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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So does this mean I was correct about your whole issue being conflation of 'civilian' and 'active participant in a settler colonial project'
Settlers care enough about themselves and their interests, I dont really need to help them there. I won't really cry a single tear.
unless they are children, which i will say for the 5th time or so have absolutely no political agency and therefore inherently innocent, despite how reactionary the system they may be a part of.
Yes. I think it's a gross oversimplification, especially the "active" part. You can make the argument that they have no right to live on that land, sure, but I am not comfortable jumping from that to "they aren't civilians" and "they deserve no mercy". Look at how many people live in the Great Satan and desperately want to move out but their conditions don't allow them to, do you think Israel is any different? Hell, there are a good amount of people living in Israel who are opposed to the occupation. And what, the children are innocent but killing their parents is fair game? Do the children lose their innocence on their 18th birthday?
Like I said in my second edit, I know you're not pro-genocide, my issue is with this extremely simple rhetoric becoming more and more normal. There should be more nuance to declaring an entire nation guilty and apparently okay to kill. I can't believe I have to point this out.
I didn't know that, apologies. I will make an edit to my comment and clarifying note on the bottom.
as well as reading the edit I acknowledge Im not going to say you are pro-Israel, you are definitely not. You are also not Anti-Hamas or anti-palestinian liberation.
Civilians implies an innocence the average settler is not. You can't be truly passive in settler colonialism. Its not what happens.
I can't really with this argument. Lots of nuance involved yeah maybe, but it doesn't change the truth of the matter, which is their participation in the regime. This is settler colonialism happening a few miles away, this isn't something waved away because they grow flowers, teach classes, or fight fires. Shooting may be the last resort, but the contradictions have sharpened to a point where conflict on every level is inevitable. I realize this sentiment is large on hexbear because many people themselves are american settlers (including myself), but I don't believe our posting exempts us from the blood that stains our food and clothes.
Then they aren't settlers, especially since many who are actively agitating against the regime. Same with active anti racists or antifascists being more exempt from blame.
Yes.
Romanovs? Nazis? The political power they projected for the socioeconomic system they stood for goes before the relations of parent and child, at least in my eyes.
Political power comes from the barrel of a gun, or something.
This subject isn't one that likes being discussed, the inherent violence of class conflict, but it is a reality we must face.
I think one need further elucidate who is settler? Is is west bank freak settlers? Is it sakai settler (i.e. majority citizens of israel)?
To me citizens of israel are not all settlers, as they have two generations to "wash sins of their parents" so to say. Some dude born in jerusalem may or may not be freak, but is not strictly speaking guilty of nakba. Now, should imaginary dude under the right of return move to new appartment? yes, but that doesn't mean he is an evil human.
Tbh i think sakai thesis is correct, but on the majority, not all people, and its application as a moral lense is wrong. Its about where this reactionary shit flows from
, not moral judgement on the behavior, thats on reader. People living on stolen land more likely will be right wing genocidal maniacs because it profits them so to get more land and be morally at peace, not that living on stolen land instantly===genocidal maniac.
Maybe, I don't have the stomach for more of such conversation.