old child died in Gaza city from liver tumor after he could not travel outside Gaza Strip for...

Palestinian Refugee Women in Lebanon:Conditions and Challenges in Bourj al-Barajneh Camp

1 October 2009
Study by the Palestinian Women's Humanitarian Organization Beirut, Lebanon Acknowledgements This study was funded by Kvinna til Kvinna as part of a larger project aimed at empowering women in Bourj al-Barajneh Camp....