Crammed together like heaps of flesh in tents that feel like scorching ovens, our days have regressed to a more degraded version of those of the earliest humans. From morning till night, we search for the same things Abel and Cain sought to survive: water, food, and fire. We endure long hours in queues to get a meager amount of water, and the food consists of old, low-quality canned goods. We sleep and wake to the sounds of savage airplanes, unsure of where they will strike next or who among us will be turned into scattered remains. Here in Gaza, we are living the worst existence humanity has known since its very beginning, You are our only hope for escaping Gaza and its oppression. Please help my siblings and me find a safe place to live💔🇵🇸
Hello👋
Please take a moment to read my story.
I am Heba Al-Dahdouh. I currently live in the completely destroyed city of Gaza. Since the war on Gaza began on 7/1/2024, my family- my father Nasif, my mother Asmaa, and my siblings Khaled, Ahmad, Muhammad, and Malak-have been living in constant fear, crying, and suffering due to shrapnel, shells, and bullets.
We have no food, no electricity, no cooking gas, no schools, no homes, no cleaning supplies, and no clothes. My school has been bombed, and my brother Khaled's university is now rubble, depriving us all of education. The war has forced us to live in displacement centers, which are just tents unsuitable for living, especially in winter.
Every day we live death, terror, and panic a thousand times because of the ongoing bombardment of my city. The war has killed more than 50 of my relatives and neighbors. At the start of the war, we sought refuge at my aunt's house, . Imagine: we have survived imminent death more than 20 times and have been displaced among shelters more than 13 times. My siblings and I have suffered from many illnesses due to malnutrition, and we need medication continuously.
If we stay in Gaza, we might lose our lives. Recently, we have been seriously considering leaving Gaza for a safe place. However, travel costs are extremely high. We need over $50,000 to leave Gaza. Due to exorbitant prices, rampant unemployment, lack of security, the ongoing siege, and relentless bombardment, we have lost all our money. How can we live in such insecurity, with constant shelling and shrapnel flying above us? Dear compassionate friends around the world,
With your generous donations, even if small, you can save 7 people from imminent death, allowing us to start a life outside Gaza filled with love, peace, and hope.
With my warmest regards from the city of Gaza,
Heba Al-Dahdouh.
more noah art to tide yall while i craft something so epic it will blow your socks off ☺️
On October 21, 2023, twenty days after the start of the war on Gaza, and as things were worsening, Alaa's father went to charge the battery that powered the LED lights for Alaa's family. With electricity cut off throughout Gaza, Hamza Al-Alkhodary, Alaa's father, went to charge the battery using a solar power panel owned by one of his relatives. He went out on that day and never returned because the house adjacent to the one where Alaa's father was had been bombed. By the way, his father had been battling cancer for three years. When he was injured in this incident, he was killed instantly because the injury was directly to his head. Here, Noor became fatherless, and Alaa also became fatherless.😭
Entire bloodlines have indeed been erased across Palestine since the beginning of the genocide. Once evacuated to Egypt, Alaa and I will be able to resume our professional lives and help the rest of our families.
During the war, I experienced a million awful feelings.
I felt the loss of my friends, the sense of heartbreak, the hunger and thirst, the feeling of being rescued from death, the shiver of fear, the months of waiting, the loss of your hard work, toil, and dreams, the displacement, the feeling of running in the middle of the night from one place to another due to an evacuation order, the illness and malnutrition, the feeling of sleeping on the floor in the hospital while everyone passes over you because there's no bed to sleep on, the constant thinking, the sense of alienation in your own country, the attachment to places and people and then leaving them, the disappointment, the queues, and more.
I overcame all of them and am content so that God may be pleased with me.
But the heat and living in a tent, I swear I cannot bear it.
How can I explain to you the harshness of everything that is happening?🙁
noah 😛 still experimenting with how i want to draw him but i am liking this 😁
Hi everyone!
Thank you so much for helping to circulate the last post I made. Several of those fundraisers received donations since then, which is amazing!
A few more blogs reached out to me, and I wanted to share their links; if you have the means, please consider checking out these fundraisers and donating!
Some of these are close to meeting their goals!
Amounts raised current as of August 31, 2024.
@zinaanqar @yaminfamily || https://gofund.me/35c30c67 55,108 / 59,000 EUR
@yasermohammad || https://gofund.me/e7c7528a 19,370 / 35,000 EUR
@children-gaza || https://gofund.me/6b57458c 7,224 / 15,000 EUR
@hsalem-2 || https://gofund.me/7abadb80 2,723 / 5,000 EUR
@majedgaza1 || https://gofund.me/2b8a25aa 1,833 / 70,000 USD
@mahmoud91hilles || https://gofund.me/cef28015 187 / 50,000 EUR
@asmaamajed2 || https://gofund.me/51ab1341 5,022 / 50,000 USD
@abdalkareemfathi || https://gofund.me/1cf408ed 5 / 43,000 EUR
@savepalestineinfamily19 || https://gofund.me/68c086c2 5,702 / 50,000 EUR
@anasalshrafa || https://gofund.me/f6e9cad8 852 / 50,000 EUR
@ali-jendia-family || https://gofund.me/512d241c 553 / 550,000 SEK
@drfarhatblog || https://gofund.me/e9f9ce20 5,9017 / 29,500 USD
@save-ahmed-family1 || https://gofund.me/d32acc37 1,323 / 20,000 EUR
@a-ss-123 || https://gofund.me/d32acc37 1,323 / 20,000 EUR
@ahmednser || https://gofund.me/2624cdcc 45 / 100,000 EUR
@majedgaza1 || https://gofund.me/f489e577 1,833 / 70,000 USD
doodles i did of danny in school ^^