Hello Friends,

I met Mosab, a young man from Gaza in March 2025 as he is a volunteer at my community centre workplace. He was smuggled out of Rafah in July 2023 and made a perilous journey across to mainland Europe, eventually arriving in Ireland early 2024. He has since been granted full asylum and a work visa and has recently found work in Edinburgh where he now lives.

I would like to ask you to help me to raise money for Mosab's family who are sadly still trapped in Gaza.

Devastatingly they are now forcibly displaced from Rafah after their home and olive plantation were bombed and are now living in Khan Younis to the South of Palestine, where they are living in a makeshift temporary tent. You may have seen images of these encampments flooded during the rain and rattling in the wind.

During Summer 2025 Mosab said:

'Because it was terrible bombing and I was praying whole night every day to save my family and I am excited that they are still alive. ( Now) my family is facing a severe situation, there's no shelter, food or water at all- nearly famine. We have lost everything, our house, our farm and our assets. There's a confined seige.

There's no life at all.'

With our help he is hoping to be able to assist his family buy food, clothing and supplies there:

Mum, (51) Dad, (54), seven brothers , three sisters, and Aunty, (55).

Here is a pic of his sisters before the bombing started

Thankfully the bombing has somewhat calmed down although the ceasefire is in name only. Since the official 'ceasefire' Al Jazeera reported that 1620 people have been killed by the continued bombing.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/2/15/live-israel-kills-at-least-nine-palestinians-in-gaza-since-dawn

Their living conditions are very basic as you can imagine as they have no running water, or gas. However, his mother is a whizz chef, and makes bread on an open fire, a makeshift mud oven and serves tea from a huge iron pot. They spend their days fetching water from a community water outlet, gathering fuel to burn for heat and cooking, and keeping the children safe. No one knows what the future will bring.

Mosab hopes that one day he will be reunited with his dear family and speaks to them almost via dodgy satellite links on the phone.

With a small donation of £5 they can buy a loaf of bread, one potato or one tomato as the prices for food there are so high now.

For a donation of £10 they can buy 1 kilo of rice which would feed the children for one day.

For a donation of £50 they can feed the children for several days.

**** We are currently fundraising to buy them all warm winter jackets which cost £50 each.****

Please help Mosab and me to raise money so that we can send them funds and keep his family alive. There are still some supplies left to buy in Gaza but these are very expensive and difficult to find.

Mosab's brother has a PAYPAL bank account which we can transfer the funds raised into so he can buy what food is available to feed the children. Please help. Huge gratitude in advance. X