MAP News provides latest round the clock updates of all major stories that impact on the lives of Palestinians across the Middle East. Will staff on the ground in offices in Beirut, Ramallah, Gaza and London we are able to provide expert analysis and comment on events.

PA: Peace talks off until East Jerusalem housing shelved

11 March 2010
PA says indirect negotiations with Israel on hold over plans for 1,600 Jewish homes in E. Jerusalem. Palestinians will not begin indirect talks with Israel unless the Israeli...

World Bank report – Checkpoints & Barriers

11 March 2010
An important dimension of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and one that has been extensively documented, concerns Israel's control over the movement of Palestinian people, goods, and resources. Since 1967, control...

MAP Delegation Attend Opening of Gaza Neonatal Unit

11 March 2010
MAP's delegation included Professor Graham Watt (Chair of MAP Program Advisory Panel), Andrea Becker (MAP Head of Advocacy), Fikr Shaltoot (MAP Gaza Programme Coordinator), Saadi Abu Awwad (MAP Project...

Israel allows UN bomb squad into Gaza

10 March 2010
AP-JERUSALEM - Israel has allowed a U.N. bomb disposal unit into the Gaza Strip to defuse unexploded munitions left over from last year's fighting. The Israeli military says the sappers...

EU must take action over siege

10 March 2010
(CAABU) British parliamentary delegation returns from Gaza: A British parliamentary delegation has returned from a three day fact finding mission to the Gaza Strip and called for the European Union...

US Blasts Israeli Settlement 'Bombshell'

10 March 2010
Sky News - America has condemned Israel for announcing 1,600 new settlement homes on occupied land in the middle of a US vice presidential visit. Joe Biden walks in the...

Israel allows UN chief Ban, EU's Ashton to enter Gaza

9 March 2010
AFP - Israel said on Monday that it has authorised a visit to the Gaza Strip by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton...

EU's Ashton wants to visit Gaza amid push for peace talks

9 March 2010
CORDOBA, Spain (AFP) - EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said Saturday she hopes to get into the Palestinian Gaza Strip during a Middle East trip this month, as...

Assessment of ophthalmic care services in Gaza

8 March 2010
Forward Thinking - A team of health care professionals, lead by Forward Thinking's Director Mr. Oliver McTernan, and Dr Bob Roberts visited the West Bank and Gaza between the...

Hariri: Lebanon in Charge of Palestinians Security, Those Who Want to Break the Law Will Be Held Responsible

8 March 2010
(Naharnet)PM Saad Hariri on Saturday stressed that Lebanon is the side in charge of Palestinian refugee camps security, revealing his intent to call in the leaders of Palestinian organizations...

PA sends medicine to Gaza

8 March 2010
Ma'an - The Palestinian Authority (PA) Health Ministry in Ramallah successfully arranged a delivery of badly-needed medicine to the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, a Thursday report said. The International Committee of...

Israel to build more settler homes

8 March 2010
Al Jazeera - Israel has given the green light for the building of 112 new homes in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank despite a partial moratorium...

UN Official: It's Existence not Life for Palestinians in Gaza

5 March 2010
(WAFA)- UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes said late on Tuesday that he had seen for the people of Gaza is an existence not a life 'It's good to...

Baroness Ashton should visit Gaza

4 March 2010
Baroness Ashton to visit region in mid March. The EU's foreign ministers and its High Representative for foreign affairs Baroness Ashton must insist on their right to visit Gaza, say...

UN Humanitarian Chief Calls for Gaza Crossings to Re-Open

3 March 2010
OCHA - United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes arrived in Gaza today, as part of his four-day visit to Israel and the occupied...

Netanyahu: Israel will never cede Jordan Valley

3 March 2010
Haaretz - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel would never agree to withdraw from the Jordan Valley under any peace agreement signed with the Palestinians. Netanyahu told the...

Israel Police arrest children in East Jerusalem

2 March 2010
B'Tselem-In recent months there have been many cases in which minors aged 12-15 from Silwan, in East Jerusalem, were arrested in the middle of the night by police officers...

Filming in the West Bank

2 March 2010
In early 2007, B'Tselem launched a camera distribution project in which it supplies video cameras to Palestinians living in areas in the Occupied Territories where confrontations commonly occur. The...

Under blockade, coastal Gaza now a fish importer

2 March 2010
GAZA CITY, AP- Under a sea blockade, the coastal Gaza Strip has now become a seafood importer. Its desperate fishermen - cut off from plentiful fishing grounds by Israeli...

Israeli forces storm Al-Aqsa compound

1 March 2010
Ma'an - Seven Palestinians were detained as clashes erupted on Sunday with Israeli forces at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, after storming the site with discord reported throughout the Old...