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West Bank health system under strain amid COVID-19 surge

A worrying surge in COVID-19 cases is once again placing immense pressures on Palestinian health services in the West Bank.

17,000 people demand UK action to ensure equitable vaccines access for Palestinians

MAP has delivered a petition from 17,059 of our supporters to UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, calling on the UK to urgently press Israel to uphold its duty to ensure rapid, equitable and comprehensive access to COVID-19 vaccines for the Palestinian people.

Joint letter to the Foreign Secretary: Equitable access to vaccines in Palestine

MAP has signed a joint letter to the Foreign Secretary calling for free and equitable access and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Equal access to COVID-19 vaccines: Who is responsible in the occupied Palestinian territory?

MAP has released a position paper calling for rapid, comprehensive and equitable access to vaccines in the occupied Palestinian territory.

MAP joins international call on Israel to ensure vaccine access for Palestinians

MAP has joined a coalition of 21 health and human rights organisations to urge Israel to fulfil its international legal duties as an occupying power by ensuring that Palestinians can access quality vaccines against coronavirus.

A New Year’s message from MAP President, Baroness Morris of Bolton

It has been an incredibly tough year for the Palestinian people.

A Christmas message from Aimee Shalan, MAP’s Chief Executive

Tragically this year has seen the humanitarian crises Palestinians are facing deepen across the region. As a result, we are responding to simultaneous emergencies in all our areas of operation: in Gaza, the West Bank and the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon.

COVID-19 emergency update: MAP calls on UK to help Gaza breathe as oxygen supplies dwindle

Our team in Gaza are warning of very urgent shortages to essential materials including oxygen supply for patients, and a growing crisis in child malnutrition.

MAP brings essential COVID-19 training to health workers battling the pandemic in Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon

MAP held a multidisciplinary COVID-19 training for Palestinian health workers with the support of high-profile specialists from the UK.

Treating gunshot injuries in Gaza amid the pandemic

Mohammed Aghaalkurdi, MAP’s Limb Reconstruction Project Assistant, describes his work supporting patients with complex limb injuries in Gaza.

Experts warn of Gaza’s imminent health system collapse as COVID-19 continues to spread

Health experts in Gaza have warned that the local health care system is days away from being overwhelmed, as COVID-19 continue to rapidly spread.

MAP supports essential respirator training for Palestinian health workers battling COVID-19

Training doctors and nurses to use Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) respirators in Palestine.

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