Help Evacuate Abdel Fattah's Displaced Family

I’m Mohammed, fundraising on behalf of Abdel. Here is his story:

Hello, my name is Abdel Fattah, I'm Palestinian, and I live in Gaza, specifically in the city of Zahra. I'm an accountant and I'm 27 years old. I'm one of the survivors of several wars in the Gaza Strip, but I don't know if I will survive this war or not.

Currently, I have been displaced for the third time to the area of Deir al-Balah after leaving Zahra to Maghazi following the bombing of my house and my family's house, which is the only shelter we have for me and 10 other people, including my family, my wife, and my daughter who is less than a year old. We have been through three wars. I used to have a supermarket, which was my source of income, and it was the only source of income for my siblings. As for my family (my mother, father, Ibrahim, Mohammad, Shatha, her husband Zaid, her son Abdel Fattah, my wife Nermine, and my daughter Ayla), we woke up from our sleep to our sustenance and daily work until the date 10/7/2023, which changed the course of our lives and turned Gaza upside down, and turned our lives into hell completely, where all supplies and necessities of life were cut off, and we remained shocked in our homes, which were open to everyone, especially the displaced people from the northern area of the Gaza Strip.

We remained in this situation until the night of 19/10/2023, the cursed night that... we will never forget and we will continue to narrate it to our children. A resident of the city received a call requesting immediate evacuation from the homes. Indeed, the evacuation took place, and it was directly after the evening prayer. When we evacuated, we took nothing from our homes except to save our lives because the evacuation time was very short, and the evacuation was to a wide and open square, and we spent the night on the street while our homes collapsed before our eyes. We could do nothing but fear, which did not prevent us from the sound of the explosions and bombs hitting our homes. They were heavy bombs weighing about 3 tons, and the sound was very terrifying, and our children were afraid. The next day, after the bombing of our homes ended, we went to our homes and found them ashes on the ground. We went to the supermarket and found ashes in the hallway. Everyone was in great shock, so we fled to the Maghazi area to UNRWA shelters, and we stayed there until we were subjected to bombing and shelling. There were talks about a ground invasion into the Maghazi area, so we stayed.

About a month and a half later, we moved to the Deir al-Balah area to spread out in tents and eat in the extreme heat and cold without any winter clothes or any type of blankets for heating. And other necessities of life such as food and drink were not available. I remember one day we stood in line to fill water from 8 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon just to fill a pitcher of drinking water. We also stood in line to get bread and also in line to get flour. We cooked on wood and fire. There was no cooking gas. Our eyes were affected by pain, heat, and sensitivity, and our chests were affected by the smoke from cooking. When we thought about leaving Gaza, we were surprised by the cost of coordination to preserve your lives and leave Gaza. Its price was $5000, and the price was continuously increasing. Therefore, I am writing to you on behalf of my family because I fear that the war will steal one of my family members, as it stole our home and our source of livelihood. We ask for your help, even if it's just by reading our story and praying for us. Greetings to all of you, Abdel Fattah Abu Al-Judyan.

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All donations will directly aid Abdel’s displaced family

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