UNESCO gives Palestinians full membership
31 October 2011
(Daily Star) The United Nations' cultural agency decided on Monday to give the Palestinians full membership of the body, a vote that will boost their bid for recognition as...
Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance Second Conference (LPHA)
20 October 2011
(Lancet) "Health of Palestinians inside and outside the Occupied Palestinian Territory"
The Center for Research on Population and Health of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of...
Israel Plans to Expel Bedouin Communities from Area C, West Bank
18 October 2011
(B'Tselem)The Civil Administration (CA) is planning to expel the Bedouin communities living in Area C in the West Bank, transferring some 27,000 persons from their homes. In the first...
URGENT APPEAL - Release of Palestinian child detainees
18 October 2011
(Defence for Children International) On 11 October 2011, Israel and Hamas announced a deal to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the freeing of Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit. Under...
The wretched scandal of Gaza
11 October 2011
Telegraph - Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set in the citrus groves of...
Gaza represents the ultimate failure of politics
11 October 2011
(Guardian) David Miliband - My visit to Gaza with Save the Children gave me a sense of life beyond the statistics. The international community must do more
Government is all...
Response to Palmer Report
21 September 2011
To: The Representatives of the Middle East Quartet (UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) and...
Amnesty Statement on Gaza Blockade
8 September 2011
Gaza blockade must be lifted following UN panel finding on flotilla raid
Amnesty International today welcomed a UN panel's finding that the Israeli military used excessive force in the interception...
Gaza's girl surfer battles pollution and prejudice
30 August 2011
(The Guardian) Twelve-year-old Sabah Abu Ghanim drags her board through the water as the sinking sun glints on the eastern Mediterranean. The wind has got up a little, and...
More killed in attacks on Gaza
25 August 2011
(PCHR) In the early morning of Thursday, 25 August 2011, two Palestinian civilians were killed and 25 others, including 11 children and 7 women, were wounded as Israeli warplanes...
Aid alone won't help the desperate Palestinians
25 August 2011
The Guardian - A UN reports links all of the Palestinian economy's dire problems to the Israeli occupation and associated constraints. Aid from the EU and others is merely...
Gaza pays the price ... again
24 August 2011
(Al Jazeera) The ongoing deadly Israeli air strikes on Gaza, and the exchange of home-made rockets fired from Gaza, has drawn mixed reactions from Palestinians in the besieged Gaza.
First,...
Samira Hassassian
23 August 2011
MAP supporters will be saddened to hear of the death of our Patron, Samira Hassassian.
Born in Beit -Jala, Palestine, Samira taught for 22 years at Bethlehem University in the...
Update from MAP's Gaza Team
22 August 2011
(MAP Gaza Team) Israeli operations against Gaza started on Thursday.
ยท -On the same day at midnight airstrikes hit Gaza. A 13 years old boy was a victim of an...
Crisis in Gaza
22 August 2011
(MAP) Gaza has suffered airstrikes and shelling by Israel for last three days
14 are reported dead including children and medical staff, at least 40 are injured
Hospitals are calling for...
Renewed shelling kills 1 near Gaza City
19 August 2011
(Maan News) Israeli shelling killed one person in the eastern part of Gaza City on Friday afternoon, medics said, the ninth Palestinian to die following an attack in southern...
CHILDREN KILLED AS ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES POUND GAZA
19 August 2011
MAP IS CALLING FOR EMERGENCY SURGICAL KITS IN RESPONSE TO SEVERE SHORTAGES
In the past 24 hours Israel has carried out at least 12 airstrikes across Gaza. Gaza hospitals are...
Referrals from Gaza - July Update
17 August 2011
(WHO) A 33-year-old male heart disease patient tragically died after his two requests to cross Erez checkpoint to access the hospital to which he was referred by the Palestinian...
Medics: Gaza teenager shot dead
17 August 2011
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager near the central Gaza Strip city of Deir Al-Balah late Tuesday, medical officials reported.
Medics said the Palestinian, who was not identified, suffered...
Medics: 1 killed, 7 injured as Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza
16 August 2011
Ma'an - One man was killed and seven others injured as Israeli warplanes struck targets in the central and southern Gaza Strip early Tuesday, Palestinian medical sources and the...
