We urgently need your help to reunite the Azaiza family.

Yasmine and Mohammed are incredible individuals who have dedicated their lives to helping Palestinians in Gaza and creating more peace and stability in the region. Yasmine has worked in the water sector, securing clean drinking water and waste water treatment for the whole of Gaza. Mohammed has been an advocate for freedom of movement, helping thousands over the last decade to reunite with their families, attend their studies abroad, and reach critical medical care that is unavailable in Gaza.

Yasmine is currently in the Netherlands, where she was attending a training course through a scholarship which began September 27th, and has not been able to return home. Mohammed and his four children, aged 13, 12, 6, and 5 years old, have been separated from Yasmine for more than three months while trying to survive bombardment and siege in Gaza.

Top: Yasmine in the Hague on October 4, 2023. The text below her reads ‘peace’ in multiple languages. Below: Mohammed featured in a Dutch paper for his human rights work in November 2021.

The war has devastated their home, and they are left without any safe refuge. Like so many in Gaza, the family is hungry. Mohammed shared that all four of his children suffer from health and digestive problems due to the unsanitary conditions and inadequate supply of food, water, and medication.

Some of the damage to the Azaiza family home since October 7th.

Your support provides a life changing opportunity for this family to reunite in safety, to heal, and begin a new chapter abroad. All donations will fund the family’s travel costs, border fees, and living expenses until they can process their asylum request in the Netherlands. Any amount that you can provide will truly make a difference. Thank you for your help, and your generosity.

S. Azaiza with relative Motaz Azaiza, a journalist risking his life to share the destruction in Gaza with the world.

A word from the organizer:

My name is Dor Chavoinik, and I am a former colleague of Mohammed's who will be collecting and distributing the donations on behalf of the Azaiza family. I will be collecting the funds from my bank account in California and transferring to the family directly. Please look out for progress updates!

I have had the honor to know both Mohammed and Yasmine personally and professionally for a number of years, and can say they are truly some of the most heroic people I know. Where they are usually in a position selflessly helping others, now is the moment where we must get involved not only to change what is happening in Gaza and in Israel, but also to stand with our friends who have risked so much of their lives to create the world we all dream of living in. Thank you for standing with us and supporting this beautiful family.

Pictured: Beth Oppenheim, Mohammed Azaiza, and Dor Chavoinik, July 2022.