<div><strong>I am Hashem Ziyad Safi - I live in Gaza, a medical student at IUG, and my dream is to become a skilled doctor and serve my country</strong>. I was half way through my medical studies before this devastating war began, shattering all my hopes and dreams. 
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<div> <strong>We are a family consisting of 6 people</strong> - Mom, Dad, me, 2 brothers - Ahmed and Abdullah, my younger sister Misk, 
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<div> ‏<strong>Before the war, we really lived a beautiful life. We had our dreams, our goals, our home, and a wonderful life, but everything is truly over now</strong>. 
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<li> <strong>Ahmed</strong> was in his last year of high school and loves video games - he used to be introverted and youthful, but this war has forced him to become a man. 
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<li> <strong>Misk</strong> is in middle school, she loves reading, reciting, cooking, and writing - we admire her for spending her time in the war still reading as much as she can. 
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<li> <strong>Abdullah</strong>, my youngest brother, is just a child - he cannot understand the horrors we are enduring and is struggling with severe depression.
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<li> <strong>And I</strong> was passionately studying medicine, so eager to achieve my dream… ‏One day, 
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<div><strong>we still hope to recover these dreams and fulfill our ambitions once we reach safety and can recover from the horrible ailments we suffer from this war. But we have been forced to start our lives over again from scratch. </strong>
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<div><strong>We hope to evacuate together as a family, get the necessary medical care as soon as possible, and start a new life in Egypt away from this violence and horror. The registration fee for evacuation is 5000$ per adult and 2500$ per child</strong>
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<div><strong>We are raising $54,000 USD to evacuate together as a family, receive urgently needed medical care, and start a new life in Egypt away from this violence and horror</strong>
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<div>The funds raised will be used for the following:
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<li><strong>$25,000</strong> to evacuate me (Hashem), my parents, and my 3 younger siblings
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<li>•	<strong>$11,500</strong> to cover costs when we arrive in Egypt - including medical care, food, and housing
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<li><strong>	• $5,000</strong> to cover transaction, withdrawal, transfer, and conversion fees and taxes ‏
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<div><strong>Any amount that you can donate to support us (even $5 or $10) is highly appreciated and brings us one step closer to the life of peace and safety we desperately seek</strong>. If you cannot donate, please consider sharing this page with others or engaging with our social media content <strong>(@hashem_saf125</strong>, @<strong>mehvs</strong>_, and @<strong>robinsabeen</strong> on Instagram)
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<div><strong>. ‏Thank you so much for your support! Your contributions give us hope and help us feel like there is still some humanity in this unjust world. </strong>
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<div><strong> There is an even more urgent need for us to evacuate due to health issues that are plaguing several members of my family.</strong>
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<div> My mother and two younger brothers have contracted Hepatitis and jaundice from the contaminated drinking water here in Gaza and we have been struggling to treat them from the room we are staying in, without adequate medicine and unable to isolate from them. In addition, I have always struggled with respiratory issues, but they have become very severe during the war due to all the smoke and debris constantly in the air from non-stop bombing. I <strong>require an operation and treatments that I cannot receive in Gaza because of the collapsed healthcare system</strong>. I must be evacuated and treated abroad, which increases the costs my family will face when we reach Egypt, as I will have to have at least one operation to discover what the cause of the disease is and likely more to try to treat it. 
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<div> <strong>This is on top of all that we have already been through in this horrible war, including being displaced more than five times</strong>. At first, we believed that it was a war like any of the previous wars we had lived through, and it would end in a matter of days and life would return to normal. However, we were all shocked by the insanity we've been through so far and how this war was unlike any other and has ended life in Gaza as we knew it. For the first few days, we held our ground in Gaza until we were forced to evacuate to the south, thinking that it would be "safe." Not long after that, we figured out that even in the south, the war was completely destructive, and there was literally no safe place in Gaza. ‎‏
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<div>A few days after our first evacuation, we received the news that the university where I study has been completely destroyed and that education in Gaza has become impossible. A few days later, we also received the news that the house in which we lived our whole lives had been destroyed. After all we had been through, late last year, we were forced once again to evacuate to Rafah despite having no place or shelter to move to. <strong>With severe shortages in food, fuel, electricity, and water and the presence of horrible diseases and no medical treatment, life is truly impossible. </strong>
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<div> We were blessed to make it out of Rafah safely in May when the ground invasion began - our 6th time being displaced in this war, <strong>but we are still living in constant fear as the air strikes, phosphorus bombs, and smoke bombs get closer and closer to the area where we are sheltering each day. </strong>
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<div><strong> You have to see what the people look like here in Gaza. We have lost the meaning of life and everything.</strong> The children are dying, they have lost life and everything. We do need a lot of time to recover from all of this, and the disaster is that the nightmare continues and has not ended. There are always obstacles and we just have to look forward. It’s really tiring, and now with education and everything destroyed, I have to forget everything that happened and focus on rebuilding my future. This is really very tiring. It takes a lot of mental health. But I am forced to keep going. If I fall and look behind me, I will lose everything. My family depends on me a lot as the eldest son, and there are many responsibilities that I was assigned to and I have borne since my childhood, so we are forced to move forward and not give in to despair. 
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<div><strong> It is my goal that I will create a better future for myself, and I will strive to achieve that. I will truly try to change all the injustice and torment that we were subjected to, and I will use all that energy to develop myself, learn from that life, and succeed in the most difficult circumstances.</strong>
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<div><strong> Please do whatever you can to help me save my family and start a new life far away from all this chaos and destruction.</strong>
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