Dr AMAN · Gaza, Palestine and Dublin, Ireland

Some clinics have walls. In Gaza, ours had rubble

Dr AMAN is the name Gaza's families trust with their animals. Through Aman Vet Center and Phoenix Vet Clinic, our team cared for them through the war, and still does today.

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Dr A'aed holding a rescued kitten with children at an Aman Vet Center clinic in Gaza — Our clinics are open in Gaza

Dr A'aed with two lions at Gaza's zoo — Gaza's zoo

3 + 1veterinary clinics in Gaza, plus a pharmacy for people

15,000+animals treated since the war began

2022the year it all began, in Gaza

70K+people in our community

As featured in Al Jazeera University College Dublin Independent Arabia Asharq Al-Awsat Al Bawaba 24

See the work for yourself

Films and reports from inside Gaza

Film · Phoenix Vet Clinic

A new clinic opens in the middle of a war

The day Phoenix opened its doors in Gaza

Film · Our team

The vets who stayed

Our surgical team in Gaza, still operating every day

Report · Al Jazeera

Keeping Gaza's animals alive

Inside the shelter we opened for the cats and pets the war left behind

95% Interview · Al Bawaba 24

"Hunger hits Gaza's animals as hard as its people"

Our founder on a Strip where 95% of vet clinics were destroyed or shut

Dr A'aed with an elderly woman holding her small white dog, surrounded by families at an Aman Vet Center event in Gaza

An Aman Vet Center gathering in Gaza. Some patients come with their whole family.

About Dr AMAN

In Gaza, a child will carry a wounded kitten through the rubble because it is the one thing left to protect. We never turn them away.

It began in Gaza in 2022. Dr A'aed Abu Nejem founded Aman Vet Center with senior vets and people drawn together by the same quiet devotion to animals. One case at a time, that small circle became a centre the community relies on.

Then the war came, and he stayed. For months he was the only vet still working in Gaza, seeing up to a hundred animals a day. Cats carried in by children. The animals of Gaza's zoo. Horses and donkeys that now carry water, food and whole families.

Gaza needed more clinics, so Aman started a training programme for veterinary students. Dr A'aed trained them in the field and took our work into areas where animals had no vet at all. That team took shape in his last months in Gaza, before he left to continue his postgraduate studies in Ireland.

Today he is completing an MSc in Wildlife Conservation and Management at University College Dublin. Gaza and Dublin work as one team. We plan together, decide together, and keep going.

Far from Gaza. Never away from it.

Legally registeredAman Vet Center is registered in Palestine.

Licensed vetsOur lead vets are registered with the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture.

A big team that stayedVets, field workers, staff and photographers healing animals every day.

Many directions, one missionClinics, a pharmacy, training, One Health, films and our shop.

One Health

Healthy animals, healthy people, a healthy land

The health of people, animals, farms and the environment is one connected system. In Gaza we see every link of that chain up close, so our work covers all of it.

A One Health model from Gaza combining solar power, water treatment and farming — A One Health model from Gaza: solar power, water treatment and farming in one system.

Animals

Treatment, surgery, vaccination and emergency care for pets, working animals and livestock.

People

A pharmacy for people, and prevention of diseases that pass between animals and humans.

Farming and food

Keeping herds alive with herders and farmers, so families keep their milk, food and income.

Environment

Watching how damaged soil, water and waste spread disease, and teaching communities to break that cycle.

Gaza is the hardest lesson the world has in One Health. When animals, people and land collapse together, everyone pays. We learned what works under the worst conditions, and we are ready to share it with universities, agencies and governments.

One Health in Gaza · the numbers

When animals, land and water break down together, families feel it first

One Health rests on a simple fact: most diseases that threaten people start in animals. Put that fact inside one of the most crowded strips of land on earth, with damaged farms and few vets, and you have Gaza today.

6 in 10

Known infectious diseases in people can spread from animals.¹

Worldwide

365km²

The whole Gaza Strip: about 41 km long and 6 to 12 km wide.

Gaza Strip

87%

Of Gaza's cropland is still damaged.²

2026

14,300

Sheep and goats survived the war across the entire Strip.³

Late 2025

Select a governorateقطاع غزة، فلسطين

Our clinics and mobile teams work across the Strip. We don't publish exact locations, to keep the team safe. Boundaries are approximate.

What is left of Gaza's animals

Share of each kind of animal still alive, compared with before October 2023.^{3, 4}

Working animals

79.5%

Goats

33%

Sheep

20%

Cattle

3.8%

Poultry

1.4%

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Working animals are the horses and donkeys that now carry water, food and people. With fuel gone, they keep whole neighbourhoods moving.

+33%

The first recovery since the war began: between late 2025 and mid 2026, sheep numbers rose by a third and goats by 8%, once feed and veterinary care reached herders. Care works.²

Dr A'aed examining a donkey with its owners among olive trees in Gaza

Why we treat animals in a humanitarian crisis

When animals are lost, families lose milk, income and the only transport left. When soil and water fail, the animals are next, and disease moves between animals and people more easily. Caring for animals is how we protect children, families and the land they depend on. That is One Health, and in Gaza it is a daily practice.

1. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, One Health 2. UN Food and Agriculture Organization with UNOSAT satellite data, June 2026 3. Livestock assessment of November 2025, published April 2026 4. Working animals, cattle and poultry, May 2025

Clinics and care

Our work in Gaza, every day

From emergency surgery in the street to research on the Irish coast, everything comes back to one idea: healthy animals keep people and places alive.

Gaza · 3 clinics and a pharmacy

Aman Vet Center

Three veterinary clinics and a pharmacy for people across Gaza, run by our local team. Our founder guides them every day and opens doors through our network inside and outside Gaza.

Step inside our clinic

Dr A'aed treating an injured donkey on a cart

Emergency care

Treatment when it can't wait

Wounds, surgery and treatment for pets and for the horses and donkeys families rely on, the moment they arrive.

Keep the doors open

Dr A'aed teaching children about animals in a tent in Gaza

Healing

Animal assisted therapy

With gentle companion animals, we ease the trauma of war for women and children, and bring them back into the life of their community.

Bring a smile back

Our team of vets and assistants at a pop-up clinic in Gaza

Training

Training the next vets

We train veterinary students in the field, so more areas of the Strip have a vet close by when animals need one.

Meet our vets

Wildlife

Gaza's zoo

Our founder supervised the care of Gaza's zoo through the war, including its last lions. Dr AMAN still stands by them.

Research · Ireland

Wildlife research at UCD

Our founder's MSc research at University College Dublin studies Influenza A in seals stranded on the Irish coast.

Read the UCD story

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Opening soon

The Dr AMAN Shop

Our first collection is on its way: products designed to carry Gaza's story into homes around the world. Every purchase sends support back to the animals and families of Gaza.

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Dr AMAN Films