My name is Massimo Scali. I’m an Olympic figure skater, originally from Italy and now an American citizen living in California.

Over the past two years, since the beginning of the assault on Gaza, I’ve grown close to two young men living there.

What’s happening in Gaza is beyond words. A man-made famine is killing innocent people. Journalists, doctors, paramedics, and aid workers are being targeted. Hospitals, schools, churches, and homes have been destroyed. Children are dying. Families are being erased.

But for me, this isn’t just something I see online — I hear it every single day.

I have two close friends in Gaza — Adam Abu Rock, who lives with a family of seven, including a young sister, and Ahmed Abu Rida, who lives with a family of six, including an elderly grandmother.

They message me with stories, pictures, and videos that I can barely read or watch without breaking.

Stories of terror, starvation, and hopelessness. Stories of watching loved ones die. Stories of wanting to die themselves because the pain has become unbearable.

They cry in voice notes.

They send photos of ruins that used to be homes.

They ask for help — and I try.

I’ve been sending them money for food and medicine, because they’re too afraid to go to the Israeli-American “aid centers,” where Palestinians are often shot and killed just for trying to survive.

Aid isn’t just inaccessible — it’s a death sentence.

They’re forced to choose between dying waiting or dying trying.

I also receive countless messages from other families in Gaza, begging for help. Pleading with me not to let their children die. The suffering they describe is excruciating. It’s inhuman.

This is Israeli terror — systemic, relentless, and intentional.

I’m doing what I can. But I can’t sustain it alone.

That’s why I’m asking — please help me help them.

If you can donate, even a few dollars can mean the difference between life and death.

If Western politicians won’t act, we are their only voice.

We are the only power they have left.

Let’s not fail them like the world already has.