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Help Baby Yazan and his Young Family to Survive #URGENT

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And here is Baby Yazan, recently born during Gaza war, and his young family. Gaza suffers enormous damage from bombing and there are no safe places or living conditions.
This young family is struggling to meet basic necessities for all their children and to provide Baby Yazan with pampers and milk. They live from one day to the next in constant fear of constant bombing and further displacement from one place to the next. Please, help them evacuate!

While some are able to leave Gaza for Egypt at their own expense, not everyone can afford the incredibly high costs, and we will write on the costs in detail in the updates.

Donations are collected by the organizer of this campaign in Germany, which is an uncle of Hana and his wife, and will be transferred by bank account or Western Union or MoneyGram as the situation allows.

Now, this is more of the story of Baby Yazan and his family in this horrific war, written by his mother Hana from the eyes of little Yazan.

Hi, I am Yazan Ahmed I. Ghanim, I am only two months old. I was born in Rafah at Gaza Strip and my mom always tells me that there is a strange story about my birth.

I decided to come to life at a very bad time, specifically on January,15, 2024 at five in the morning, the birthmarks began for my mom, and there were no communication networks to call an ambulance, there was no transportation, but hardly my dad managed to get a car for one of the relatives, as the only maternity hospital was far from the place of our displacement, and on the way, the car broke down at a critical time for the birth, so "sorry mom but I had to get in the car, there is no other choice", my aunt helped my mother with that, and my dad had to leave them and go running to the nearest hospital to get an ambulance. This took about 10 minutes, but unfortunately during this time I was suffering from difficulty breathing and severe cold, so they put me in neonatal intensive care for two days because I was suffering from convulsions, but don't worry I decided to fight and now I am better.
But I don't think my family is getting better, they live near bombing all the time, hear it and feel very afraid.

My dad Ahmed who's 40 years old said, in past we were living a happy life in Gaza with my mom Hana, she's 35 years old, and my siblings Nada 10 years old, Mohammed 8 years old, and Qosai 6 years old. That happiness disappeared with the beginning of the war on October 7, 2023, the area where we lived was bombed by warplanes and many houses were destroyed, and at October 13, 2023, our situation became even worse and the whole area became unsafe, the house next to ours was bombed, windows and doors were broken over my family, and my house burned, so my family decided to leave the area in search of a slightly safer place.

During this search, my family was exposed to a lot of troubles, including severe cold, lack of food or water, and no proper bathroom. They were forced to move several times in the Gaza Strip until they reached Rafah, where I was born and where I still hear the sounds of bombing.

So, my family decided to leave Gaza to Egypt, as we have lost all hopes for a ceasefire and finding a safe place within Gaza, and there is no habitable place in Gaza.
During this war, I lost my dear aunt and grandfather, who they told me would have loved to see me very much.
My grandmother and part of my family traveled to Egypt in search of safety, and I hope to live with her in a safe place. I hope to find a place where I can sleep without bombing, and where my sister and brothers can eat, drink, and play in safety.

The costs of crossing to Egypt are incredibly high, currently 5,000 US dollars for an adult plus 1,200 USD for temporary passport, and 2,500 USD for a child plus 1,200 USD for temporary passport. Besides that, we currently lost everything, our belongings, our house in Gaza, and schools for my siblings.

We ask for your help to leave the Gaza Strip to Egypt, allowing us to find a new home, and for Nada, Mohammed, and Qosai to complete schools.

We hope for your help and your generous donation to us, even if it is a small amount, that will make a big difference, and thank you very much for reading what we faced and how we tried to put it into words as best as possible. Many thanks!

Here we were in Rafah after being displaced for the first time.
This is a foto of Baby Yazan at two months after his birth during Gaza war.

مرحبا انا الطفل يزن غانم من غزة ابلغ من العمر اربع شهور العمر قررت أن آتي إلى الحياة
بوقت سئ للغاية وتحديدا في 15 كانون الثاني من عام 2024 في الساعة الخامسة صباحا بدات الآم المخاض عند امي وفيةهذا الوقت لم يكن شبكات اتصال ولا يمكننا الاتصال بسيارة الاسعاف وبالكاد تمكن والدي من الحصول على سيارة لأحد أقاربي حيث أن مستشفى الولادة الوحيد في رفح كان بعيدا عن مكان نزوحنا وفي الطريق تعطلت السيارة في وقت حرج للولادة لذلك اضطررت أن أولد بالشارع ، ساعدت خالتي والدتي في ذلك واضطر والدي الى تركهم والذهاب مسرعا الى اقرب نقطة طبية للحصول على سيارة اسعاف استغرق ذلك حوالي 10 دقائق و خلال هذه الفترة كنت أعاني من صعوبة التنفس وبرد شديد فوضعوني في العناية المركزة لحديثي الولادة لمدة يومين لانني كنت أعاني من تشنجات ولكن الحمد الله الان صحتي افضل لكن وضع عائلتي سئ جدا حيث تم تدمير بيتنا في الشمال قبل ان آراه و ودائما نسمع أصوات القصف ونشعر بالخوف الشديد حيث اخوتي الصغار ندى ومحمد وقصي يشعرون بالخوف وعدم الاستقرار و اختفت سعادة اخوتي الصغار وكانو يعانون من البرد ونقص الطعام والماء وعدم وجود حمام مناسب لقد اضطرت عائلتي للنزوح والتنقل عدة مرات داخل قطاع غزة حتى وصلو الى رفح وما زال يسمعون اصوات القصف. لذلك نرجو لمساعدتنا للسفر خارج غزة لايجاد مكان آمن بحيث أصبحت غزة لا تصلح للسكن نأمل بمساعدتكم نتمكن من العثور على منزل جديد وحياة مستقرة وآمنة لي ولعائلتي الصغيرة ... وشكرا لكم

This is a video (VID-20240309-WA0000.mp4) from inside of our destroyed house Ahmed uploaded at YouTube ('abu al amal' is Arabic and means 'Father of Hope', meaning he's full of hope for the future of his newborn and all his family).


This was in better times, in April 2023, before the war in Gaza, we loved to go to the seaside.



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Sigrid Boczor
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Hamburg, Hamburg
Hana Ghanem
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