Help Mohammad's family settle out of Gaza

Help Mohammad get his family out of Gaza

A friend of mine, Mohammed Dahdooh, is asking for support to gather enough funds to secure a safe passage from the beseiged Gaza strip.

Mohammed's family has been living in Gaza City until they were ordered to evacuate in mid-october. So far they have been displaced 4 times, now in danger of ending up in a make-shift tent in Rafah, where basic life necessities are lacking. With every passing day the fear of another displacement gets closer with no safe area to move to, and with bombardment getting closer. Their family's neighbourhood has been almost completely destroyed, and their house has been damaged.

The collected money will be transfered to Mohammed's family so they can secure a safe passage from Rafah crossing into Egypt. Right now it is about $8000 per person to pass, for a family of 7 this means we need around $56000.

Here is Mohammad's message:

Hello, I am Mohammad AlDahdooh, writing to youy as I am packing my bag and my family's stuff to be displaced for the fourth time. From within The European Hospital in Khan Younis (the third place I have been displaced to) we recieved a text from the Israeli Army ordering us to evacuate to areas far in Rafah.

This has been our daily life, escaping death over and over and chasing food, water, and medicine from the various diseases that continuously infect us. Death is the only thing ahead of us as we are surrounded by these high metal fences besieging us in Rafah.

In October, we were forced to leave our home, which was later on damaged and looted. This is the backyard of our house, where we had our beautiful garden that had fruit trees and flowers, the place of our memories and family gatherings. Everything vanished and was destroyed, including my library full of books and science. It was all destroyed.

As clearly seen it is now extremely hard to return home, our area and our house was turned into a barracks for soldiers and tanks (its tracks visiblee in the photo). The tanks worked to remove all our memories and trees and heaped tons of sand and rocks on it to be a mound for the tanks to station behind.

The idea of the presence of a tank in our garden and the entry of soldiers into our house and destroying its furniture is a terrifying idea and a terror that knows no bounds. These photos were taken during the ceasefire two months ago with great dificulty.

I am a physics graduate from the Azhar university of Gaza, and have secured a position to work as a teacher in Kuwait. I was planning to resume my higher education after travelling and securing a sustainable income as a physics teacher in the Kuwaiti Ministry of Education.

My father, Bahgat AlDahdooh, is a tailor and a farmer. He lost the source of his livelihood as his workshop was hit by an airstrike and his agricultural land was destroyed. My beloved father is always proud of me, I don't want to lose him in this war as he is my lighthouse in this life.

My sister, Jumana, was in her second year in university, studying software development. She however lost hope of continuing her studies after the Islamic university was bombed and came out of service.

My brother Adam, pictured here smiling after he got honored by his school for being a top student, hoped to study medicine, but now there are no opportunities for education in the strip after universities were targeted and the whole education sector was decimated via striking universities and schools.

My other brother, Abdulhadi, our lovely future lawyer, dreamt of studing law to defend helpless people.

This is my caring mother, Shireen, with my last sibling, Tamim. She spent her whole life caring for us and she doesnot want anything but seeing us in the best of ways and places. She prays for us day and night to survive and continue our paths to help humanity. Please help us save the lives of my family and my mother and evacuate them away from danger. We as a family have no where no go and no means of survival, in an environment of extreme paucity and exploitation.

After being displaced from the hospital we had to buy a tent for around $500, an imaginary figure for the people of Gaza, or else we'll have no where to go. There are absolutely no amenities or services where we are going now, with no hope of returning to our lives before the war.

We are asking for help to collect enough funds to secure our passing from the Rafah. An amount of $8000 per person is required to leave Gaza now.

We are an extremely close family, we can't handle losing each other; we love life, and we deserve to live, and we always dream of having beautiful lives in this world. Right now, with the dangers to our lives at an all-high as the Israeli army closes by more and more, we are all mentally exhausted as we no longer have source of income. We don't deserve to die like this.

For us there is no future in Gaza nor any guarantees of a better life, time after time we live a horrendous war and at last this worst war campaign occured. If we stay in Gaza we are throwing our dreams into the bin as neither universities, schools, nor hospitals are operating now.

The institutions and municipalities of our city are totally destroyed and out of service, signalling the massive hardships we face now and will have to face later.

We want to dream and help humanity; I want to be a teacher and continue my further studies to be an academic and a researcher, my sister which is still in education, my brother who was getting ready for his general secondary exams as well as my younger brother.

We are an ambitious family that want to fully take our chances in life, so we urge you, in the name of humanity, to help us as much as you can so our dreams of helping others and humanity are not buried in the dirt for years to come. We deserve life and we do not support any terror for us or others.