Help the Mousa Family Escape Gaza & Receive Medical Aid
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Dr. Mohammed Mousa was a fellow classmate and is a dear friend of ours from Gaza. A quiet, observant guy, a caring father of four children (5, 7, 11, and 14 year olds), and a concerned husband. Before he could finish the Master program, he had to return home when his son, Omer, was diagnosed with adult-type hemangioma, a tumor made up of clumped blood vessels inside his head.
The little kid Omer is in constant, severe pain and can barely hear. He was being treated in a specialised hospital in Israel, when the situation in Gaza deteriorated drastically on October 7, 2023. Their house got destroyed by bombs, and they had to evacuate to save their lives. Since then, the family of six has been on the run for their lives with the extremely sick child, forced to live without adequate food or sanitary facilities, facing the risk of starvation, infectious diseases, and death.
We, a team of students, have joined this father’s efforts to get the family to a safe place with proper medical care for Omer. As you must already know, nowhere is safe in Gaza at the moment. That is why we are raising funds to help the family get across the border into Egypt. The border pass to leave Gaza currently costs $12,000 for adult males, $9,000 for adult females, and $2,000 for children under 16 years of age.
In Egypt Omer has the chance to receive the medical care he urgently requires.
We urge you to consider donating to the Mousa family. Additionally, we ask you to share the link to this fundraiser across all possible channels. We are racing against time as the situation in Gaza and Omers medical conditions and the familys overall health are getting more critical by the day.
We also hope to raise money to accommodate the family in Egypt while exploring different possibilities to get Omer the medical treatment he needs.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for donating & for sharing this fundraiser!
— Laura-Alina Fabich, on behalf of the Mousa family and the student fundraiser team.
Read more from Mohammed Mousa and his family in this newspaper article from 13.04.2024:
[The article is in German but can be translated in your browser or you can text us for an translation]
Omer (5y.) after treatment, which was stopped when the conflict intensified on 07.10.23.
In the improvised settlements in Rafah, there is a lack of safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, food and medicine, therefore infectious diseases are skyrocketing with no functioning medical facilities left.
This is the tent the family of six shared in Rafah after they had to evacuate from their home, which later got destroyed by shrapnel of an attack near by.
This is what is left from their house in Gaza.
This shows the Mousa family in their home before their house was bombed.
Click to watch Mohammeds appeal for his family’s safety.
[Arabic version]
اسمي لورا وأنا أقوم مع زملائي بجمع التبرعات الطلاب لصالح زميلنا السابق الدكتور محمد موسى من غزة. اضطر محمد إلى ترك برنامجنا الدراسي مبكراً لأن حالة ابنه في غزه تدهورت بشكل كبير وكان بحاجة ماسة لعملية جراحية في الرأس.
كان ابنه عمر، 5 سنوات، يتلقى العلاج في عيادة متخصصة في إسرائيل حتى تصاعد النزاع في 7 أكتوبر 2023، وتغير كل شيء بالنسبة لعائلة موسى وأطفالهم الأربعة (5 و 7 و 11 و 13 سنة). وقد دمرت القنابل منزلهم وكان لا بد من إجلاء الأسرة. وهم يعيشون الآن في خيمة في ظروف محفوفة بالمخاطر للغاية دون الحصول على المياه النظيفة أو العنايه الصحية الملائمة. هناك زيادة سريعة في الأمراض المعدية.
لم يكن بالإمكان مواصلة علاج عمر، فهو الآن يعاني من آلام شديدة وبالكاد يستطيع السمع. يحتاج عمر وإخوته الثلاثة ووالديه إلى الخروج بشكل عاجل من غزة، حيث لا يوجد حاليًا مكان آمن وتفتقر إلى الرعاية الطبية.
نريد مساعدة محمد وعائلته على الخروج من غزة إلى مصر، حيث يستطيع عمر الحصول على الرعاية الطبية التي يحتاجها بشكل عاجل.
نريد جمع الأموال في أسرع وقت ممكن، حيث أن وضع عمر أصبح حرجًا بشكل متزايد.
كل تبرع مهم، وكذلك نشر الكلمة عبر الشبكات الاجتماعية.
شكرا جزيلا نيابة عن عائلة موسى!
[DEUTSCH/ German version]
Lest Mohammeds Geschichte in seinen eigenen Worten hier in der Taz vom 13.04.2024:
Hallo, ich bin Laura und ich sammle gemeinsam mit Kommilitoninnen für einen ehemaligen Kommilitonen von uns, namens Dr. Mohammend Mousa aus Gaza, Spenden. Er musste unser Studienprogramm frühzeitig verlassen, weil sich der Zustand seines Sohnes in Gaza drastisch verschlechtert hat und dringend am Kopf operiert werde musste. Sein Sohn Omer, gerade 5 Jahre alt, war in einer Spezialklinik in Israel in Behandlung bis am 07.10.23 der Konflikt eskaliert ist und für die Familie Mousa mit vier Kindern nichts mehr wie vorher war. Ihr Haus wurde von Bomben dem Erdboden gleich gemacht und die Familie notevakuiert. Sie leben nun in einem Zelt in extrem prekären Umständen ohne Zugang zu sauberem Wasser, adäquaten Sanitäranlagen. Es gibt einem rasanten Anstieg an infektiösen Krankheiten.
Die Behandlung von Omer konnte nicht fortgesetzt werden, er hat inzwischen starke Schmerzen und kann kaum noch hören. Omer, seine drei Geschwister und die Eltern müssen dringend aus Gaza raus, wo man aktuell nirgendwo in Sicherheit ist und es an medizinischer Versorgung mangelt.
Wir wollen Mohammed und seiner Familie helfen aus Gaza nach Ägypten zu kommen, wo vor allem Omer, die dringend benötigte medizinische Versorgung erhalten kann.
Wir wollen das Geld so schnell wie möglich zusammen bekommen, da Omers Situation zunehmend kritischer wird.
Jede Spende zählt sowie das Verbreiten unseres Spendenaufrufs über die sozialen Netzwerke.
Herzlichen Dank im Namen der Familie Mousa!
Fundraising team (2)
Laura-Alina Fabich
Organizer
Oldenburg, Niedersachsen
Sarker Mohammad Nasrullah
Team member