Urgent: Help Abushaban family evacuate Gaza

Asalamu alaikum,

This is difficult to do, but I am asking my community for your support and generosity to help my family in Gaza. My family has made the extremely difficult decision to flee their beloved homeland after four months of constant bombings, violence, and starvation. I am fundraising for eight members of my family to evacuate Gaza and seek safety and stability.

My family was violently displaced from their home in Gaza City and are now living in Rafah in a tent structure with little food, no potable water, no electricity and no access to necessary medicine or care for my diabetic uncle. The eight people includes my cousin's four month old baby, born during this bombardment. Every day is a struggle for survival as they must scavenge for food and wood for cooking while simultaneously being surrounded by tanks and enduring constant bombardment.

I have started this fundraising campaign because it has become necessary for them to evacuate to Egypt for safety and stability. They have lost everything in this war, including my uncle's business and the family's only source of income. He owned a beloved dessert restaurant in the community (Bubbles), which was destroyed early on.

Unfortunately, the cost of escape and temporary shelter in Egypt is more than my family or I can afford so I am relying on your generosity to help my family find some peace. This is for one branch of my family in Gaza, eight people, who are hoping to escape.

Your donation will get my family to safety and give them a chance to live a dignified life. My family and I appreciate your empathy and compassion and I hope that I can transfer the funds as soon as possible as the situation in Rafah is continuing to worsen.

This is a cost breakdown of their needs and how the funds will be used:

Rafah border crossing: 8 people * $5,000 = $40,000

Passport fees: 8 * $150 = $1,200

Rent a temporary home: 2 months * $500 = $1,000

Living expenses: 2 months * $1,500 = $3,000

GoFundMe fees: $45,200 * 2.9% = $1,311

Total: $46,511

I am incredibly inspired by the resilience and unwavering faith of my family and of all the people of Gaza and pray for their survival and continuing faith. I believe that this is the least that you and I can do to support them, inshallah. Thank you for your empathy and generosity and for keeping my family in your prayers.

The Abushaban Family