Help Alaa & Dana family rebuild their lives after the bombin

Our story: The journey of engineer Alaa, his wife, engineer Dana, and their twin children, Alma and Lama, from Gaza

Hello, my name is Alaa, and I am a Palestinian civil engineer from Gaza. This is my family: my engineer wife, Dana, and my children, Alma and Lama. We lived a grateful and warm life in Gaza, a life we ​​worked hard to build during the past years of struggle in Gaza City. Now, this life seems impossible.

The arrival of Alma and Lama came after years of marriage and after long suffering that God gave us. One of the goals of this campaign is to protect my beautiful twins, whom I struggled to conceive and before becoming pregnant with them. I had several abortions before becoming pregnant with them, until I became pregnant with them, and that was like pregnancy. Very difficult. My doctor recommended that I take subcutaneous injections of Clexane daily until delivery, in addition to stabilizers and vitamins. I was unable to do anything due to pregnancy fatigue and its symptoms, constant vomiting and dizziness, until I had to stay in the hospital for several days and take nutritional fluids intravenously due to dehydration and high levels of creatinine in the blood, so that, God willing, the pregnancy would continue. The surprise was that they were twins. I endured the fatigue and inability. I had to eat and drink due to high fever, and unlike all pregnant women, my weight began to decrease instead of increasing as usual, when I went to the hospital to schedule my delivery, so the doctors had to transfer me to the operating room and perform a cesarean section on me after the doctor was surprised that the umbilical cord was wrapped around It almost harmed the fetuses, so they were able to save them quickly, and thank God they were saved and I became a mother for the first time. I have beautiful twin girls and I am afraid of any harm that might happen to them.

Medical reports from doctors in Gaza and Hala Fertility Center

After long suffering, and thanks to God, the twins Alma and Lama came, and our lives changed, and we lived beautiful days.

1_ The Displacement

The first suffering began after the army ordered the evacuation of the northern Gaza area. We were forced to leave our homes and head south to Rafah after we were asked to evacuate. We lived in northern Gaza, specifically in the Jabalia camp, which was destroyed and its surroundings.

2- The second disaster was the bombing and destruction of my house, my car, my workplace, and everything I owned

After many years of fatigue and hard work, like any ambitious person, who aspires to settle in a beautiful, safe house, a car to help me work and move, and an engineering office in which I used to work, suddenly the disaster destroyed everything I owned, and I and my beautiful twin daughters, Alma and Lama, were left without any shelter to shelter us. Of the dangers of time, as there will never come a more difficult time and time than this time and the catastrophe that we are experiencing, and we have no ability to do so and no guilt.

We evacuated our home with only a small bag of clothes before it got bombed and totally burned. So technically, YES, we lost EVERYTHING, from the biggest to the smallest little detail.

My family, home , My car

Before the war

After the war

MY CAR

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL_8yRTF9QA

3-Escaping death twice And Financial Struggles in Rafah

After being displaced to Rafah, we faced high expenses due to the blockade imposed on Gaza. Prices soared, and I lost a significant amount of money. We experienced terrible situations that I never thought I would go through with my kids.

We lost our home and our parents' homes. We escaped death many times, experienced hunger, and lacked medicine. I lost my job and the income that my children and I depended on. We were absolutely terrorized, feeling abandoned and hopeless at all times.

The price of a bag of Pampers for my children is $70, and all the prices are double, as I spent the remaining money I had on very expensive household expenses, and at the same time my heart and soul were there in my destroyed house, my destroyed car, and my destroyed workplace. What will I do in all these losses and how will I build my life from new !!!!

4-My Education , My life's dream and the goal I always dreamed of.

I studied a master's degree in civil engineering, specializing in engineering project management, to develop myself and my work in tenders and contracting. I deposited approximately $7,000, with each hour of study at the Islamic University of Gaza costing $100. I completed my studies, received my master's degree, and paid all the required fees just three days before October 7th.

I was aspiring to obtain a doctorate in engineering after obtaining a master’s degree, and this is my life’s dream, but my ambition suddenly disappeared after the destruction of everything I owned, and I did not have any money left to provide for my twin children with their daily needs. So how will I obtain my life’s dream, which is a doctorate in engineering?

5-Alaa worked in the engineering office and a small company that distributed meals to cancer patients and psychiatric patients (a new disaster)

I owned a small contracting company where I distributed meals and necessary nutrition to cancer patients in the Turkish Friendship Hospital and to psychiatric patients. The kitchen or distribution headquarters was inside Al-Shifa Hospital. With the storming of the hospital, my goods were destroyed, and the equipment and machines for preparing food were ruined.

he lost food equipment and goods equivalent to $10,000.

My car was also destroyed, as shown in the pictures. I employed several people in my company and was responsible for their families. Therefore, we seek support to help these families who lost their jobs due to the war and the destruction of Al-Shifa Hospital.

The heavy losses of war

We lost something that money will never replace. We lost our memories, our dignity, and our decent life, as we began to seek only water and food for our children, without any source of income.

The losses of the Alaa family were as follows. I will start with the thing that oppressed us and mentioned the life within us, which is the house, the house of the twins Alma and Lama, which is equivalent to 40 thousand dollars.

$10,000 in kitchen equipment and goods that I owned.

$12,000 My private car was destroyed

3 thousand dollars, my engineering office.

There are high costs of war due to these obscene prices that cannot be estimated.

That is, approximately 65 thousand dollars, but I did not lose hope because there are many people in the world who love life and the humanity that unites us and brings us together.

Can you fathom the pain of losing your home, your livelihood, and the fruits of a lifetime's labor in the blink of an eye? It is a crushing blow that defies comprehension, a wound that cuts to the core of our existence.

Yet, in the midst of this darkness, a glimmer of light shines through - your unwavering support. With your generosity, we can embark on a new chapter in Alaa & Dana journey towards healing and restoration. Together, we will rebuild not only his life but the lives of his cherished family. Through your support and kindness, we can offer Alma and Lama a future free from the shadows of their past, a chance at a life filled with dignity and hope.

Know that your support is more than a lifeline - it is a beacon of hope, illuminating the path towards a brighter tomorrow for the resilient souls of Alaa and Dana family .

I aim to collect donations to preserve my twin daughters, Alma and Lama, as I waited days and years to see them, and I want to achieve my dream of obtaining a doctorate in engineering, and rebuilding my home and my work, which were gone in moments.

Dearest regards,

Alaa and DANA