
Help get my friend's family evacuated from Gaza
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Hello, My Name is Mohamed, I am a Palestinian, who lives studies and works in Germany, and last week I was approached by my friend and neighbour in the Gaza strip to help get him and his family out of Gaza, and that's why I eventually decided to reach out to you guys to help me on with this humanitarian mission.
Until October 7th, my friend Mohammed Abu Hamad, 34, his wife Alaa, his beautiful twin daughters Sara and Sanaa, 8, and his little cute son Ali, 3, were living in their newly built rural House in our small agricultural town of Abasan Al-Kabira.



Mohammed was an accountant and his wife a kindergarten teacher, they both worked very hard to build their dream home, buy their first car, provide for their three beautiful kids, see them grow and contribute to the bright future of Palestine, but suddenly all these dreams were shattered.


On October 7th, the war erupted followed by multiple evacuation orders and as you all have seen on news outlets, relentless and horrific bombardment, which has caused most people in our town including Mohammed's family to leave on October 9th and evacuate to schools and UNRWA shelters in Kahn Younis.
They remained there in dire circumstances and terrific atmosphere for kids where one has to sleep in one classroom with 50 other people and need to wait in a line of 100 to get to the bathroom and can use the shower only once a week, and they endured all of this suffering hoping that the war would be over soon and they will be able to return to Abasan and the hopes where high when a temporary ceasefire and hostage exchange deal was reached on November 24th but the deal fell apart on December 1st as well as the hopes to get back home.
on December 3rd, Israel launched a ground invasion into Khan Younis destroying everything in sight and Mohammed's family was forced to flee to Al Mawasi and took shelter in a University turned into a camp for displaced people under the same horrible conditions of the school in Khan Younis, but that didn't last long, as when it started raining heavily, the floods washed away most of the tents and it was disastrous for the family.
The ground offensive continued and expanded day after day and no place in Khan Younis was safe so the family had to leave and head towards Rafah were the bombardment was less intense, all for the sake of the kids.
He told me some heart breaking stories of his kids and their suffering that I would like, for instance, he once noticed that one of his daughters tends to be very sleepy and when asked about it she replies: "when we are asleep we wouldn't feel the bomb falling on our heads and our death would be painless". In another heart breaking moment little Ali tells his Father that: "I would love to die on my bed with my toys around me not in a tent". No human being should be in such a traumatic experience, let alone kids.
Now that that the bombing of Rafah intensifies and armoured vehicles are advancing into our hometown under heavy artillery and fire cover which would mean that their house is most likely destroyed, the situation is becoming more and more unbearable for the kids, and that's why I ultimately decided to seek your help.
Our mission now is to get the family out of Gaza into safety in Egypt and help them as much as possible through the lengthy and very expensive Journey of getting out of Gaza.
If we manage to reach the fundraiser's goal of 30K€ the money will be distributed as Follows:
1. Fees to have their names put on the departure list => 5000x5 = 25000€ (sounds crazy but that's the bitter truth)
2. Travel and Egyptian Visa fees => 1000€
3. Hotel fees/Rent for a specific period of time => 2000€
4. Expenses for the kids and the family until a plan is figured out => 3000€
5. Potential GoFundMe and Western Union fees => 1000€
I'm counting on you guys to make this come true and help secure a better future for the kids and whole family and end end this traumatic experience for them while we can and before it's too late.
Peace and Love
Mohamed
Organizer
Mohamed Abudraz
Organizer
Viersen, Nordrhein-Westfalen