Hi world, it’s Sharaf Al-Zaaneen

Please read this as if I'm a member of your family. maybe your brother, son or a friend and as if my family who's under death now is yours.

My name is Sharaf Omar Al-Zaaneen. Graduated as a Software Engineer from Gaza.

My family consists of 12 members . I have two brothers (Karam, Bader) and 7 sisters (Heba, Aya, Fulla, Yasmeen, Basma, Malak, Hala), and our parents (Omar, Falastin).

I am an Engineer who was supposed to start her career and achieve the dreams he worked for but found himself losing the city he’s living in and losing any hope of a better future with it. And after a whole 5 years of studying and internship, the war had another idea.

Life Before:

Life After:

Since the war on Gaza started, I lost almost everything,

On 14th October 2023, after only one week since the war started, I lost +100 members of my family (father's family) in one second. One rocket was enough to end the life of my uncle and 2 of his sons, aunt and all their sons, daughter, stepdaughters and grandchildren. None of them were left alive.

This was a big shock not only to me, but mostly to my father who lost his brother, sister and their families in a blink of an eye, his life got destroyed again in a worse way.

My loss didn’t end here, because to us Gazans, death knocks our door every single day, every new day under war is a possibility of a new loss.

Home destroyed:

On the 17th of December 2023, I lost my home, destroyed by Israeli Jewish leaving us not only with tired hearts but also without a place to stay in and now we displaced in Khan Younis City in a tent.

Forced displacement:

This loss circle didn’t end here, cause after more than 15 times of being displaced and having to leave our house escaping from rockets and death, until now we can't return home because the Israeli Jewish is in our area that our home is there.

I introduced myself at first as a Gazan Engineer with dreams, a guy in his twenties who had career plans and goals to achieve, a human who lost a lot in a short time period. But in this war I’m most importantly a big brother who see his siblings’ future getting lost in front of his eyes, as i see my brothers who didn’t finish their university’s and my sisters who are still young and supposed to be in school, my mom and father now who found themselves forced to start from zero while they were supposed to take breath and retire after raising their children and having a stable life ,as I see them, I made it a mission to myself to save my family or who’s left alive from it, to save their future from all of this and to escape Gaza.

We lived a happy and comfortable life before the war destroyed our lives, home, work, university, and wishes!!

I never imagined asking anyone for help, we were the one who always helped people, but life put us in this situation we should move on and save our life.

Our university studies:

When the war starts at 7.oct the university stopped until now then my university is completely destroyed.

In Dec, 2025 i graduated from my university as Software engineer but without any certificate because the university require 3000$ for study fees to give me the certificate.

Donations will be used in:

Please don’t read this as a tragedy story, I’m here to ask you to prevent it from getting more tragedy and to help us start our life all over again. I’m here to ask for your help not your sympathy, to ask you to take action whether by donating or by sharing this to everyone you know who can help, please read this with your heart and take action as if it’s your family, mom, father, your siblings who are under these conditions.

We hope that a permanent ceasefire and a plan will be reached to support all Palestinians in Gaza, and we are working to provide our families with some hope and immediate relief.

My second family stand behind us i know that you won't let as alone❤️

My Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/sharafoz

TikTok:

https://www.tiktok.com/@sharafoz

https://www.tiktok.com/@sshhazlksz8

PayPal:

[email redacted]*com

WhatsApp:

+972 59 [phone redacted]

Note: I am Sharaf resident in Gaza and my brother Karam in Belgium.