Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is a British charity that offers medical services in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon, and advocates for Palestinians' rights to health and dignity. It is in special consultative status with ECOSOC since 2002.
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) works in partnership with Palestinian communities to uphold their rights to health and dignity. We do this by developing effective, sustainable and locally-led healthcare services, providing medical aid during emergencies, and campaigning to break down the barriers to Palestinian health and healthcare today and for the future.
MAP History
Between 16 and 18 September 1982, Lebanese Phalangist militants entered the Beirut refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila, and killed and injured hundreds of unarmed Palestinian and other civilians inside. The camp’s residents were defenceless.
The Israeli army, who had invaded Lebanon earlier that year and had surrounded the camp, had full knowledge of what was taking place inside, yet they never intervened. Instead, they illuminated the camp throughout the night by flares launched into the sky from helicopters and mortars.
Working in a hospital inside the camp at the time was a young orthopaedic surgeon from London, Dr Swee Chai Ang. Refusing to leave the hospital, Dr Ang worked tirelessly to save the injured and protect her patients during the massacre.
On her return to London, Dr Ang joined with fellow medical professionals and humanitarians to establish Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), in order to send doctors and nurses to work in the Palestinian refugee camps and provide frontline care.
MAP today
Since then, MAP has been working with Palestinian communities, to deliver locally-led health and medical care to those worst affected by conflict, occupation and displacement.
Today we have offices in the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem, Lebanon and London. With our extensive local knowledge and experience, we work closely with communities, hospitals, clinics and healthcare providers to coordinate care and medical aid even where there are severe restrictions on access.
MAP provides immediate medical aid to those in need at times of crisis, while also developing local capacity and skills to ensure the long-term development of the Palestinian healthcare system.
We are also committed to speaking out against injustices that prevent Palestinians from fully enjoying their rights to health and dignity, and campaign to ensure the voices of Palestinians impacted by occupation, displacement and conflict are heard at the highest levels.
Mutual aid for Palestine and Gaza: https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donation-details/484 
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Above all else, it's the bait-and-switch aspect of it that bothers me.
I have always heard that "from the river to the sea" does not mean "exterminate all Israelis down to the last individual," that these were just Zionist lies, and the project is not one of racial annihilation. I do think this still holds true in general. My own org doesn't support genocide. None of our partner orgs support genocide. Hamas does not support genocide. My gripe isn't with any of these groups. They are doing good work and I'm happy to be part of it (well, I can't really claim to be part of Hamas' work, since there's no realistic way for someone in my position to materially support them).
My gripe is with the stuff I've seen on Hexbear specifically. People here have always told me the same thing I heard elsewhere. "We want a liberated Palestine, that means abolition of the state of Israel, it doesn't mean killing all Israelis." Now suddenly, there are people on this site giving you shit for not being on board with "Actually, kill literally all Israelis."
My question is, why are they surprised? What did they expect? The whole point of a bait-and-switch is that the target takes the bait. The point is to make them think they're only getting a juicy worm. When they bite down only to find a hook in their jaw, of course they're going to thrash against it.
It's not that sudden. First, we acknowledged that Hamas killing civilians was an inevitable consequence of the brutal oppression and occupation. Then we called out that the music festival was right next to the Palestinian border, next to the world's largest concentration camp. I was with hexbear up until that point (I know hexbear is not a monolith, you know what I mean).
Then, there was a post about how all Israeli civilians were settlers and therefore none of them were "truly" innocent. And now we're at the point where you can say Israeli children deserve death without immediately getting banned. The poster who originally said this had the comment deleted as well as the one where they doubled down (they had the gall to say "actually, Israeli isn't a race"), but they're not banned yet from what I can tell.
I think it's extremism for the sake of extremism rather than any political ideology. "The harder the media tells us to condemn Hamas, the more we will say that what Hamas did was good and they should do more of it." And the nuance of it all is quickly going completely out the window. I know most of hexbear knows this is wrong, but we need to get on top of this right now.
Yep. Its sad seeing these comments. White Americans are settlers too. Almost the entire continent of Americas would be considered settlers. I don't wish to see billions of people killed due to historical reasons. I say that as someone who is not from a settler colonial country.
And now, Israeli death count hasn't changed much since the initial attack. Meanwhile Palestinian death count is nearly double.
If you are actively doing colonialism like settlers in the west bank, then yes you absolutely deserve to be killed.