Hello, I am Hosni Al-Mashharawi, head of a family of 4 individuals, and I hold a master’s degree in computing and information systems.

On October 7, since the beginning of the fierce war on the Gaza Strip, the sounds of explosions have not subsided, and death is spreading everywhere, and there is hardly a home that is devoid of the smell of death.

We were forcefully expelled from our home ever since, for fear of bombing, and we have not returned to it until now. We were displaced five times from several areas that were repeatedly bombed, and our moral and material losses were heavy.

My eldest son, Qasim, who is four years old, has not completed a single month in the kindergarten, which was destroyed by the war, like the rest of the kindergartens and other educational facilities, and my youngest son, Muhammad, who is two years old, is terrified by the sounds of daily explosions and who grew up during this period in which he learned to talk and speak. In addition to the deterioration of my children’s health condition from time to time due to malnutrition, pollution, and fear of continuous indiscriminate bombing. My wife, Lama, also suffered a health setback during this period, as a result of which she remained in the hospital for a week due to fear, malnutrition, and the spread of epidemic diseases far away from our children.

My parents and my brothers and sisters came out from under the fire through the safe passage that the occupation claimed was safe. I have 2 brothers and 4 sisters they were subjected to interrogation, and my father was imprisoned for two weeks, during which he was subjected to interrogation and torture. He suffers from chronic diseases, “blood pressure and diabetes.” In addition to the occupation's destruction of his car, which was less than a year old and which he bought and we have not yet finished paying the installments for it.

The war divided my family, while a large part of my family is in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. My middle sister, “Shahd,” remained in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and in this war she gave birth to her daughter, whom we have not seen to this day since last October.

Exiting Gaza has become very difficult because exit requires paying very high sums of money to the Egyptian side as a permit to enter Egyptian territory. Men and women must be paid an amount of $5,000, and children must be paid $2,500 for each child, in addition to the website commission of 2.9% + monthly expenses for each person amounting to $4000 for living . Without that, we will remain here, fleeing from death to death.