#West Bank

Improving breast cancer care in Palestine: MAP’s latest medical delegation

MAP is supporting the visit of a multidisciplinary team of breast cancer specialists from the UK to the West Bank who are working to improve breast cancer care for Palestinian women.

"Family medicine makes me a different doctor"

Dr Tasneem Yahya, a doctor from the West Bank, describes the impact the MAP-supported family medicine programme is having on her work.

MAP joins 70 NGOs to call for an end to occupation

A new report from The Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA), a coalition of more than 70 NGOs working in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), documents the grim reality of life under occupation.

US withdrawal of UNRWA funding endangers the lives of Palestinian refugees

The US Government announced on Tuesday that it has halved its planned funding to the UN agency responsible for humanitarian support to Palestinian refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

Further Palestinians shot dead due to apparent excessive use of lethal force

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) remains deeply concerned by the ongoing loss of life and injuries caused by the Israeli security forces in the oPt.

West Bank to Scotland: caring for cancer patients

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) caught up with four Palestinian nurses from Bethlehem University who spent two weeks in Scotland learning about advances in caring for cancer patients.

Aida Camp: ‘No escape’ from Israel’s indiscriminate use of tear gas

New research released this month raises serious concerns about the health effects of “unprecedented” exposure to tear gas in Palestinian communities in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Thank you to everyone who donated to keep the MAP mobile health clinic on the road!

The Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) mobile clinic is a vital lifeline for Palestinians in the Jordan Valley. Thank you to all those who contributed to the appeal. We have now reached the target to purchase a replacement vehicle and can keep this crucial service on the road.

“Sometimes patients die”: Barriers facing Palestinian ambulances entering East Jerusalem

Last month MAP met with staff from the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) Emergency Medical Centre in Jerusalem to discuss barriers to ambulance access and how, for Palestinian patients, the process of entering East Jerusalem is fraught with obstacles.

Parliamentarians witness barriers to health caused by prolonged occupation

This month MAP’s CEO, Aimee Shalan, was in the West Bank with Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East’s (LFPME) delegation of Emily Thornberry MP, Fabian Hamilton MP and Andrew Slaughter MP, witnessing the barriers to health and dignity caused by life under prolonged occupation.

Shadow Foreign Secretary visits MAP-supported cancer clinic in the West Bank

This week Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) was pleased to welcome our local MP (Islington South) and the Shadow Foreign Secretary, Emily Thornberry, to the MAP-supported Dunya Women’s Cancer Centre in Ramallah.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the West Bank

In the West Bank, MAP’s partner, the Dunya Women’s Cancer Centre, have been holding a variety of events as part of their Breast Cancer Awareness Month campaign.

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