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.

Gaza Mothers, Newborns Affected by Israeli Blockade

25 August 2009
IRIN - Inadequate infrastructure, lack of equipment and a shortage of hospital staff are contributing to the deterioration of hospital care for mothers and newborns in Gaza, according to...

3 Palestinians, Israeli wounded in Gaza clash

25 August 2009
AP - Three Palestinians and an Israeli were wounded Monday in violence on the Gaza-Israel border, according to officials from both sides. Israeli military said soldiers opened fire on a...

Report: Israel rejects Gazan appeal for Ramadan, school supplies

19 August 2009
Ma'an - Israel reportedly rejected a Palestinian request to allow additional goods into the besieged Strip as the month of Ramadan and the start of the school year approach,...

HRW: Israel killed Gaza women, children waving white flags

14 August 2009
Ma'an - Israeli soldiers killed Palestinian women and children who were in groups raising white flags signaling their civilian status during the recent assault on the Gaza Strip, Human...

UNRWA warns of the humanitarian impact of more Jerusalem evictions

7 August 2009
UNRWA welcomes the statements this week by the international community which deplore the evictions of two families from their homes in the Jerusalem district of Sheikh Jarrah. However, UNRWA...

Israeli troops accused of abuse

6 August 2009
As the US increases the pressure to get Israelis and Palestinians back to peace talks, the Obama administration has asked Israel to help improve Palestinians' quality of life. But a...

Epic bike-ride to aid Gaza

6 August 2009
The National Student - Five Students have overcome hypothermia to continue a 6,000 km cycle to Gaza. Pathways to Palestine is a team consisting of Glasgow Caledonian and Robert Gordon...

Mental Health Workers in Gaza Bear the Brunt

6 August 2009
Despite the immense burden of the psychological needs of the people, mental health workers in the besieged Gaza Strip have continued to do their work, relieving many traumatized men,...

MAP cyclists raise £79,877 for Gaza (and still counting)

6 August 2009
Cycling for Gaza completed a 300k cycle challenge from London to Paris, that started out in London on the 2nd of July and finished in Paris on the 4th...

Gaza: Swimming in sewage

5 August 2009
IRIN - Less than 50m from a black, barrel-sized pipe pouring raw sewage directly into the sea, children are playing in the waves. The pipe runs from one of three...

Irish Cyclists Arrive After Trans-Europe Bike Ride, En Route to Gaza

4 August 2009
IMEMC - Cycling close to double the distance of the Tour de France, three Irish cyclists are now on the final stretch of their journey from Ireland to Gaza....

Marginal errors

3 August 2009
The National - As the rebuilding of Nahr al Bared slowly begins, is Lebanon preparing to bring Palestinian refugees in from the fringes? Marc Perelman reports - "This is Lebanon's Guantanamo."...

MOH: Gaza warehouses out of supplies, "medical disaster" at hand

3 August 2009
Gaza - Ma'an - Ministry of Health warehouses are running out of 80 different kinds of cancer, psychiatric and post-operative medications and 125 different kinds of medical supplies relating...

Gaza children shatter world record

31 July 2009
It was an unlikely place to shatter a world record, but the beaches of the Gaza Strip were the venue for thousands of Palestinian children who flew the largest...

Vast majority Gazans depend on aid: UNRWA director

30 July 2009
(Xinhua) -- The vast majority of Gaza's 1.5 million population depends on aid after more than two years of Israeli nearly-total siege, a UN aid agency official said. "The numbers...

Israel 'to allow cement into Gaza'

30 July 2009
JERUSALEM - Israel has authorised the transfer of cement into the impoverished Gaza Strip for the first time since its devastating war in the Hamas-ruled enclave, officials told AFP...

UN and International Agencies Fear Gaza Educational System Unprepared for new term

29 July 2009
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator, representing UN aid agencies in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), and the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA), represented by at least 25 NGOs, today...

First young diabetes patient in Palestine receives insulin pump

28 July 2009
PNN - Life will never be the same for young Tema Gibran, a Palestinian child suffering from diabetes. She has been given the chance to live a more normal childhood,...

Out of the Stone Age: Empowering a West Bank village

27 July 2009
As the Americans embark on a new peace mission, Donald Macintyre reports from a West Bank village trapped by its history but now lit up with help from across...