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How Your Donation Helps Refugees in the Middle East

by Anera

Mar 26, 2024

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When you donate to Anera, you provide refugees and neglected communities in the Middle East with invaluable resources.

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World Water Day and Gaza

Mar 22, 2024

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Bringing together this year’s theme “Water for Peace,” indigenous poetry and Gaza.

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World Water Day

by Anera

Mar 22, 2024

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No one should be left behind when it comes to water. This year for World Water Day Anera is highlighting the situation in Gaza and poetry from Indigenous activists.

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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Infrastructure Under Attack in Gaza

by Anera

Mar 21, 2024

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Total degradation of WASH infrastructure is creating fatal and preventable conditions across Gaza On October 9th, Israel’s defense minister ordered a total siege on electricity, water, and fuel sent to Gaza from Israel. These essential resources are key to the maintenance of water safety systems that allow Gazans to practice effective hygiene, drink safe water,…

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Son of Mousa Shawwa succumbed to his wounds

by Anera

Mar 19, 2024

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Karim, son of our staff member who was killed by an Israeli airstrike, succumbed to his wounds. is just one of 13,450 children killed in the past five months of the war on Gaza.

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Health Systems Under Attack in Gaza

by Anera

Mar 11, 2024

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“The unrelenting war in Gaza hasn’t spared hospitals, their staff, or the people sheltering there.” – WHO Gaza, with a population of 2.3 million Palestinians, has suffered the consequences of the attack on its health systems over the last five months. Since October 8th, Israeli forces have systematically degraded Gaza’s health infrastructure, limiting access to…

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Remembering Mousa Shawwa

by Anera

Mar 8, 2024

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The moment we have feared has come. We’ve lost one of our dear colleagues in Gaza. With heavy hearts, Anera announces the death of our colleague Mousa Shawwa on March 8, 2024, in Al Zawayda, Deir Al Balah. Mousa was killed wearing his Anera vest after having just returned from working in Rafah. His wife…

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International Women’s Day

by Anera

Mar 8, 2024

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On this International Women’s Day 2024, we share the story of women who benefit from our rooftop garden projects in Lebanon. This is just one of our many projects built to empower women.

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Displaced and Dispossessed in Lebanon

Mar 7, 2024

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In southern Lebanon, a war is raging with Israel, which is tearing apart the fabric of society, disrupting the already fragile economy and eradicating any sense of security. Amid the rubble, I had the opportunity to sit down with Ali Hassan, a father of two, whose life has been upended by the violence engulfing his…

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Humanitarian Agencies Issue a Fervent Plea for the Cessation of Hostilities in Southern Lebanon

by Anera

Mar 6, 2024

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The Lebanon Humanitarian INGO Forum, made up of 66 international non-governmental organizations, expresses profound concern over the escalation of hostilities in Lebanon, particularly in the South, that has now entered its sixth month. So far, a shocking 91,288 civilians have been displaced – 37 % of whom are children and 33 % of whom are…

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