Safe Delivery Programme (Gaza)

During the 2008/09 war on Gaza, there was no plan in place for women in Gaza to give birth safely. Many babies were born at home or en-route to hospital without a midwife and without the necessary sterile equipment. MAP is working alongside the UN to ensure that a plan is in place for the…

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philip rizk Gaza Siege

My four days of imprisonment are nothing compared to the months and years of siege on Gaza, which is nothing else than forced imprisonment. The Gaza Strip is a different form of concentration camp. No Palestinian- whether students, the sick, businessmen and women- can travel beyond its borders and Israel permits only a very very…

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Gaza 24/24 Preview

Gaza 24/24 will be produced entirely in the Gaza strip by 24 journalists who will gather in the territory to collaboratively produce 24 stories. The profiles will focus on the residents of Gaza and on the work being done to find resolution to the conflict. Pre-production is now in progress, production is scheduled for March…

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Chris Patten’s Gaza Visit

Former MAP President, Chris Patten, visited Gaza and spoke to the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent, describing Israel’s policy of blockading Gaza as a “terrible failure – immoral, illegal and ineffective”, which had “deliberately triggered an economic and social crisis which has many humanitarian consequences”. source

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Gaza assessed edit

This is an assessed news package for my Television Journalism MA. We were given rushes and two wires on a story about shells exploding on a beach in Gaza. We were then given an hour to write, edit and voice the package for the 10 o’clock news. Please be warned some of the images in…

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