Gaza and West Bank Response Log | May 2025
by Anera
In this log, Anera provides updates on unfolding war in Palestine and our response. Please stay tuned here for the latest information.
May 6, 2025
Yesterday, our World Food Programme-supported food assistance continued distributing remaining food stuffs in the Qarara area in Mawasi, Khan Younis. This was the second day of distributing yeast, salt and cooking oil to 1,185 families. These parcels lack flour or any other grain. However, the ingredients are still valuable as families can use them to prepare any remaining flour that they have.
”This is a very valuable parcel in such difficult times,” one recipient told us. “Oh my God, cooking oil — and five kilos of it [approximately five liters]. I am so happy,” another said. Others told us that the yeast is good but they need flour. Our program teams continue to communicate to recipients that these are the only remaining food items we have left as the total siege has endured now for 66 days.
Our health clinics continue to operate. Over the last three days, our Americares-supported mobile clinic has provided critical health and nutrition services to displaced families with very limited access to healthcare, seeing 439 people, including maternal and pediatric health services. We diagnosed one child with severe acute malnutrition, 15 children with moderate acute malnutrition and 46 women with malnutrition. These cases of malnutrition reflect an alarming rise in malnutrition and represent a clear sign that starvation has already taken hold among displaced families. We distributed 2,964 feeding and therapeutic nutritional items.
May 5, 2025
We continue work on our Gaza City field primary healthcare center to prepare the space to open to patients.
May 4, 2025
Today, our field primary healthcare center in Khan Younis operated wound management, urology, orthopedic, nutritional, physiotherapy, and laser therapy clinics, seeing 258 patients. Yesterday, we hosted wound management, internal medicine, dermatology, deworming, noncommunicable disease, and physiotherapy visits to patients in their places of shelter, seeing 510 patients.
Also today, our World Food Programme-supported food distribution project continued in Qarara area of Mawasi, Khan Younis. We provided yeast, cooking oil and salt to 830 families. The current market price in Gaza of each parcel of these basic food items is $278 — an astronomical sum. The items in these food assistance parcels are nutritionally unbalanced and deeply inadequate, but we are distributing all remaining ingredients to provide families with whatever calories are left.
May 3, 2025
No activities reported.
May 2, 2025
No activities reported.
May 1, 2025
Through our mental health and psychosocial support program supported by the READ Foundation, we hosted a session on resilience for parents with 30 mothers participating. The women were able to speak about the difficult situations they are facing, feelings of powerlessness, helplessness and desperation. Sharing such feelings and experiences can help the participants learn from each others and manage the stress.
In the last two days, 853 patients were served through our field primary healthcare center in Khan Younis. Today, we hosted wound management; ear, nose and throat; pediatric; orthopedic; urology; and physiotherapy (including home visit) clinics, seeing 422 patients. And yesterday (April 30), we hosted wound management; general surgery; gynecology; dermatology; and physiotherapy (including home visit) clinics, serving 432 patients. And our work on the new Gaza City healthcare center is nearing completion. Today we added some final touches — we’re almost ready to open our doors!
And over the past two days, the Anera mobile clinic has continued to provide essential health and nutrition services — including maternal healthcare, pediatric care and malnutrition assessments and treatment — to displaced families, serving a total of 369 individuals. We diagnosed five children with moderate acute malnutrition, and 31 women with acute malnutrition. We distributed 4,087 nutritional items.
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