Help Engineer Alaa and his family evacuate from Gaza

I am Engineer Alaa El-Din Zaqout, I have a Master's degree in . I lost my home, my car, my engineering office, and all my various sources of income.

My wife is also an architect , We established an engineering office, My ambition was to establish a construction contracting company, but the war destroyed what existed.

I built a beautiful house after long suffering and patience, and then I bought a car that did not complete a year and was destroyed. I saw my twin daughters Alma and Lama after many years of suffering and fatigue. I have attached pictures of Alma and Lama arriving in full, and I will attach pictures and a video of my entire story.

My dream was to complete my doctorate studies in engineering, but the war came to destroy all my dreams that I was aiming for.

Additionally, we are facing acute financial strain due to the loss of income for over nine months as a result of the conflict. This has left us grappling with the stark realities of destitution, struggling to meet even the most basic needs for survival.

The arrival of Alma and Lama came after years of marriage and after long suffering that God gave us. One of the goals of this campaign is to protect my beautiful twins, whom I struggled to conceive and before becoming pregnant with them. I had several abortions before becoming pregnant with them, until I became pregnant with them, and that was like pregnancy. Very difficult. My doctor recommended that I take subcutaneous injections of Clexane daily until delivery, in addition to stabilizers and vitamins. I was unable to do anything due to pregnancy fatigue and its symptoms, constant vomiting and dizziness, until I had to stay in the hospital for several days and take nutritional fluids intravenously due to dehydration and high levels of creatinine in the blood, so that, God willing, the pregnancy would continue. The surprise was that they were twins. I endured the fatigue and inability. I had to eat and drink due to high fever, and unlike all pregnant women, my weight began to decrease instead of increasing as usual, when I went to the hospital to schedule my delivery, so the doctors had to transfer me to the operating room and perform a cesarean section on me after the doctor was surprised that the umbilical cord was wrapped around It almost harmed the fetuses, so they were able to save them quickly, and thank God they were saved and I became a mother for the first time. I have beautiful twin girls and I am afraid of any harm that might happen to them.

Medical reports from doctors in Gaza and Hala Fertility Center

After long suffering, and thanks to God, the twins Alma and Lama came, and our lives changed, and we lived beautiful days.

1_ The Displacement

The first suffering began after the army ordered the evacuation of the northern Gaza area. We were forced to leave our homes and head south to Rafah after we were asked to evacuate. We lived in northern Gaza, specifically in the Jabalia camp, which was destroyed and its surroundings.

2- The second disaster was the bombing and destruction of my house, my car, my workplace, and everything I owned

After many years of fatigue and hard work, like any ambitious person, who aspires to settle in a beautiful, safe house, a car to help me work and move, and an engineering office in which I used to work, suddenly the disaster destroyed everything I owned, and I and my beautiful twin daughters, Alma and Lama, were left without any shelter to shelter us. Of the dangers of time, as there will never come a more difficult time and time than this time and the catastrophe that we are experiencing, and we have no ability to do so and no guilt.

We evacuated our home with only a small bag of clothes before it got bombed and totally burned. So technically, YES, we lost EVERYTHING, from the biggest to the smallest little detail.

My family, home , My car

Before the war

After the war

MY CAR

My car after the last update (bodywork, full paint, and new wheels for the car alone cost $3,000, and this update was only three weeks before the war).

These are pictures of my memories that I cry over every day with my twin daughters, Alma and Lama, in my house that was destroyed. I have attached a video below of the house as it is destroyed.

Video of the house after the destruction YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL_8yRTF9QA

3-Escaping death twice And Financial Struggles in Rafah

After being displaced to Rafah, we faced high expenses due to the blockade imposed on Gaza. Prices soared, and I lost a significant amount of money. We experienced terrible situations that I never thought I would go through with my kids.

We lost our home and our parents' homes. We escaped death many times, experienced hunger, and lacked medicine. I lost my job and the income that my children and I depended on. We were absolutely terrorized, feeling abandoned and hopeless at all times.

The price of a bag of Pampers for my children is $70, and all the prices are double, as I spent the remaining money I had on very expensive household expenses, and at the same time my heart and soul were there in my destroyed house, my destroyed car, and my destroyed workplace. What will I do in all these losses and how will I build my life from new !!!!

4-My Education , My life's dream and the goal I always dreamed of.

I studied a master's degree in civil engineering, specializing in engineering project management, to develop myself and my work in tenders and contracting. I deposited approximately $7,000, with each hour of study at the Islamic University of Gaza costing $100. I completed my studies, received my master's degree, and paid all the required fees just three days before October 7th.

I was aspiring to obtain a doctorate in engineering after obtaining a master’s degree, and this is my life’s dream, but my ambition suddenly disappeared after the destruction of everything I owned, and I did not have any money left to provide for my twin children with their daily needs. So how will I obtain my life’s dream, which is a doctorate in engineering?

I also work in the field of freelance design. I have been diligent in working in many fields, but now I have no source of income, and I am struggling to get any source of income currently, due to the loss of my laptop and everything I own in my apartment. I have attached a video, unfortunately.

Certificate of obtaining a master's degree in engineering

The first certificate is a Bachelor of Engineering, and the other certificate is a course in concrete structure design, which is the strongest certificate in the field of construction.

This is a certificate of my work as a volunteer in the engineering club to help needy students who cannot afford to buy books and college supplies. The other certificate is a certificate of a security and safety course, and I was chosen as you can see for this course to rebuild Gaza in the previous war

- Membership card of the Engineers Syndicate, North Gaza Branch, which is the only membership recognized for the engineer AND My car driving license

5-Alaa worked in the engineering office and a small company that distributed meals to cancer patients and psychiatric patients (a new disaster)

I owned a small contracting company where I distributed meals and necessary nutrition to cancer patients in the Turkish Friendship Hospital and to psychiatric patients. The kitchen or distribution headquarters was inside Al-Shifa Hospital. With the storming of the hospital, my goods were destroyed, and the equipment and machines for preparing food were ruined.

he lost food equipment and goods equivalent to $10,000.

My car was also destroyed, as shown in the pictures. I employed several people in my company and was responsible for their families. Therefore, we seek support to help these families who lost their jobs due to the war and the destruction of Al-Shifa Hospital.

Suffering in war, eating, drinking and living

The heavy losses of war

We lost something that money will never replace. We lost our memories, our dignity, and our decent life, as we began to seek only water and food for our children, without any source of income.

The losses of the Alaa family were as follows. I will start with the thing that oppressed us and mentioned the life within us, which is the house, the house of the twins Alma and Lama, which is equivalent to 40 thousand dollars.

$10,000 in kitchen equipment and goods that I owned From my workplace.

$12,000 My private car was destroyed

3 thousand dollars, my engineering office.

There are high costs of war due to these obscene prices that cannot be estimated.

That is, approximately 65 thousand dollars, but I did not lose hope because there are many people in the world who love life and the humanity that unites us and brings us together.

If I wanted to talk about my loss in detail and precisely, I would reach numbers that I cannot count now, and it would reach $200,000 because there are checks that have not been paid due to the war and other losses in my food business.

Can you fathom the pain of losing your home, your livelihood, and the fruits of a lifetime's labor in the blink of an eye? It is a crushing blow that defies comprehension, a wound that cuts to the core of our existence.

Yet, in the midst of this darkness, a glimmer of light shines through - your unwavering support. With your generosity, we can embark on a new chapter in Alaa & Dana journey towards healing and restoration. Together, we will rebuild not only his life but the lives of his cherished family. Through your support and kindness, we can offer Alma and Lama a future free from the shadows of their past, a chance at a life filled with dignity and hope.

Our fundraising efforts are aimed at achieving these main objectives:

evacuation from Gaza.

* Providing essential food and drink items to sustain the family's basic needs, as they are currently unable to work due to the challenging economic situation exacerbated by the blockade and conflict in Gaza.

Compensating for the countless large material losses due to the war, whether it be my home, my car, my engineering office, my private company, and my kitchen for supplying meals

My friends apologized for the amount of photos and videos I attached, but I do not think that anyone in the GFM campaign attached, like me, proof of my university major, master’s and bachelor’s, my car license, my house in detail before and after, my children Lama and Lama, the various places of displacement, and my workplace in the kitchen that serves... Meals for the sick, and medical reports on the onset of my pain and Lama after many years. I will attach my WhatsApp number for you to contact me if you want more and more pictures and videos of my suffering. Thank you (+972 59-814-1400)

Please, I trust your humanity. What I lost was 8 years of continuous work, and 8 years of not sleeping in order to achieve what I have reached. I lost everything in a moment. This is a feeling that I do not wish anyone to feel.

Dearest regards,

The family of engineers Alaa and Dana.