Anera in the News

A former South Carolina governor and a Charlestown-based tech philanthropist are partnering with Anera to establish solar-powered tent schools in Gaza. The Post and Courier’s Lynda Edwards speaks with Anera’s Sean Carroll and Sulieman Mleahat.

The BBC’s Yolande Knell reports on the continuing humanitarian challenges, visiting an Anera community kitchen in Zawayda and quoting Anera’s Sami Matar. The BBC also aired an accompanying television segment (watch).

Les Echos’ Justine Babin speaks with Anera’s Yazdan El Amawi, about the status of humanitarian aid to Gaza and the obstacles that remain despite the ceasefire.

Le Monde’s Laure Stephan speaks with Anera’s Yazdan El Amawi about the vast destruction he has witnessed in Gaza City and across Gaza. “Everything is an absolute emergency: the rehabilitation of infrastructure, as well as the needs for food, medicine, cooking gas, and tents for shelter,” he notes.

ABC News’ Gio Benitez speaks with Anera’s Sean Carroll, which has provided humanitarian and development assistance to Gaza for more than 50 years, about the road that lies ahead.

“The human body and psyche are resilient, but the resilience in Gaza, the resourcefulness, is something extraordinary and nobody should be forced to endure this.” Reporter Sharifah Shahira speaks with Anera’s Sean Carroll.

Reporter Cate Brown speaks with Anera’s Sean Carroll. “Our staff and a million more people in Gaza are facing a harrowing, untenable decision: Stay and maybe be killed, or leave their homes, maybe never to return.”

Anera’s Sean Carroll speaks with Deutsche Welle’s Anja Kueppers-McKinnon about the restrictions placed on aid organizations operating in Gaza.

Anera’s Yazdan El Amawi speaks with ABC Australia’s The Radio National Hour about the growing desperation in Gaza as growing numbers die of hunger and over a hundred aid organizations warn of “mass starvation” spreading.

Anera’s Sean Carroll speaks with BBC News’s Sumi Somaskanda about Anera’s work, the recent loss of our colleague Mahmoud Rassrass, and the deadly violence inflicted upon hungry civilians seeking aid at the militarized distribution sites in Gaza.

Anera’s Sean Carroll is quoted in El País.

Anera is cited in this article by Clarissa Pacheco and Milka Moura in Estadão.

Anera’s Sean Carroll is quoted in the Ruth Michaelson piece.

Anera’s Sean Carroll is quoted by NPR’s Jane Arraf.

Anera’s Sean Carroll is quoted in this piece by Cybele Mayes-Osterman: “This is a plan that has not demonstrated that it would be fully impartial, or that it would provide enough aid to all those in need in Gaza to prevent looting and diversion for profit.”

Anera’s Sean Carroll joins the BBC to talk about how the new militarized distribution mechanism deepens the humanitarian crisis.

With the Israeli blockade in place for more than 80 days, piles of food, medicines and water are not reaching starving Palestinians. Anera’s reports from our clinic labs of starvation indicators in blood tests is citied in the piece by Henry Porter.

CNN International host Jim Sciutto cites his conversation last week with Anera’s Sean Carroll in speaking with the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee.

Anera added its support to a Senate resolution calling on the White House to “urgently use all diplomatic tools” to facilitate hostage releases, end the blockade on the delivery of food and aid to Gaza and stop the war.

Anera’s Sean Carroll speaks with CNN International host Jim Sciutto.

Anera’s Sandra Rasheed is quoted in this piece by Marie Jo Sader. Canned and other nonperishable foods and nutritional items are “a survival solution, but it can’t remain the only recourse. We need fresh and varied products.”

This conversation with Anera’s Sean Carroll sheds light on the realities aid workers endure, the legal and ethical implications of attacks on them, and the growing challenges of maintaining humanitarian access under occupation and bombardment.

Anera’s Sean Carroll is quoted about the impact of the total blockade on all goods. “We were delivering nearly a million meals a week, and we’ve only delivered a few thousand in the past 66 days. I think governments have to use every diplomatic lever, every political lever, every economic lever to convince all parties that there needs to be a return to some semblance of delivering humanitarian aid.”

Anera’s Sean Carroll, speaks with The World’s Carolyn Beeler about the deeply concerning plans for a militarized distribution mechanism.

The opinion piece by Anera’s Sean Carroll in The New York Times is quoted extensively.

Christiane Amanpour cites The New York Times opinion piece by Anera’s Sean Carroll on the gravity of the humanitarian crisis in her interview with Sharren Haskel, Israeli deputy foreign minister. (Also viewable on Instagram.)

Sean Carroll, Anera’s president and CEO, has published an opinion piece and call to action in the New York Times.

Two months after Israel closed all crossings to the Gaza Strip, there are warnings that mass starvation could be imminent. The BBC reports from Anere’s community kitchens and speaks with Sami Matar.

Yolande Knell writes about Anera’s two community kitchens delivering meals via donkey and cart, speaking with Anera’s Sami Matar. “People rely on our meals,” Sami says. “They have no source of income to buy what’s left in the local markets and many foods are not available.”

The “Gaza/Palestine Reconstruction and Development Conference,” organized by the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF), was held in Istanbul on April 30, 2025. Anera representatives were among the speakers.

In Istanbul, Anera joined a two-day conference focused on the urgent humanitarian needs in Gaza and the prospects of economic reconstruction and development in Palestine. TRT World’s Rahul Radhakrishnan reports.

The Israeli military continues to target civilian areas across the Gaza Strip, killing at least 29 Palestinians on Monday. Israel’s unrelenting attacks on Gaza City target civilian shelters, once again killing women and children, as Tuesday’s death toll reaches 24. Sean Carroll, the president and CEO of the American Near East Refugee Aid has more.

U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (WI-02) sits down with Anera’s Sean Carroll for the congressman’s podcast. Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts or watch on YouTube.

The new regulations “could force some, and maybe even all, organizations to say ‘we cannot operate under these conditions,’ which would not be good for anyone,” Anera’s Sean Carroll tells Tim Carman of The Washington Post.

Anera’s Sean Carroll speaks with TRT World’s The Newsmakers program as the first phase of the ceasefire nears an end.

Anera welcomed a host of well-known faces for its inaugural fundraising dinner. Simon Coveney, Mary Harney, Karen Koster, Rosalind Lipsett and Sara Cosgrave were among the guests at the InterContinental Dublin.

Anera’s Sean Carroll speaks with WORLD’s Mary Muncy about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the implications of looming restrictions on UNWRA.

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Anera’s Sean Carroll joins CNN’s Omar Jiminez to provide analysis on First Move with Julia Chatterley.

As 2025 begins, Gaza faces escalating devastation with dozens killed and more hospitals destroyed since January 1st. And winter brings new suffering with babies dying from hypothermia and hospitals becoming battlegrounds, the UN calls for independent investigations. Anera’s Sean Carroll speaks to TRT’s Andrea Sanke for their program, The Newsmakers.