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Hazem and Yasmine once called Gaza home—a place where they laughed, dreamed, and built a life together. Today, they stand amid the ruins of that life. Their house is gone. Not a single brick remains. The neighborhood they knew—the bustling markets, the olive trees, the faces of neighbors—has vanished. War left only rubble, dust, and a chilling silence.
Their home before the war
They returned to nothing. No walls. No bed. No stove. No clothes but the threadbare layers clinging to their bodies in the freezing cold. Gaza’s winters are brutal, and without electricity, fuel, or even a proper tent, they huddle under a plastic sheet, their breath frosting in the air. Clean water is a myth. What little they find is polluted, forcing them to gamble their health with every sip. Food prices have skyrocketed: a single egg costs 2, a bag of rice 2, a bag of rice25. Hunger is their constant companion.
Shelter is a cruel joke. Even tents—flimsy, overcrowded, and exposed to bombs and rain—are impossible to secure. Families now pay $300 a month just to claim a patch of dirt for a tent, a sum far beyond Hazem and Yasmine’s reach. They sleep on frozen ground, their bodies aching, their hope fraying.
They are now refugees in their own land, their spirits as fragile as the tent that provides a meager shelter from harm.
Survival is a financial nightmare:
- Water: $10 for a single gallon of contaminated water—a day’s wage for most.
- Food: A week’s worth of lentils and flour costs $100.
- Medicine: Antibiotics are $50—unthinkable when they can’t afford bread.
- Communication: A lifeline turned luxury.
- - 30 buys a flicker of the internet.
- - 5 for a 10-minute phone call.
They ration these moments to beg for help.
Hazem, once an engineer, scavenges for scrap metal to sell. Yasmine, a teacher, begs for burnt bread. Their shoes are torn, their coats paper-thin. Illness stalks them: infections from dirty water, coughs from burning trash for warmth, wounds festering without antiseptics. They are running out of time.
The $20,000 Lifeline: What Your Support Provides
Every dollar you give fights to keep them alive:
- Shelter: $300/month for a tent space safe from floods and bombs.
- Water: $500/month for filters and clean drinking water to avoid cholera.
- Food: $600/month for flour, lentils, and canned beans—the bare minimum.
- Winter Survival: $1,000 for blankets, coats, and shoes to withstand the cold.
- Medicine: $400 for antibiotics, painkillers, and antiseptics.
- Communication: $200/month for internet and phone credit—their only way to cry for help.
Without this support, they will not survive the winter.
Your Donation = Immediate Rescue
- $15 buys one day of clean water for Hazem and Yasmine.
- $50 covers a week of unstable internet—their lifeline to the world.
- $100 feeds them for 10 days.
- $500 shelters their tent for six weeks.
This is not charity—it is emergency survival. Governments have failed them. Institutions are absent. You are their last hope.
By donating, you become the warmth in their freezing nights, the voice in their silence, the hand that pulls them back from the edge. Share their story. Give what you can. They have nothing left but us.
Time is running out. Please don’t look away.
Thank you for listening to their story. Thank you for considering their plight. Your kindness is the greatest gift they can receive.
Organizer
Mohammad Salah Khalaf
Organizer
New York, NY