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.

Israel green-lights France bid to rebuild Gaza hospital

30 September 2009
After refusing for several months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly agreed to a request by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to rebuild According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, Netanyahu...

Israeli minister Ehud Barak faces war crimes arrest threat during UK visit

30 September 2009
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Palestinians unite around Goldstone report on Gaza

29 September 2009
Palestinians unanimously support Justice Richard Goldstone's call for further investigations into allegations of war crimes committed during Israel's war on Gaza last winter. Goldstone, a Jewish South African judge, is...

Medics: Teens hurt by shelling in central Gaza

28 September 2009
Ma'an - Two Palestinians were reportedly injured when an Israeli artillery shell landed at a farm in the Al-Musddar neighborhood near Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip...

UNRWA 60th anniversary event

25 September 2009
A high-level commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) today highlighted not only the stabilizing presence of an Agency created in 1949...

UNRWA chief: Palestinian refugee crisis unparalleled

25 September 2009
No current world refugee crisis has gone unresolved longer than the Palestinian exodus, said the UN Relief and Works Agency's commissioner-general, Karen Abu Zayd, in New York on Thursday. "The...

President Obama speaks out against Israeli settlements

24 September 2009
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to address you for the first time as the 44th President...

Netanyahu: Israel won't agree to 1967 borders

24 September 2009
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Haaretz on Wednesday that he would not agree to the Palestinian demand to accept the 1967 borders as a condition for renewing peace negotiations. Netanyahu...

Justice in Gaza

24 September 2009
The New York Times - RICHARD GOLDSTONE, September 17 2009 I ACCEPTED with hesitation my United Nations mandate to investigate alleged violations of the laws of war and international human...

Commercial and humanitarian goods flow into Gaza slows

23 September 2009
The Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip will be the only crossing open for the second day in a row, marking the steepest decline in...

Campaign presses Palestinians' right to return

21 September 2009
BEIRUT: A media drive to highlight the plight of Lebanon's Palestinian refugees was called for by the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee (LPDC), Thursday. Speaking at an iftar held for members...

Textbooks Become a Dream

21 September 2009
GAZA CITY, Sep 17 (IPS) - A chronic shortage of school supplies, and severely overcrowded classrooms are crippling Gaza's educational system as tens of thousands of children begin a...

After the massacre: Sabra and Shatila, 27 years later

21 September 2009
Ma'an - "That is the old Israeli watchtower and entrance to Sabra," a man on the street pointed, standing in front of the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camps. Below...

IDF denies it is refusing to process Gaza applications for medical treatment

21 September 2009
Israeli human rights organizations are in an uproar after being notified earlier this week that army officials would no longer respond to applications they filed on behalf of Gaza...

Palestinians queue at checkpoint

21 September 2009
Palestinians are trying to cross the Israeli-controlled Qalandia checkpoint for prayers at the Al Asqa mosque in Jerusalem, to mark the end of Ramadan. Men must be over 50 and...

TUC backs boycott of Israeli goods

17 September 2009
Guardian - Unions back consumer-led boycott of goods originating from illegal settlements The TUC today backed a targeted boycott of Israeli goods originating from illegal settlements and an end to...

UN Gaza report accuses Israel and Hamas of war crimes

16 September 2009
Inquiry into Gaza conflict singles out Israeli policy towards Palestinians for most serious condemnation Israel's offensive against Gaza last January was "a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and...

Ken Loach and Ricky Tomlinson show MAP support

15 September 2009
Statement from film director Ken Loach and actor Ricky Tomlinson "The expulsion of the Palestinians from their homes and their continued violent oppression is one of the great tragedies of...

UN report: Gaza water system on verge of collapse

15 September 2009
Ma'an/Agencies - Gaza's underground water system is in serious danger of collapse after Israel's recent assault compounded years of overuse and contamination, according to a report from a key...

UN Palestinian refugee chief AbuZayd: "periods of hope have all been dashed"

14 September 2009
Karen AbuZayd, the Head of the UN Agency that provides food, health and housing to millions of Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) was at the European Parliament Thursday (11 September). She...