Help save baby Taim's life!

Help save Taim’s life!

My name is Taim Ibrahim, a Palestinian child from Gaza. I am one year and eight months old. I was born under difficult circumstances, as my mother experienced complications during childbirth, which caused me to suffer from a lack of oxygen. As a result, I was placed in an incubator, but the effects were more severe than we expected. I developed brain deposits, experienced developmental delays, and suffered from severe chest allergies and a weakened immune system.

Day by day, I grew older, and by the time I was six months old, my mother decided to take me to the doctor. He told her I needed continuous physical therapy sessions. My father worked day and night to provide for my treatment expenses, and we followed the sessions, hoping my condition would improve.

But then came that cursed day, the 7th of October. The next day, my family was forced to flee our home as the war escalated. We left with nothing. My treatment stopped, and my condition worsened day by day. We found ourselves living in schools alongside hundreds of displaced families. We slept on the ground, without mattresses, blankets, or enough food.

Winter came upon us with no warm clothes like other children around the world. After 25 days of siege on the schools, we had no food, water, or milk. I celebrated my first birthday amidst this brutal war, and the situation grew worse with every passing day.

Amidst this darkness, the day came when I lost my mother. She was martyred by a brutal Israeli bullet that struck her in the head. My mother is gone, leaving me and my brother without her care and love.

What was our fault? I never got to experience the joy of being with my mother. I didn’t see her much, and now, more than ever, I need her in my illness and my childhood. All I ask is for help to continue my treatment, so I can one day stand on my own feet like other children around the world. I want to live a normal life, to walk, to play, to experience my childhood as I should.

I hope my voice reaches those who can help me. My dream is simple: to live like a normal child and to feel the happiness I have been deprived of.