What Remains in Gaza When Normal Life is Gone
Yazdan El Amawi is the director of Anera’s Gaza office I have spent my entire life in Gaza, yet today I hardly recognize it. Over the last 20  months, and especially these past three, the familiar contours of home have been reduced to piles of concrete and rebar, with our sense of who we are…
Read MoreWhy the New Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Aid Model Fails Everyone
Two days ago, the newly formed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) – a U.S. and Israeli-backed entity with funding from undisclosed sources – began distributing a small amount of aid in southern Gaza. Israeli officials have indicated the GHF will now be the sole mechanism for delivering desperately needed food assistance into the territory. Israeli and…
Read MoreMenstrual Hygiene Day: Ending Period Poverty
On Menstrual Hygiene Day, May 28, and everyday, Anera is committed to addressing period poverty in Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan.
Read MoreWater is Life and Life is a Struggle in Gaza
In the crowded displacement camps of central Gaza, two stories – one of a young man recently returned from Europe and another of a determined grandmother – capture the fight for survival amid one of the worst humanitarian crises in the region’s history. For both, life now revolves around one basic need: water. From Sweden’s…
Read MoreCelebrating Mother’s Day
Most countries in the Arab world celebrate Mother’s Day on March 21. In the U.S., Mother’s Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May. Mother’s Day 2025 This Mother’s Day, join Anera in celebrating the immensurable strength and resilience of mothers in Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan. As financial crises and violence plague the region,…
Read MoreEarth Day Under Siege and the Fight to Keep Gaza Growing
“This Earth Day, my thoughts are with Gaza: its land, its farmers, and the small signs of life that still push up from the soil.”
Read MoreGaza Culture Will Not Be Erased
If I must die,you must liveto tell my storyto sell my thingsto buy a piece of clothand some strings,(make it white with a long tail)so that a child, somewhere in Gazawhile looking heaven in the eyeawaiting his dad who left in a blaze—and bid no one farewellnot even to his fleshnot even to himself—sees the…
Read MoreGaza’s Survival Depends on Our Steadfastness
None of us wanted to believe this could happen again. After nearly two months of a fragile ceasefire, mass destruction and loss of life have returned to Gaza. It may feel familiar, but each new wave of violence is worse than the last — compounding the devastation and deepening the challenges. While much remains uncertain,…
Read MoreHumanity in a Place of Our Own
Reflections from Gaza As a ceasefire tenuously holds, we can begin to ask if the longest and most brutal war Gaza has ever experienced is truly over. We can begin to take stock of what the people of Gaza have survived and suffered. And we can begin to build a new reality: one defined by…
Read MoreHow Does the Hold on USAID Funding Affect Anera’s Work?
On January 24, the White House issued an executive order immediately halting for 90 days all existing programming funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). U.S. organizations delivering humanitarian relief and development programs around the world have been issued stop-work orders, endangering lives and pausing initiatives that make education, water and sanitation,…
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