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The 2025 Levant Olive Oil Crisis

by Anera

Oct 30, 2025

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How Conflict and Climate Change Devastate Lebanon and Palestine Every autumn, olive trees set the rhythm of life across Lebanon and Palestine. Families gather under the silvery leaves, spreading nets and pressing olives into oil that sustains them through winter. The olive harvest is more than an agricultural season; it is an act of continuity,…

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Lebanon Activity Log | September 2025

by Anera

Sep 30, 2025

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This log offers a real-time day-by-day record of Anera’s humanitarian work in Lebanon. It captures the daily efforts of Anera’s staff as they deliver vital projects and programs to communities across the country.

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Gaza City is Being Destroyed As Civilians Face Expulsion

Sep 10, 2025

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Every day here is worse than the one before. Displacement camps are overcrowded and filthy. Heat makes the conditions unbearable. Kids are sick with rashes, diarrhea and other illnesses. People fight for water. Trucks can’t get through and families walk long distances just to fill a jerrycan. And now, entire residential blocks in Gaza City…

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Lebanon Activity Log | August 2025

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Aug 31, 2025

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This log offers a real-time day-by-day record of Anera’s humanitarian work in Lebanon. It captures the daily efforts of Anera’s staff as they deliver vital projects and programs to communities across the country.

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Lebanon Activity Log | July 2025

by Anera

Jul 31, 2025

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This log offers a real-time day-by-day record of Anera’s humanitarian work in Lebanon. It captures the daily efforts of Anera’s staff as they deliver vital projects and programs to communities across the country.

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Gaza Starvation Deepens

Jul 30, 2025

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Anera’s Gaza Director Yazdan El Amawi shares the latest on the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where starvation is rising and basic services are collapsing.

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When Famine Becomes Irreversible in Gaza

by Anera

Jul 29, 2025

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In Gaza, hunger has outgrown the language of need. It has become a brutal threshold that, once crossed, no amount of food or aid can reverse. 

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Lebanon Activity Log | June 2025

by Anera

Jun 30, 2025

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This log offers a real-time day-by-day record of Anera’s humanitarian work in Lebanon. It captures the daily efforts of Anera’s staff as they deliver vital projects and programs to communities across the country.

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In Loving Memory of Mahmoud Rassrass

by Anera

Jun 26, 2025

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Last week, Anera lost our colleague and friend, Mahmoud Rassrass. His death, alongside two of his beloved children, by an Israeli drone strike, has left a deep wound in all of us who had the honor to know him, work with him, or witness the hope he brought to others. Mahmoud Mohamad Rassrass was born…

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How Does the Israel-Iran War Affect Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank and Jordan?

by Anera

Jun 23, 2025

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As tensions between Israel and Iran escalate, the entire region is feeling the impact economically, socially, and psychologically as well as militarily. Though Lebanon, Gaza, and Jordan are not all active battlegrounds in this geopolitical confrontation, the fallout is undeniable. How Is Lebanon Affected by the Israel-Iran War? Lebanon had hoped for a modest economic…

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