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Emergency: help us rescue ourselves and our family

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We are Mohammed and Aya, an engaged couple who reluctantly created this donation campaign for the sake of our survival. In our worst nightmares, we never imagined we would need to ask for this. With your donations, we hope we can rescue ourselves, our family, and rebuild our lives.

Here is just part of our story: Mohammed is a data engineer, who was building his career after shifting from electrical engineering. He had just started a Data Science Program with Correlation One before the war began. I, Aya, am a business grad who has been working as a communications coordinator for different agencies. We met while working at Gaza Sky Geeks, a community-driven and Google backed tech hub helping thousands of young people and entrepreneurs in Palestine and fell in love!


We were going to get married in February at Mohammed’s home that is now destroyed, like so many of the dreams we had for our future and lives together in Gaza. In the early days of the war, I left my home in the north in search of safety in the south. I have had to flee and relocate three times since. Mohammed decided to stay in the north of Gaza with his family. We had intermittent contact for two months. One day, his sister called me telling me that he was arrested by the IDF with three other family members, as I collapsed in tears. We went 20 days without any contact. 20 days I spent in desperation, devoid of Mohammed’s calm voice, 20 days of wondering if he was alive. For Mohammed, it was 20 days without speaking to me, 20 days of enduring the harshest forms of torture and humiliation through beating, cursing, and stripping. 20 days where we were never absent from each other’s minds.



Finally, Mohammed was released in the south and reunited with me in Rafah, but his family is still in the north suffering from famine— his mother, his sister Noor, and our darling Farah! He does not have his mother's embrace in the morning or his sister's joyous laughter in the middle of these bad days.


We are currently seeking shelter in a zoo, living in a tent and finding whatever food and supplies we can to survive through the day. We hope to get married and rebuild our life, we still committed to our work in Gaza as Emergency employees in Humanitarian Aid and Relief, also we are thinking we must evacuate our families to Egypt to find a safe place.


We have endured months of violence, loss, grief, torture, fear. We have tasted every kind of humiliation that a human can imagine. And yet, we have not lost our love for each other. With all that we’re facing, we also haven’t lost our hope in our community, in Gaza, in you, your kindness, and support. It is all we can ask for.

Our GoFundMe is our gateway out of this cruelty. This is our humble and desperate request for your support to help us reach our goal of 35K. These funds will help us:

  • Ease the immediate burden of displacement and help our family navigate the difficulties caused by this war.
  • Find a safe and secure haven for us to finally get married.
  • Evacuate our family to find safety.

Much love and gratitude

Donations 

  • Anonymous
    • €2,400
    • 6 mos
  • MK Newman
    • €90
    • 6 mos
  • Sophia Newman
    • €10
    • 6 mos
  • Anonymous
    • €20
    • 6 mos
  • Kelsey Nix
    • €25
    • 6 mos

Fundraising team (2)

Ayah Jomaa
Organizer
Berlin, Berlin
Ishak Yousef Moshtaha
Beneficiary
Kate Newman
Team member

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