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Medical Aid for Palestinians at SNP Conference 2021

MAP’s West Bank Director, Aisha Mansour, will be speaking at an SNP Annual Conference virtual fringe event on Sunday 28 November. Please join us.

MAP calls on UK Government to reverse aid cuts to Palestinian healthcare

MAP is deeply concerned by the UK Government’s decision to cut its aid funding to Palestinian health and education workers.

Israeli Government’s attacks on six Palestinian civil society groups must be resisted

16 UK-based charities working to support the rights and welfare of the Palestinian people condemn the Israeli Government’s shocking decision to declare six Palestinian civil society groups as ‘terrorist organisations’.

Video: What is the one thing Palestinians would like to say to UK politicians?

We asked Palestinians a question: What is the one thing you would like to say to politicians in the UK? This is what they told us.

MAP launches poster campaign to honour healthcare heroes in Palestine

On World Humanitarian Day, MAP has begun a poster campaign to honour the Palestinian healthcare heroes who are going to extraordinary lengths to help people across the occupied Palestinian territory amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

جمعية العون الطبي للفلسطينيين تطلق حملة ملصقات تقديراً لأبطال الرعاية الصحية في فلسطين

Movement restrictions and isolation for East Jerusalem health workers amid the pandemic

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic across the occupied Palestinian territory, lockdown restrictions and Israel’s permit system have caused Palestinian health workers to feel isolated and anxious. We hear from two healthcare workers from Hebron whose mental health and wellbeing have been affected by restrictions on freedom of movement

“We can rebuild houses, but we can’t get back memories of our loved ones”

In the second of a two-part blog series, Haitham Saqqa, MAP’s Programme Assistant in Gaza, shares his account of the Israeli military offensive in Gaza in May and its impact on people with disabilities.

Responding to the pandemic at its peak: Insights from a lab technician in Hebron

We hear from a laboratory technician who works in a hospital in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, about the impact responding to the pandemic has had on his wellbeing and that of his family.

“After each attack, we hoped life would get better”

Two months on from Israel’s latest military offensive on Gaza, Haitham Saqqa, MAP’s Programme Assistant in Gaza, reflects on living under occupation, blockade and frequent attacks.

COVID-19 Delta variant outbreak threatens to deepen wellbeing crisis among exhausted Palestinian health workers

The arrival of the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 in the occupied Palestinian territory threatens to worsen the crisis in the fragmented and unprepared Palestinian health system, and deepen a burgeoning mental health and wellbeing crisis among a depleted Palestinian healthcare workforce.

“I was helpless”: Health workers speak of unpreparedness and uncertainty during Gaza’s COVID-19 response

Half a century of military occupation and 14 years of illegal closure and blockade had pushed Gaza’s health system close to collapse long before the arrival of COVID-19. Israel’s 11-day military offensive in May has compounded these challenges. We hear from healthcare workers who have been on the frontline responding to the pandemic, while also working to maintain other essential health services.

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