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The Home We Built but Never Lived In

Jun 15, 2026

Before the war in Gaza, the paintings waited for a home. They are still stacked quietly in a corner of my parents’ house, wrapped in plastic, untouched by dust or sunlight. I bought them during my engagement, imagining the walls they would hang on in the apartment my husband and I spent months preparing together….

Pregnant in a War Zone: My Journey of Love, Fear, and Survival

by Tahani Shehada

Dec 10, 2024

We are pleased to welcome Tahani as Anera’s new communications officer in Gaza. She wrote this piece last month, prior to joining Anera, and has since given birth to a healthy baby boy. I am nine months pregnant, in Gaza, under the relentless strain of Israeli warfare. Every morning, I rise with the weight of…

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