Help the Allahawani family escape genocide

“We are not safe, and we are not okay.”

Hossni Salama and Palestine Solidarity Kamloops are fundraising to evacuate 21 family members, 13 of whom are children, from Gaza and the horrors of the crisis created there by Israel. Please help fund their resettlement with their Canadian relatives in British Columbia, through the federal government’s Gaza Family Reunification Program.

We wonder every day if they will survive another day, and that’s why we’re turning to our community for urgent help.

For more than 100 winter days, these children and their families have been deprived of their most basic rights: food, water, shelter, healthcare, education, and security. Basic public services in Gaza are no longer available. The families’ houses are demolished. They’ re running--exhausted and carrying children--from one place to another, from house to tent, tent to house, they’ve had to keep running. They’re hungry, weakened, and are becoming more and more vulnerable to disease as they struggle in unhygienic conditions.

They are looking for a safe place where there is no safety, only unimaginable trauma.

Donations will be used to secure housing, childcare, and other basic necessities while these families find work and schools. We are also anticipating legal and medical costs to obtaining emergency visas and travel, as they were able to rescue some basic identification papers and little else.

Funds raised here would be critical to giving these families a chance at life in our safe, prosperous, and caring community.

Imagine being a parent in these conditions.

These families—these children—have repeatedly witnessed horrific scenes of war, hunger, and terror. The ceaseless sounds of bombing are depriving them of sleep, rest, and the last drops of their sanity. Where they used to smell grape leaves, they’re surrounded by the smell of death. They need, and deserve, to be evacuated to safety.

One family member says: “the horror we are experiencing, the pain and sadness of losing so many of our family members, so many friends and classmates… I make a mental list of my friends' whereabouts, based on our last contact. Some in the North and others in the South, we are in the middle of a sea of ​​anxiety and pain.

There is no time to mourn anyone or anything, and barely enough time to check on the survivors.”

The need and urgency are huge, and we’re so grateful for the community support we need to get these families out of danger and reunited with their relatives here in Canada