Anera Opens a New Primary Healthcare Center in Gaza City
May 12, 2025
Amid the devastation of war in Gaza City, Anera has opened a brand new health clinic to provide lifesaving care to a population in crisis. Built by our Gaza team with the help of local builders, this new facility is modeled on our successful clinics in Khan Younis and Deir Al Balah. With health facilities…
Read MoreCelebrating Mother’s Day
May 7, 2025
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 MoreIsrael’s New INGO Registration Measures Are a Grave Threat to Humanitarian Operations and International Law – 55 Organisations Say
May 6, 2025
The undersigned 55 organisations operating in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) call for urgent action from the international community against new Israeli registration rules for international NGOs. Based on vague, broad, politicised, and open-ended criteria, these rules appear designed to assert control over independent humanitarian, development and peacebuilding operations, silence advocacy grounded in…
Read MoreSupporting International Workers’ Day
Apr 30, 2025
Since the late 19th century International Workers’ Day, or May Day, is celebrated annually on May 1 to honor the working classes and the labor movement. It is widely observed in many nations around the world, including as a public holiday in Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine, to commemorate the continued efforts of workers to secure…
Read MoreAn Escalating Crisis in the West Bank
Apr 24, 2025
How contributions to Anera’s emergency fund can directly impact vulnerable families. With the horrors unfolding in Gaza and political upheaval in the U.S., it can be easy to overlook the escalating crisis in the West Bank. But we cannot and should not look away. Since early March 2023, the West Bank has experienced intense military…
Read MoreThe Silent Crisis
Apr 23, 2025
Mental Health and Economic Hardship in Lebanon The aftermath of the war in Lebanon and the continued Israeli strikes, compounded by years of political instability and economic collapse, has taken a devastating toll on its people, particularly its youth. The effects go far beyond financial struggles — mental health has emerged as an urgent issue,…
Read MoreEarth Day 2025
Apr 22, 2025
In honor of Earth Day this year, we’re sharing reflections from Anera’s Naser Qadous on the ecological devastation in Gaza — and the urgent need to fight for its protection.
Read MoreEarth Day Under Siege and the Fight to Keep Gaza Growing
by Naser Qadous
Apr 22, 2025
“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 MoreHumanitarian Access Snapshot (Jan. 19 – Apr. 15) for Gaza and the West Bank
Apr 17, 2025
Humanitarian conditions in Gaza and the West Bank sharply worsened between January and April 2025, with aid blockades, mass displacement, and attacks on civilians and humanitarian workers severely hindering relief efforts.
Read MoreGaza Culture Will Not Be Erased
Apr 15, 2025
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…
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