Help evacuate my family in Gaza
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I would have never thought we would reach this point. My uncles and cousins used to be a happy family of 2 sisters and 2 brothers. They are joined by our eldest auntie, who they have always taken care of. She is 75 years old and has a very poor health, she can barely walk and needs treatment. My aunt is hypertensive, she hasn’t been on follow-up for more than four months now and hasn’t been on her appropriate medications. This puts her at high risk for complications. She has osteoarthritis and can barely walk. Just before the war on Gaza, doctors advised her to go for knee replacement surgery. At this point in time her operation is urgent. What exacerbates her condition is that she has a hearing difficulty which makes it hard for us to communicate with her and advise her on her condition. And I feel so powerless when I think she has to sleep on the floor (see the picture).
This situation is only worsening her health condition and I feel we are slowly losing her. Their big brother, my cousin, is now stuck in Egypt.
They have been displaced 3 times already looking for safety but there's no safety in the Gaza Strip.
Their house was partly destroyed and they don't know if one day they will be able to return and live in it or not...
We got these photos of their house in Gaza city:
And this is the destruction of their neighbourhood:
They have a terrible life full of fear of losing their lives or the life of someone they love. The prices of basic products have increased up to 10 times in the last three months. There's no food, no water. They are hungry, they get ill very often due to the cold and unhealthy water.
They face destruction, and the constant sound of missiles and tanks. My auntie told me the following very recently, "I feel frightened one day, if l go back to Gaza, l won't recognise my house, or the way to it, and if that happened, how I can go on with my life with this experience and without many of my friends and relatives who died during this horrible war. And whether I'll still be alive after it finishes".
I believe there's something I can do for them which is help them evacuate the Gaza Strip and find a normal and safe life in Egypt. My auntie, the old one, would get the treatment she needs and surgery, and my three cousins, who are in their late teens and early twenties, can carry on with their lives and studies - they deserve to have a future! And their future depends on what they do now, the education they receive now. And my lovely uncle and auntie would finally have some ease of mind seeing their children and my auntie alive and safe.
This is how we want to use the money: €5,000 to flee Gaza for each one of them (they are six now living in Rafah, Gaza). This will allow paying the crossing fees.
I really wish for them the best, to see them alive, not frightened and in a safe and warm house.
Organizer
Samira Shaban Pina
Organizer
Barcelona, CT