Help Save My Family From Gaza Genocide

It's an urgent time. We in northern Gaza are now experiencing a full-blown famine. The crossings have been closed since March 1, 2025, and have been in effect for more than 70 days. The situation is worsening due to the lack of most basic food items and their skyrocketing prices. Any amount of money can help save my family's life.

Hello , my name is Muhammad Ziyad Yassin Al-Madhoun. I am 35 years old. I live in occupied Palestine, specifically the city of Gaza (North Gaza), which I love, and which has been subjected to criminal war and genocide since October 7, 2023, in front of the eyes of peoples, governments, international humanitarian institutions, and the entire world, and without them doing anything.

I now live in northern Gaza after the temporary ceasefire agreement in January 2025. After being displaced and moved between tents and shelters for about a year and a half to the southern Gaza Strip, and more than six times, during which we experienced all kinds of pain and suffering, I returned to my home, which miraculously escaped total demolition after suffering significant damage from several rocket attacks. Fortunately, it remains habitable.

I have two children, Ziad, 5 years old, and his sister Mirna, one and a half years old. We were living a good life before the current war in the Gaza Strip.

My son ziad before and after the Genocide

My Children Zeyad And Mirna Before Genocide IN Gaza

After the genocide , my children, like the rest of the children in Gaza, lived a poor life in a shelter containing more than 300 people.

My two children were exposed several times to various viral infections due to the inappropriate life, the large mixing between the displaced people in the shelter, and moving between different shelters and tents more than once.

I have been working as a lawyer since 2017. I have stopped practicing this profession since the beginning of the genocidal war on Gaza City on October 7, 2023, and until now (May 2025). This was due to the outbreak and continuation of the war, the destruction of the law firm where I work, the complete damage to the furniture, and the loss of a large number of documents related to my profession. I have lost my profession, in whole or in part, for many years as a result of the devastating war on Gaza.

Since the beginning of the genocide in the Gaza Strip until this date (more than a year and a half), I have completely stopped working, and my family and I have been left without any source of income. After being displaced to the southern Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war, all my money was depleted in a short period of time, due to forced displacement and frequent movement from one place to another within the southern Gaza Strip, in addition to the rise in the prices of goods and food to dozens of times the real price due to the scarcity of these materials and items and the closure of the crossings.

The new place that I have been displaced for for the sixth time, the place is very narrow and is in a shelter divided into small rooms using plastic sheets, this place is better than the tent with regard to high temperatures and exposure to direct sunlight. Thank God anyway.

Since May 1, 2024, my family and I have been displaced for the fifth time from Rafah to the northern Khan Yunis area. My family and I lived in a tent for the first time, and it was extremely difficult.

The tent is made of plastic (nylon) and has an area of ​​4 x 4 square meters, in an area far from all services, including water, electricity, internet, and drinking water. I was getting most of the needs after a lot of effort and suffering. I walk hundreds of meters a day, several times, to fill up drinking water, get internet, or charge my phone.

Water intended for drinking is often contaminated and mixed with impure water. This water caused us to suffer from gastroenteritis and the accompanying vomiting, diarrhea, and other symptoms. There are many widespread diseases, especially hepatitis, as a result of the inability to maintain cleanliness continuously.

During the early morning hours we had to leave the tent and look for another place away from the sun. Temperatures inside the tent rise to 45-50 degrees Celsius.

During one of the harshest periods of displacement, my family of 3 and I lived in a small room in a shelter housing about fifty small families. The room was only about eight square meters and was used for everything: sitting, cooking, eating, sleeping, praying, and more.

I spent more than half of my life in successive wars that began in 2000 AD with the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada until the present day. I lived through many of the wars that Gaza was exposed to, specifically in the years 2008, 2012, 2014, 2018, and 2021, during which the people of Gaza were exposed to hundreds of hideous massacres, in addition to the sabotage and destruction that these wars inflicted on Gaza and were reflected in all aspects of life throughout those years.

During this war in Gaza -Palestine, which continues to this day, my house was subjected to major damage. This led to vandalism and destruction of the ceiling, walls, tiles, decor, doors of the house, etc., and also caused almost complete damage and the loss of the majority of the contents. The house, especially the furniture, wooden doors of the rooms, entire windows, electrical appliances, and children’s toys, and everything in my home.

Here are some pictures of them in our partially destroyed house.

Video : The damage to my house

In addition to Total destruction and direct targeting of the solar system, which I have been relying on mainly due to the scarcity of electric current and its interruption for long hours on a daily basis and for many years.

Solar Panels Before destroying.

Solar Panels After destroying

It also displays my law firm, which is the only source of income for destruction and destruction, including the contents, furniture, electrical appliances, laptops, important files and documents , etc. in addition to the complete destruction of most of the headquarters related to my work, such as the courts. And the public prosecutions, burning them, and destroying all their documents, which exposes me to a high probability of losing any financial income through the legal profession for a period of up to 3-4 years or more.

In the preparation of food, we often rely on some canned food that arrives to Gaza from outside, in addition to some grains such as lentils and rice, which are available in a scarce way in Gaza.

Obtaining vegetables has become a very difficult task, due to its scarcity and scarcity of some of them, and their prices have risen to 10 times or more, as a result of the absence of any land farming operations since 5 months since the beginning of the war in Gaza, with an almost complete lack of all kinds of fruits, because they did not enter through aid. or crossings.

I am now displaced for the fourth time to the Rafah area in southern Gaza Strip. Because the place where I was with my family and children was damaged, today we are facing great difficulties in moving from one place to another since the beginning of the war, as a result of the scarcity of transportation and the high transportation prices in conjunction with our transfer and displacement 4 times between the governorates to the tents and some different places, in addition to Fatigue and suffering as a result of the transfer of some supplies such as covers and bedding and others. We also face many daily problems as a result of the scarcity of food and other supplies and the high prices of tens, which forced us to spend large sums of money without any financial income in the current period as a result of the continuation of the war in Gaza.

My children are exposed almost weekly and continuously to infections and diseases as a result of the spread of various viruses, and these infections are accompanied by many worrying symptoms such as high temperature and persistent cough.

the situation Every day, it gets worse, especially as we are coming to the holy month of Ramadan, when the expenses are higher than on normal days.

I need the support of friends abroad to help me recover Construction and repair of some of the partial damage to my home, and some of what I lost as well, whether in my home or law firm, and buying the necessary home furniture and electrical appliances, and to be able to find a sum of money to help me continue with my daily life that I lived before the war, or Enable me to travel outside Gaza, or enable me to set up a suitable small business, or any other work through which I can provide good financial income after I lost my profession for many years to come, which may be very long due to the destruction of all aspects of life in Gaza Strip.

This support will be disbursed mostly according to the following estimates:

1- Approximately $27,000 - approximately $34,000 will be disbursed as follows:

•The roof, which was damaged by making 3 holes, is more than 1-1.5 meters in length and width of one hole, and this includes the help of engineers for this purpose.

• Approximately $3,400 is the cost of rebuilding and reconstructing the internal and external walls of the house, which were partially or completely demolished by direct injuries.

• Approximately $5,400 is the cost of replacing the windows that have been completely damaged, and there are about 15 windows, including large windows.

• Approximately $700 is the cost of purchasing 2-3 water tanks and a solar water heating system, as these were completely damaged.

• Approximately $2,700 is the cost of repurchasing a number of electrical appliances that have been damaged and lost, such as the TV screen, a laptop, a washing machine and a number of other electrical appliances.

• Approximately $3,400 is the cost of purchasing a solar energy system instead of the previous system, which was completely destroyed, completely unusable, as the Gaza Strip, before the current crisis, was suffering from power outages of up to 16 hours a day, and it is difficult to dispense with this system.

• Approximately $2,700 is the cost of renovating the old home decor, which has fallen and damaged in an unreformed way, and the addition of some other decorations, including the help of a specialized engineer. • Approximately $4,000 is the cost of repairing and renovating some things that are necessary to change with the renovation of the house, after repairing the partial damages and changes to the house, such as re-painting the walls and ceiling of the house, and installing a new kitchen for the house.

• Approximately $3,400 is the cost of re-maintaining what can be maintained of home furniture, such as sleeping set, sofa set, bedding, dining table, children's room and games.

• Approximately $200$ is the cost of removing rubble from inside the house and the entrance to the main house.

2- Approximately $1,300-2,700 will be disbursed as follows :

• Rehabilitation of my profession (non-ownered) of furniture and electrical appliances necessary and prepared for use often other than the legal profession, as these The profession is difficult and bad before the current crisis, and it will get worse after the crisis and this problem will extend for many years.

3- Approximately $27,000 - $34,000 will be disbursed as follows:

• Use part of this amount to create my own business or business to enable me to get a good financial income after I have been forced into the legal profession, which will stop. (Profession) for many years, ranging from 3-4 years or more, as a result of the destruction of all headquarters related to my work, such as the courts, prosecutions and police stations, as I mentioned.

• Using part of this amount for living and daily life expenses, and covering the financial deficit that will result from my failure to work for several years to come. Part of this amount is used to compensate me for part of the sums that I spend on a daily basis since the beginning of the crisis until the present day, in light of the insane rise in prices as a result of their scarcity in the markets and as a result of the accumulation of displaced people in a small geographical area (Rafah).

• Use part of this amount because there is a possibility of traveling or migrating with my family, if this is available and if there are good opportunities to work abroad.

# All the costs listed are estimated costs, yet they are largely accurate, and the prices mentioned are according to the previous and accepted prices before the crisis. Basic materials for the Gaza Strip.

# The photos and video clips obtained by some relatives do not fully monitor the damage in the house, and my office has not been photographed, and that all the damages that were listed are not final as a result of the crisis that the crisis has not ended until this day, and our presence is displaced in the Rafah area in the southern Gaza Strip, with The possibility of an increase in the above-mentioned damage, God forbid.