• Website: www.map-uk.org
  • Describes itself as "a British charity dedicated to the health and humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people. MAP was established in 1984 in the aftermath of the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon and today it operates in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (the West Bank and Gaza Strip) and Lebanon delivering basic health and medical care to Palestinian refugees."
  • Claims to be "non-political and non-partisan."
  • Budget: 2.1 million (2003), 39.2% from the EU. Other funders include the British government's Department for International Development (DfID), the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO), EuropeAid and the Linbury Trust.
  • MAP works with partner organizations including the anti-Israel Ard et-Aftal and Ard el-Insan as well as the highly politicized Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees.
  • MAP's ideological agenda demonstrated by its selective historical background to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the amoral equivalence Palestinian terrorists and their Israeli victims, and advocacy against Israeli settlements.
  • Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), funded by the government of Canada, the British government (DFID), and the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO), joins political campaign exploiting moral language by blaming Israeli "closure" for "humanitarian crisis"; advertisement ignores rocket attacks. To view the advertisement (published in The Times - UK, January 25, 2008), click here.
  • For NGO Monitor's report including Medical Aid for Palestinians, click here