Help Oday, Ghadeer and Majd survive in Gaza

This fundraiser isto support Oday Eslam Alwshahe and his small family in Gaza (Oday, his wife Ghadeer Alwshahe, 29, and their son, Majd Alwshahe, who turned 3 on April 25th 2024).

Ghadeer is pregnant. Having lost their home, and been displaced several times, the family are now in Deir-el-Balah. Rising temperatures are making their basic tent uninhabitable and further increasing risks of disease, and threats to Ghadeer's pregnancy.

The attacks on Gaza continue, and the family are at grave risk of attack or starvation. Insufficient aid has reached everyone suffering in Gaza due to Israeli blockades, starvation is rife, and the cost of food and daily expenses is very high.

Here are the family together when they were in Rafah:

The family's history

Oday spent many years working in digital marketing in order to purchase a small flat as his family's home in this apartment block. This home was completely destroyed during an Israeli air strike on 12 October.

Oday, Ghadeer and Majd (aged 2 at the time) had evacuated the apartment block just hours before it was targeted with internationally banned phosphorus bombs. The family had never imagined that they would spend that night away from their home - let alone the horrors that followed - so they took none of their precious possessions with them.

Their beloved home was destroyed just a few hours after they left the building The family of three have no source of income, as Oday can no longer work - all of his work materials were destroyed in the bombing.

Furthermore, Oday has lost many friends, and his beloved father, Eslam Saleem Alwshahe, during the war. His father tragically died of cancer because it was not possible to access medical treatment due to the war. Eslam Alwshahe died on 10 December 2023 in a tent in Mawasi Khan Younis.

HOW WILL THESE FUNDS BE USED?

Funds raised here will go towards the cost of basic necessities such as food, water and shelter. And to access medical care as required, especially for Ghadeer during pregnancy. Here are some examples of what the family have been able to buy thanks to your donations:

This fundraiser is administered via Oday's trusted friend, Pippa Best, in the UK. This is because Go Fund Me is not able to make direct payments to Palestine. Donations instead must go via a UK bank account, from which they are then transferred directly to Oday in Gaza.