Burns Victim - Lubna’s Story
9 September 2010
(MAP) Lubna is just 2 years old, yet when we visit her she is lying alone in an adult's intensive care bed in the Al-Shiffa Burns Unit where she...
Power cuts put lives at risk
9 September 2010
ICRC - A serious electricity shortage in the Gaza Strip is disrupting the lives of its people. Those hardest hit include hospital patients who depend on machines, such as...
“I was asked to spy if I wanted to study”
8 September 2010
WHO - Ahmed* is a medical student. He cannot continue his training at an East Jerusalem hospital because his permit was confiscated. He recounts how the Israeli secret service...
This time in Washington, honest brokerage is not going to be enough
7 September 2010
MAP Supporter Avi Shlaim in the Guardian - An intractable asymmetry between Palestinian and Israeli power bases means the US must intervene. Otherwise, these talks fail.
The pope, according to...
U.S. group plans 'Free Palestine' aid flight to Gaza
6 September 2010
Haaretz - A U.S.-based pro-Palestinian organization is planning to fly a plane-load of aid to Gaza, in defiance of an Israeli blockade on the Hamas-ruled territory. The flight was...
2 dead after Israel bombs south Gaza
5 September 2010
Maan - Gaza medics have retrieved the body of a second Palestinian killed when Israel's air force struck the southern Strip overnight, officials said Sunday morning.
Gaza medical services spokesman...
Settlers defy peace talks with new construction across West Bank
2 September 2010
Haaretz - Yesha council says settlers will start building in at least 80 settlements, breaking a government freeze that ends on September 26.
Hours before peace talks were set to...
UN: refugee camps have higher jobless rates than Palestine
2 September 2010
Daily Star - BEIRUT/GENEVA: Unemployment among Palestinians continues to be a crippling problem in the Occupied Territories but is still significantly lower than the rate among refugees in Lebanon,...
Barack Obama urges Mid-East leaders to take opportunity
2 September 2010
BBC - US President Barack Obama has urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders not to let the chance of a permanent peace deal "slip away".
"This moment of opportunity may not...
Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad signals make or break for two-state solution
31 August 2010
Guardian - The Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, warned today that a "moment of reckoning" was approaching as Israel and the Palestinian Authority prepare to embark this week on...
Gaza hospital chief warns fuel crisis imperiling lives
30 August 2010
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The director of Gaza City's Dar Ash-Shifa Hospital warned Monday that dozens of patients in the hospital's care could die as a result of a...
Gov't won't increase electricity to Gaza
27 August 2010
Jerusalem Post - Vice premier Shalom refuses Blair's request to increase output.
Israel has balked at a request to boost the amount of electricity it supplies to the Gaza Strip...
Gaza official says power crisis has worsened
24 August 2010
(Ma'an) -- A Gaza official said Monday that despite media reports to the contrary, the electricity crisis in Gaza has worsened.
Kin'an Obed, vice president of the Energy Authority in...
Almost 95 percent of the water pumped in the Gaza Strip is polluted and unfit for drinking
24 August 2010
(Reliefweb) Almost 95 percent of the water pumped in the Gaza Strip is polluted and unfit for drinking. This warning was recently issued by the UN Environment Programme, the...
Missed opportunities for a peaceful Middle East
24 August 2010
(The Guardian) Ron Prosor's defence of Israel's continued blockade of Gaza (Before we talk to Hamas, August 20) is deeply flawed. Based on research published by The Lancet-Palestinian Health...
Palestinians: No talks if settlement freeze ends
23 August 2010
AP -RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinian leader has warned President Barack Obama that he will pull out of upcoming peace talks if Israel ends a slowdown on West...
UN urges Israel to loosen Gaza restrictions
20 August 2010
BBC - A UN report says the Israeli military has increasingly restricted Palestinian access to farmland in the Gaza Strip and fishing zones along its shore.
The Office for Co-ordination...
Quantities fall slightly at Gaza crossing
18 August 2010
Maan News - Israeli authorities opened one crossing into Gaza Wednesday for the limited transfer of aid and commercial goods.
Israeli officials told told Radio Israel the week earlier that...
Gaza schools, clinics face closure due to UN budget crisis
17 August 2010
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories - The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Monday that it is running an 84-million-dollar deficit that could soon force it to shut schools...
The girl who became the only fisherwoman in Gaza
16 August 2010
The Independent - With an invalid father and a family to feed behind the blockade, 16-year-old Madeleine Kulab has learnt to brave dangerous waters. Catrina Stewart reports
As the waves...
