Gaza and West Bank Response Log | August 2026

Anera continued delivering integrated humanitarian and livelihoods support across the West Bank and Gaza this week. Our activities remain focused on addressing urgent humanitarian needs in Gaza, while sustaining essential health, economic empowerment, agricultural, and community development interventions in both Gaza and the West Bank.

Gaza

Food assistance: We distributed 1,500 parcels of fresh produce across the Gaza City, Deir Al Balah, and Khan Younis governorates. Each basket weighed 13.5 kilograms to support a family of seven for about one week.

Through our Integrated Communities program, we distributed 17,128 hot meals to community shelters in Gaza City and Khan Younis.

Through our partnership with the World Food Programme, we distributed essential food items (44 kilograms per family, containing red lentils, rice, salt, cooking oil, hummus cans, bean cans, and tomato sauce) and sacks of flour (25 kilograms each) to 1,393 families in Mawasi Al-Qararah and Deir Al Balah.

Protection: Supported 159 people either individual psychosocial support sessions, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse awareness sessions, psychological first aid sessions, and referrals to specialized service providers.

Community help desk: Responded to 1,206 inquiries, mostly for help with cash assistance, data checks, food parcels, and registering with the World Food Programme platform.

Water, sanitation and hygiene: We distributed 739,682 gallons (2,800 cubic meters) of potable water to families in the Khan Younis, Deir Al Balah and Gaza City governorates. And through our Integrated Communities program, we distributed an additional 63,401 (240 cubic meters) of potable water to community shelters in Gaza City and Khan Younis governorates.

And we installed a reverse osmosis water filtration unit at the Ali Municipal Water Well in Gaza City.

We also conducted 10 health and hygiene awareness sessions focused on flea and bedbug control, reaching 188 participants.

Health: Anera’s three integrated healthcare clinics in Gaza City, Deir Al Balah, and Khan Younis continued to provide essential health services, responding to significant unmet medical needs across Gaza. Collectively, the three clinics provided 10,273 consultations to 6,663 patients. Our clinics services included nutritional, mental health and psychosocial, reproductive health, chronic disease management, pharmacy, and specialized medical care support. Our Khan Younis Integrated Clinic opened the week prior, on August 18, consolidating our existing health service sites in the area.

And through our Integrated Communities program, Anera also hosted nine health days — four in Khan Younis and five in Gaza City —providing primary healthcare services to 926 patients.

Through our Helping the Helpers program and in partnership with Juzoor, we held the another psychosocial support session for 90 journalists and medical professionals (the fourth cohort in the program). The sessions are designed to strengthen psychological resilience and psychosocial well-being among frontline professionals. We also provided the participants with dignity kits as an additional form of practical support.

Economic Empowerment: Through our Integrated Communities program, we engaged 60 women across community shelters in Gaza City and Khan Younis to participate in paid work preparing 17,954 nutritious, light meals for families in community shelters and children attending temporary learning spaces.

Education: Our educational activities, run in partnership with the Palestinian Early Childhood Education Program, at our temporary learning spaces in Deir Al Balah governorate, continued this week, with 761 children attending. We had 384 children in kindergarten classes, and 377 kids in primary school classes. We distributed light meals on three days and hosted recreational and psychosocial activities for children. And our Integrated Communities program engaged an additional 1,177 students in summer education activities.

West Bank

Health: Health programming in the West Bank continued to focus on women’s cancer screening, counseling services, and support for frontline professionals.

Anera continued to provide support to the Dunya Women’s Cancer Clinic’s early detection and diagnostic services.
This week the program provided the most clinical screenings and diagnostic services since it began. Services included clinical breast screening examinations, mammograms, ultrasound examinations and laboratory tests.

Our psychosocial support trainings continued across the West Bank, through the Helping the Helpers program, with six sessions reaching 112 media professionals and health workers.

Economic empowerment: We completed trainings on climate-resilient production of staple foods and climate-resilient livelihoods adaptations, with 218 families participating in total.

Anera Ventures added another nine small entrepreneurs to its loan program, bring the total number of participants to 60.

In Nablus governorate, we hosted a training covering psychosocial support, protection from sexual exploitation and abuse, and business skills topics for our WeCan program participants, strengthening their capacity to pursue sustainable livelihoods.

Anera continued delivering essential health, food, water, education and livelihood support across the West Bank and Gaza from August 15th to the 20th, reaching thousands of people affected by the ongoing crisis.

West Bank

Economic empowerment and livelihoods: Under the Anera Ventures Success Award Loan Program, 6 new applicants were approved for loans, bringing the program to 58 small and medium-sized businesses supported. Women account for 31% of participants.

Agriculture: In Tubas, Anera facilitated raining on climate-resilient production of staple foods and adaptation of livelihood
activities, with 150 farming families reached.

Health:

• At Dunya Women’s Cancer Clinic, 17 women received breast screenings, including ultrasounds and laboratory tests.
• Through virtual psychosocial counseling program, 63 frontline workers and service providers received individual counseling to support stress management and psychological resilience. Participants included psychologists, psychosocial therapists, civil defense personnel, nurses, case managers, journalists and other frontline professionals.

Gaza

Food assistance: Distributed 17,093 hot meals, 9,730 ready-to-eat food parcels, 4,865 25-kilo bags of flour, 1,500 vegetable parcels to community shelters in Khan Younis, Deir Al Balah and Gaza City.

Water deliveries: 784,591 gallons of potable water went to shelters across Khan Younis, Deir Al Balah and Gaza City.

Health

• Anera’s four health clinics facilities provided 7,416 health consultations during the reporting period.
• 9 community health days in Gaza City and Khan Younis provided primary healthcare to 747 patients.

Education: 1,177 students participated in Anera’s education summer program across the territory.

Women’s empowerment and psychosocial support

• 60 women in 10 groups participated in cash-for-work activities, producing and distributing 18,293 nutritious snacks to children in temporary learning spaces and families in community shelters.
• 195 people received safeguarding and psychosocial support services, including individual counseling, PSEA (protection from sexual exploitation and abuse) awareness, psychological first aid and referrals.
• Anera’s help desk responded to 1,214 inquiries, reflecting continued demand for information about assistance.

Solid waste and water infrastructure

• 72 cash-for-work laborers were deployed across nine camps, collecting and disposing of 49 tons of solid waste while carrying out shelter sterilization, sanitation and access-pathway improvements. They also backfilled 2 abandoned waste absorption pits.
• Assembly of 2 reverse osmosis units has been completed, with preparations underway for installation at municipal water wells in Khan Younis and Gaza City

Anera continued delivering essential health, food, water, education and livelihood support across the West Bank and Gaza from August 8th to the 13th, reaching thousands of people affected by the ongoing crisis.

West Bank

Economic empowerment and livelihoods: Under the Anera Ventures Success Award Loan Program, 12 new applicants were approved for loans, bringing the program to 52 small and medium-sized businesses supported, with a total portfolio of $239,500. Women account for 31% of participants.

Agriculture: In Tulkarem, climate-resilient agriculture training reached 97 farming families.

Health:

• At Dunya Women’s Cancer Clinic, 21 women received breast screenings, including ultrasounds and laboratory tests. One woman with suspicious findings received a core biopsy.
• Through virtual psychosocial counseling program, 62 frontline workers and service providers received individual counseling to support stress management and psychological resilience. Participants included psychologists, psychosocial therapists, civil defense personnel, nurses, case managers, journalists and other frontline professionals.

Gaza

Food assistance

• Distributed 17,036 hot meals, 4,824 ready-to-eat food parcels, 1,608 25-kilo bags of flour, 3,347 vegetable parcels to community shelters in Khan Younis, Deir Al Balah and Gaza City.
• Our teams also distributed 1,848 kitchen sets to families who needed them.

Water deliveries: 781,949 gallons of potable water went to shelters across Khan Younis, Deir Al Balah and Gaza City.

Health

• Anera opened its new Deir Al Balah primary healthcare, mother and child clinic on August 9, bringing multiple essential services together under one roof. Anera now operates four health facilities across Gaza.
• Together, the four facilities provided 5,540 health consultations during the reporting period. Eight community health days in Gaza and Khan Younis provided primary healthcare to 759 patients, including 413 women and 346 men.

Education: 1,177 students participated in Anera’s education summer program across the territory.

Women’s empowerment and psychosocial support

• 60 women in 10 groups participated in cash-for-work activities, producing and distributing 17,086 nutritious snacks to children in temporary learning spaces and families in community shelters.
• Provided 18 psychosocial support sessions reaching 396 women and girls ages 15 and older, while 92 people received safeguarding and psychosocial support services, including individual counseling, PSEA (protection from sexual exploitation and abuse) awareness, psychological first aid and referrals.
• Through Juzoor’s Helping the Helpers Program, 94 journalists and health workers completed training, with 11 participants referred for additional psychosocial support.
• Anera’s help desk responded to 1,120 inquiries, reflecting continued demand for information about assistance.

Solid waste and water infrastructure

• 72 cash-for-work laborers were deployed across nine camps, collecting and disposing of 77 tons of solid waste while carrying out shelter sterilization, sanitation and access-pathway improvements.
• Installation continued on two reverse osmosis units at municipal water wells, which will increase local capacity to provide treated water.