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.

Medical aid convoy stranded on Gaza border

26 May 2009
A convoy bringing medical aid to Gaza is stranded at the border with Egypt, after most of the activists and volunteers with it were denied entry. Only 16 of the...

Pathways to Palestine

26 May 2009
The 4000 mile cycle aims to raise money for humanitarian aid and awareness ofthe plight of ordinary civilians in Gaza. 4 Students 4000 miles 14 countries 40 days. MAY 2009 Irish cyclists intend to "sell/phlog"...

Health conditions worsening in Gaza as borders remain closed

26 May 2009
United Nations News Service The deteriorating health situation in Gaza has been intensified by Israel's blockade of crossings into the area, the United Nations agency tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees...

Palestinian infant dies waiting for permission to leave Gaza

25 May 2009
Maan News The number of Palestinians to die as a result of the Israeli and Egyptian siege of Gaza reached 337 when an infant succumbed to illness on Monday. The child,...

Netanyahu: We'll build in existing settlements

24 May 2009
AP - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel will continue to build homes in existing West Bank settlements, defying U.S. calls to halt settlement growth. The comments came...

Israeli forces kill two Gazans near Kerem Shalom crossing

22 May 2009
Ma'an - Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinians near the Kerem Shalom crossing in the southern Gaza Strip Friday morning, military officials said. Israeli soldiers claimed they spotted two armed...

Gaza doctor whose family were killed by IDF fundraises for Israeli hospital

21 May 2009
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Gaza infertility specialist, is a familiar figure to Israelis - a Palestinian who crossed the lines of enmity years ago to work in Israeli hospitals...

Aid workers on hunger strike after Gaza entry refused

21 May 2009
Nine European aid workers and medics have gone on hunger strike at the Rafah border crossing to protest against Egypt's decision not to allow them into the Gaza Strip,...

UNRWA Health Report

20 May 2009
Health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan Of the 4.7 million Palestinians who are refugees registered by the United Nations Relief...

Infant dies at a Gaza hospital

20 May 2009
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Tuesday morning that a 1-year old infant died on Monday at a local hospital in Rafah due to several complications,...

Gaza: Israeli airstrikes leave five Palestinians wounded

20 May 2009
Ma'an - The Israel's air force bombed smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, hours after overnight strikes left five Palestinians wounded. At 11:20pm, Israeli warplanes bombed...

MAP President writes on Political Ethics

19 May 2009
Politicians were warned - often. But Thatcherism followed by New Labour created an ethical void Five years ago, the Power Inquiry was set up to report on the state of...

What Obama and Netanyahu really said to each other

19 May 2009
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, listen, I first of all want to thank Prime Minister Netanyahu for making this visit. I think we had a extraordinarily productive series of conversations, not...

Amira Hass / Israel bans books, music and clothes from entering Gaza

18 May 2009
Haaretz Israel allows only food, medicine and detergent into the Gaza Strip. Thousands of items, including vital products for everyday activity, are forbidden. Altogether only 30 to 40 select commercial items...

All three Gaza crossings to open on Monday

18 May 2009
Gaza - Ma'an - Israel will open each of its three entry points into the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to crossings official Raed Fattuh. Fattuh told Ma'an that the...

Gaza child dies, unable to reach Israeli hospital

18 May 2009
Gaza Strip - A sick child in the Gaza Strip died on Sunday after Palestinian infighting and a blockade on the territory prevented his parents from seeking medical treatment...

Health ministry: Dialysis solutions to run out of stock in 3 days

15 May 2009
The Palestinian health ministry in the Gaza Strip has warned that its stock of dialysis solutions is going to run out of its stores within three days. The ministry appealed...

PA Health Ministry coordinates wtih UN, Israel in effort to re-stock Gaza medical warehouses

14 May 2009
Maan News -The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health began loading trucks with medicine, medical equipment and solutions destined for the Gaza Strip after health officials successfully coordinated with Israeli...

Pope challenges Israel to give Palestinians homeland

14 May 2009
Pope Benedict used a visit to a West Bank refugee camp yesterday to issue his most resonant plea yet for an independent Palestinian state, while describing the Israeli military's...

'Go back and die in Gaza'

13 May 2009
Al Jazeera - Stephanie Doetzer Since Israel's closure of the Gaza Strip in 2007, only severely sick Palestinians have been allowed to seek medical attention elsewhere provided they receive authorisation...