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For more than a year, Ghada Abdulfattah has been providing The Christian Science Monitor readers with an on-the-ground view of the Israel-Hamas war. Ghada has been acting as The Monitor’s eyes, ears and heart in the Gaza Strip, writing stories of everyday people in unimaginable circumstances, all while navigating displacement in a hostile warzone.
In October 2024, she returned to her neighborhood in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza, to find that an Israeli military operation had reduced her family home to rubble.
“Fear gripped me tightly,” she wrote, about seeing the destroyed compound. “Then came the grief. I thought of all the memories held within those walls – the birthday parties, my brother’s dabke folk dances, quiet evenings, and shared meals. It was as if a piece of my soul was being torn to pieces.”
Ghada, her parents, five brothers, one sister, and 21 nieces and nephews are now officially homeless, part of the estimated 85% of Gaza residents who have been displaced since October 7, 2023. Israel’s strict limits on construction material entering Gaza mean it could take decades to rebuild. In the face of hyperinflation in a war economy, her family struggles to afford the limited available food for their daily meal. But your can help Ghada’s family.
This fundraiser, started by Ghada's Christian Science Monitor colleagues, aims to help her family rebuild their destroyed home.
Your donations will help Ghada’s family pay for construction materials to begin rebuilding their home while also paying for food and critical medical treatment to stay alive.
Read Ghada’s full, first-hand account here:
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2024/0903/gaza-home-destroyed-israel-hersh-funeral?src=shared
Read more about Ghada and her work for The Christian Science Monitor here:
Listen to Ghada discuss her humanity-focused storytelling in an episode of The Monitor’s Why We Wrote This podcast:
Any help you can provide, no matter the amount, will go far in supporting someone who has embodied The Monitor's mission "to injure no man, but to bless all mankind" under the most extreme hardships.
(This GoFundMe is being coordinated by CS Monitor Middle East correspondent and Ghada's colleague Taylor Luck https://www.csmonitor.com/About/People/Taylor-Luck)
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Taylor Luck
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