Gaza and West Bank Response Log | March 2025

This week we’re distributing 1,230 clothing vouchers for vulnerable families in the northern West Bank to purchase new clothing for the approaching Eid Al Fitr holiday.

Today, in northern Gaza we distributed 13,209 gallons (50,000 liters or 50 cubic meters) of potable water, supporting more than 16,665 people.

In Khan Younis, we hosted wound management; ear, nose and throat; pediatric; orthopedic; physiotherapy; and urology clinics at our field primary healthcare center today, serving 336 patients. With support from Americares, our physiotherapy team conducted ‘home visits’ to conduct therapy sessions for patients in their tents.

Today, at our distribution center in Hebron in the West Bank, we received a new medical aid shipment from Direct Relief. The donation includes pediatric antibiotics (azithromycin), anti-gout medications (unavailable at public clinics for 18 months), anti-diabetic medications. We will soon distribute these medicines to health facilities across the West Bank.

In Gaza, we hosted wound management, physiotherapy, dermatology, gynecology, and general surgery clinics at our field primary healthcare center in Khan Younis today, serving 324 patients.

In northern Gaza, we distributed 7,925 gallons (30,000 liters or 30 cubic meters) of potable water, supporting 10,000 people.

Today, we continued our water trucking program to distribute 15,850 gallons (60,000 liters or 60 cubic meters) of clean drinking water to families in Gaza City and North Gaza.

And in Khan Younis, our field primary healthcare center hosted wound management; ear, nose, and throat; nutrition; internal; noncommunicable disease; and deworming clinics, seeing 275 patients.

“This morning, on our team call, staff from the north and the south shared what a horrific night they had endured. Bombs pounded the whole of Gaza nonstop, and quadcopters were firing throughout the night. People in Rafah and Deir Al Balah were ordered to evacuate immediately and not to take anything with them, not even a single piece of paper, or they would be shot. This nightmare is even more brutal than when it all began. Nothing is more devastating than giving people a sliver of hope, only to snatch it away and hit back even harder.” — Sandra Rasheed, Anera’s Palestine country director

One of our team in Al Zawayda, Deir Al Balah reports that people are desperately hungry. “This time is different. The situation is terrifying and frightening. There is a deliberate, prolonged policy of starvation, with intensified bombing and forced displacement.”

In grocery stores, many shelves are empty, including in big supermarkets. There are no eggs, cooking oil, or canned meat. Today, at the market there were no tomatoes or onions. For what remains, the prices are tripled.

Amid all this, families are each inventing their own “Gaza survival cookery.” Drawing on past experiences of acute hardship and relying largely on canned food, people are inventing new dishes.

This includes a variation on kofta, made now with canned meat distributed by Anera, spices, and shaped to look like real kofta. “And it tasted really good??”

With the same canned meat, she also made kibbeh bil laban, using bulgar and feta cheese for the laban (yogurt sauce).

A recipe for survival kibbeh:

• canned meat
• bulgur
• 4 spoons of flour
• spices

Many women in Gaza are sharing similar recipes that they’ve invented out of necessity. “When it is over, we’ll eat what we love,” one of our Gaza team says. “Now, we have to be strong and patient.”

Today, through our Women Can program we distributed 1,200 packages of maamoul (date-filled pastries, commonly consumed at Eid Al-Fitr and other holidays) to medical patients in Gaza City. Our production and distribution of these pastries was made possible with support from a private family foundation.

Also in northern Gaza, we distributed 15,850 gallons (60,000 liters or 60 cubic meters) of drinking water, supporting 20,000 people.

We also distributed 140, 000 meals today. These were World Food Programme-supplied ready-to-eat meal packages that we distributed to 4,000 displaced people in Mawasi Qarara, in Khan Younis. Many people have arrived in the area after fleeing forced evacuation orders and military attacks. Very few food stores remain after nearly a month of closure.

Also today, our field primary healthcare center in Khan Younis hosted wound management, pediatric, laser therapy, gynecology, general surgery, and psychiatric clinics, seeing 214 patients.

Families in Gaza City are again displaced, fleeing military assault, carrying what they can of their belongings.

Amid the return to war, our health clinics are providing essential medical services to patients in need.

Following several days of feverish work to relocate our tent complex, our Khan Younis field primary healthcare center reopened today at our new location, down the road from our previous site. Our wound management; ear, nose and throat; orthopedic; physiotherapy; urology; and pediatric clinics saw 129 patients.

And our field primary healthcare center in Deir Al Balah also reopened today following closure yesterday due to the newly intensified attacks on Gaza. Today, we added therapeutic nutrition to our clinic services. Since March 11, we hosted wound management; pediatric; gynecology and obstetrics; dermatology; internal medicine and noncommunicable diseases; ear, nose and throat; orthopedic; and therapeutic nutrition clinics, providing treatment to a total of 712 patients.

Today, our operations are at a minimum due to the dangers and uncertainties created by the renewed Israeli attacks.

Yesterday, we began the process of relocating our field primary healthcare center in Mawasi, Khan Younis to a new location some 300 meters (roughly two or three city blocks) away. We continued work today to establish the facilities in the new site. More people are arriving in Mawasi from Rafah and eastern Khan Younis, fleeing Israeli forces.

Overnight, the Israeli military launched a devastating wave of airstrikes across Gaza, claiming the lives of more than 400 people — one of the deadliest nights since the war began. Anera’s staff, thankfully, remain unharmed and have not had to evacuate at the time of writing. However, an estimated 65,000 survivors across Gaza, from Beit Hanoun to Rafah, have been ordered to evacuate and forced to flee their homes and shelters.

This latest escalation comes after more than two weeks without any humanitarian aid. Israel has closed all crossings since March 2. The remaining hospitals and clinics are struggling to treat the wounded, facing dangerously low or depleted supplies of medicines and healthcare items. Anera’s primary healthcare centers in Deir Al Balah and Khan Younis were forced to temporarily halt their operations today due to the violence.

Gaza’s population is entirely reliant on aid, and with the crossings closed, food supplies have dwindled to catastrophic levels. Prices are beyond the reach of many, and the blockade continues to disrupt critical humanitarian efforts like Anera’s, which have been vital in staving off famine. In the past days, the lack of supplies has forced us to pause our food distribution.

Read Anera’s full statement >>>

Today, in the south of Gaza with support from UNICEF we distributed 460 hygiene kits.

In the north, our water trucking program provided 15,850 gallons (60,000 liters or 60 cubic meters) of potable water to 20,000 people.

And with support from Americares, our mother and child health clinics operated today and the past two days, with pediatric, general, and internal medicine physicians seeing 538 patients in Beit Lahia, Jabalia and Al Maghazi Camp. We diagnosed 16 women with malnutrition, eight children with moderate acute malnutrition and one child with severe acute malnutrition.

Today, in the north of Gaza our water trucking program provided 18,492 gallons (70,000 liters or 70 cubic meters) of potable water to 23,300 people.

At our field primary healthcare center in Deir Al Balah City from February 25 to today, we hosted wound management, pediatric, gynecology and obstetrics; dermatology; internal medicine; ear, nose and throat; and orthopedic clinics, treating a total of 1,229 patients.

Today, we distributed potable water to families in Gaza City and North Gaza through Anera’s water trucking program.

Our Khan Younis field primary healthcare center is seeing a growing number of patients, as other health facilities are experiencing worsening shortages of medicines and supplies due to the continuing closure of all crossings into Gaza. Since March 3, no aid has been permitted into Gaza. Anera’s health clinics are relatively well stocked due to shipments of medical aid that arrived shortly prior to the closure.

Today in Khan Younis, we hosted wound management, internal medicine, dermatology, deworming, and noncommunicable disease clinics, seeing 395 patients.

Today, we distributed dates, sardines, and wheat flour bags, supplying a total of 37,884 meals. With support from HEAL Palestine, in the south we distributed 700 boxes of dates, providing 7,700 meals; 700 boxes of sardines, providing 14,784 meals; and 1,400 bags of wheat flour, providing 15,400 meals.

We also distributed UNICEF-supplied dignity kits to support the hygiene needs of 1,500 displaced families.

At our Khan Younis our field primary healthcare center, we hosted wound management; ear, nose and throat; pediatric; orthopedic; physiotherapy; and urology clinics, serving 294 patients.

We also distributed a medical aid shipment from FAJR Scientific. The medical aid was locally purchased in the West Bank. Some of the aid will replenish our health clinic pharmacies.

Today, we are distributing fresh produce to vulnerable families in Tubas, West Bank. Following the closure of all crossings into Gaza on Sunday, we rerouted this shipment intended for Gaza in order to ensure these fresh fruit and vegetables parcels did not spoil.

Today, we distributed a total of 92,004 meals, in the form of dates, sardines, and wheat flour bags. In the south, with support from HEAL Palestine, we distributed 1,700 boxes of dates, providing 18,700 meals; 1,700 boxes of sardines, providing 35,904 meals; and 3,400 bags of wheat flour, providing 37,400 meals. Additionally, we distributed UNICEF-supplied hygiene kits to support 360 families in maintaining basic sanitation.

Today, our Khan Younis field primary healthcare center hosted wound management, physiotherapy, dermatology, gynecology, and general surgery clinics, serving 322 patients.

Since February 17, we have also hosted six Americares-supported field medical clinic days in northern and southern Gaza, serving 1,384 patients, primarily pregnant and nursing women and children. We diagnosed seven children with moderately acute malnutrition and 69 women with malnutrition.

Today, we distributed a total of 54,120 meals, in the form of dates, sardines and wheat flour bags. With support from HEAL Palestine, in the south we distributed 1,000 boxes of dates, providing 11,000 meals; 1,000 boxes of sardines, providing 21,120 meals; and 2,000 bags of wheat flour, providing 22,000 meals. Additionally, we distributed UNICEF-supplied hygiene kits to 300 families.

Today, our Khan Younis field primary healthcare center hosted deworming; wound management; ear, nose and throat; nutrition; internal medicine; and noncommunicable disease clinics, serving 250 patients.

Anera is profoundly concerned by the closure of all entry points into Gaza, announced by Israel on Sunday, March 2, and immediately put into effect. The move, which halts critical aid shipments and guarantees a worsening of Gaza’s already dire humanitarian crisis, comes as negotiations on the next phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas falter. Read Anera’s full statement.

Today, we distributed a total of 174,451 meals through fresh produce parcels, wheat flour bags, dates and sardines. With support from HEAL Palestine, the team in the south distributed 650 boxes of dates, providing 7,150 meals. They also distributed 650 boxes of sardines, providing 13,728 meals, and 1,300 bags of wheat flour, providing 14,300 meals.

In the north, we distributed 3,150 Islamic Relief USA-funded fresh produce parcels, providing 116,424 meals. Additionally, we distributed 2,885 Emirati Red Crescent boxes of canned sardines, providing 22,849 meals.

Also today, one of our patients at our Khan Younis field primary healthcare center completed her course of treatments at our laser therapy clinic for burn scars on her hand. She is thrilled by the results. We hosted wound management, pediatric, laser therapy, gynecology, general surgery, and psychiatric clinics, serving 207 patients.

Today, in the south we distributed UNICEF-supplied hygiene kits to 900 families.

In Khan Younis, we hosted wound management, orthopedic, physiotherapy, and laser therapy clinics at our field primary healthcare center, serving 140 patients.

Today, our field primary healthcare center in Khan Younis hosted wound, dermatology, noncommunicable disease, internal medicine, and deworming clinics, serving 357 patients.

Today, we distributed fresh produce parcels funded by Islamic Relief USA to displaced families in Gaza.