MAP News The latest developments in the Middle East as well as eye witness accounts and expert analysis from MAP's staff.

(Photo: Balata refugee camp, Nablus, occupied West Bank by Nuriya Oswald)

Cyclists pedalling through Turkey in solidarity with Palestinians

16 October 2012
PRESS RELEASE - IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cyclists pedalling through Turkey in solidarity with Palestinians Thirty-five cyclists from around the world will arrive in Turkey on 24 October to begin their three-day 2012...

Israeli strike kills 2 in central Gaza, 2 wounded

15 October 2012
(Ma'an) Two men were killed and two others seriously injured in an Israeli airstrike on central Gaza on Sunday afternoon, medics said. Israeli warplanes launched a deadly strike on a...

MAP Supports Work towards Recognition for Palestinian Nurses

12 October 2012
On the 26 September, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) took part in a round table discussion in Beirut organised by one of our local partners, Najdeh, through the Right...

Gaza’s civilians paying the price as hostilities escalate

12 October 2012
This week there has been a further escalation of the security situation in Gaza, with 'targeted assassinations', shelling from tanks and the heavy presence of planes overhead. One Palestinian...

Cycling4Gaza 2012 Challenge raising money for MAP projects

11 October 2012
Thirty-five cyclists from around the world are heading to Turkey on 24 October to begin their gruelling 2012 Cycling4Gaza Challenge around the Sea of Marmara, with the aim of...

MAP at the Labour Party Conference

11 October 2012
Last week MAP hosted a fringe event at the Labour Party Conference in association with the New Statesman entitled, 'New Thinking on Palestine: What Role Can British Policy Play?'...

Lancet-Palestinian Health Alliance Publication

10 October 2012
Earlier this year, MAP supported a two-day conference organised by the Lancet-Palestinian Health Alliance on the 'Health of Palestinians: Inside and Outside the occupied Palestinian territory.' The conference, which was...

Hidden health crisis facing Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

9 October 2012
(IRIN) New research has uncovered the hidden health toll that refugee life in Lebanon has taken on more than 400,000 Palestinians. UK medical journal The Lancet has published a series...

PA: Settlers destroy 120 olive trees in Nablus

9 October 2012
(Ma'an) Jewish extremists cut down over 120 olive trees on private Palestinian land in Nablus on Tuesday, a Palestinian Authority official said. The vandals were from the illegal settlement of...

Israel shells south Gaza amid rocket fire

8 October 2012
(Ma'an) Israeli forces fired a barrage of artillery shells on the southern Gaza Strip early Monday injuring five Palestinians, witnesses said, as Gaza brigades fired dozens of rockets into...

Witnesses: Settlers attack farmers, burn olive trees

7 October 2012
(Ma'an) A group of settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in the Ramallah town of Beitillu on Sunday, burning dozens of olive trees, witnesses said. Locals told official news agency Wafa that...

Children of the Occupation

5 October 2012
"…settlers stoned a bus injuring nine passengers, which was travelling on Road 60 in the Ramallah area." "…Israeli settlers physically assaulted and injured five Palestinians, including a 13 year old-boy,...

At least 40 people killed in Aleppo explosions, 20 Palestinians killed in Deraa

3 October 2012
(Ma'an) Four blasts ripped through a government-controlled district close to a military officers' club in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, killing at least 40 people and wounding more...

Five children among 12 killed in Syria air strike: activists

1 October 2012
(Daily Star, Beirut) A military air strike on the town of Salqeen in Syria's mostly rebel-held province of Idlib on Monday killed 12 people, including five children, the Syrian...

Fisherman Killed and Brother Wounded by Israel’s Forces

1 October 2012
(PCHR) On Friday, 28 September 2012, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian fisherman and wounded his brother, while they and a group of other fishermen were located a...

Leaders maintain dissociation policy but urge aid to refugees

29 September 2012
President Michel Sleiman and Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Friday that Lebanon would maintain a disassociation policy toward Syria while extending aid to refugees. Sleiman said that distancing the...

Israeli authorities 'prevented Red Cross visit to hunger striker'

28 September 2012
(Ma'an) Israeli prison guards prevented a critically ill prisoner on hunger strike from seeing a Red Cross representative, a lawyer said Friday. Samer al-Issawi is in a critical medical condition...

Financial Distress at the East Jerusalem Hospitals

28 September 2012
(World Health Organization) The East Jerusalem Hospitals (EJHs) are facing an unprecedented financial crisis as a result of accrued debt from the Palestinian Authority (PA) for patient care, totaling...

Lawyer: Sharawna almost blind after 88-day hunger strike

27 September 2012
(Ma'an) Ayman Sharawna is almost totally blind and suffering from severe kidney problems and partial memory loss after 88 days on hunger strike in an Israeli jail, rights groups...

Hundreds of Jews hurl rocks at cars in Jerusalem

27 September 2012
(Ha'aretz) Hundreds of Jews threw stones at cars in Jerusalem for several hours on Yom Kippur eve, and eyewitnesses reported that dozens of vehicles were damaged. Some of the cars...