The situation in Gaza is terrible. The price of food , medicines and transport is extremely high due to the blocade. We are in contact with Ahmed for more than a year now and the situation is getting worst. Help is needed for every aspect of daily life, and to allow the family to flee from Gaza city and find a shelter in the south. Thank you for taking the time to read his testimony, and for whatever you will do to help.

Text written by Ahmed and his sister :

We carried only one bag on each person’s back, because it was forbidden to take more t with you and as long as we walked there was a lot of fear, terror, and humiliation from the occupation . They used to take young men and force them to take off their clothes and take them captive, And the situation that I will never forget is when they forced an old man to take off all his clothes and turn around in front of people, I felt the most about the difference and humiliation that the occupation allowed us to live. Then we continued walking, we reached Nuseirat, which is after Wadi Gaza. So, I was shocked by the life there and the people. It was really a second life. I was looking at the vegetables as if it was the first time I saw it. I saw the food, the people, and the children as if it were for the first time. It was as if I was in a cemetery and came to life. Then we got into a truck and went to my aunt’s house. We arrived at 5:30.We stayed for a month and a half at my aunt’s house, then we went to my grandfather’s house, then we deplacement to tent but wherever we go, we feel like strangers and do not belong to the place or environment we are in.

And a month ago we headed news that our house was stolen, and after a while we knew that the house was burned on a day that remains nothing but ash.

This war took many people, whom we love. My cousin and her entire family. my father’s cousin, his sons, and my mother’s friend’s son. Until this moment, We continued to flee after entering Rafah and spent 9 months living in a small shop where 7 people lived .Then we heard the news of the truce and went back to our burning house. We were very happy, although the occupation destroyed and burned our memories step by step, but this damned war has not ended yet, and the occupation has resumed its brutal coins and followed all kinds of torment and the politics of starvation, ignorance and siege from all aspects of lifeWe are exhausted psychologically and physically. We have lost all feelings of comfort, passion, stability, and security.

Now the occupation army intends to invade Gaza City and displace us from our homes to move to the south, but we have no place or shelter. Moreover, the costs of transporting the remaining furniture in the house are very high and the prices are exorbitant.

Will the story end?

Will we still be alive?

If we continue to live and are displaced, will we find another place to go?

Will we be the story or who will tell it?

We do not know.

I hope you can support us after hearing the story so that we can have a new opportunity to survive and a new life.