7/17/26 a Message from Aboud:

My dear friends, my extended family across this vast world.

I write to you today, not with ink, but with the tears of a soul weary from waiting, and with the beating of a heart struggling to remain strong for the sake of those it loves. I address you today as we have endured more than 1,000 days in the darkness of this suffering—a thousand days of bitter displacement, silent hunger, and oppression that devours our features and hearts. A thousand days with our dreams postponed, folded beneath pillows of fear, protected from the scorching dust of reality.

Here, in this cramped space, the dreams of my younger siblings slumber and awaken to repeated disappointment.

Amir, my brother who excelled in high school with a score that reached for the stars, carries the dream of studying medicine like a burning torch in his hands. For two whole years, he has waited for an opportunity to travel and study abroad, two years of anticipation with nothing on the horizon but a mirage.

Zeina, our flower, asks for nothing more than her simple right to complete her education and build a future that reflects her.

My mother and father, whose strength has been worn down by exile, now dream only of a dignified and peaceful life befitting their aging.

My wife and I carry within our patience a dream that grows stronger every day: our little one, whose arrival we await in six months. We dream that he will be born healthy, and that he will see the light in a world filled with peace and love, not one ruled by walls and tents.

O people of compassionate hearts and vibrant humanity, of whom we have always been proud,

Were it not for God and then your boundless support, we would not have been able to persevere and reach this day. Thanks to your past support, I was able to provide my wife with essential medications and buy some basic sustenance—vegetables and pasta—to keep my family alive. Before I ask anything of you, I send you all my family—my mother, my father, my siblings Zeina and Amir, my wife, and our unborn child—a big, warm hug from the depths of our hearts.

But today I return to you, appealing to your humanity, which has never failed us:

Today we face challenges that exceed human endurance.

Repaying the loan for our recent displacement: a burden that weighs heavily on me and crushes my spirit every night.

Medical care for the unborn child: we desperately need to buy the remaining calcium and folic acid medications to protect our child from birth defects and other risks.

The summer heat inside the tent: we live under a nylon roof, where temperatures exceed 50 degrees Celsius. It's a veritable oven that no human body can withstand. I hope to raise ( $3,500 ) with your help to meet these basic needs and to make some simple repairs to the tent. We need to create a small, shaded outdoor seating area to protect myself, my family, and my unborn child from the scorching sun and relentless heat.

My friends, you are not just donors; you are the lifeline that sustains our hope. I place our story in your hands, along with our absolute trust that you will not leave us to face this sweltering heat and this fate alone.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for being our hope in these dark times.

6/29/26

Update our friends have been displaced again and are in need of continued support to buy food, vitamins, medical care, and medicines, clothing, shelter upkeep, and the myriad of other expenses that come up. Please share this campaign with your community and keep our friends in your prayers.

Hello everyone, Our friend Aboud and his family are in urgent need of vitamins and Zaina is not able to return to school until Aboud can raise the funds to pay for her schooling. Children deserves, a home, clothing, food, shelter, education and safety. If we cannot provide all these needs at least we can provide a few. School allows children to focus on something other than the dire situation they are in, it allows them to play and connect with their peers, and it also gives them the tools so they can hope for a brighter future. Please help us meet the current need of 2,600, this will support the rebuilding of their summer “tent”, safe drinking water, education costs for Zeina, and as always food and medical treatments including vitamins to keep their health from collapsing.

Thank you for being in relationship with us and our dear friend and his family. We are grateful to be walking this road with you alll.

The are words directly from 4/20/26 “I am Aboud, responsible for two families: younger siblings, a mother who longs for safety, and a wife who shared with me the dream of life despite all this pain. We are seven people, and recently I became responsible for a second family. Together, we try to cling to life amidst all this hardship and suffocation that surrounds us from every side.

We are not just numbers here; we are human beings. We dream, we suffer, and we deserve to live. We dream of building a family, of remaining on our land, and of defying everything to prove that we are still here.

Your presence by our side is not just support; it is life itself, a hope planted in our hearts every day. You hold our hands when we are weak and give us the strength to continue. Therefore, you should be proud of yourself because you are not just helping; you are giving life to two entire families. My friend, these days my eyesight has started to weaken, and I need 3/1 glasses to help me read, stabilize my vision, and protect my eyes from the sun. We also need some food, vegetables, and protein sources. Although prices here have become very high, we believe that together, we can overcome all of this.

Please, recently my tent was damaged; the wood broke, and the nylon tore. It couldn't withstand the strong winds. I don't know what to do. My whole hope depends on you, my friends. Stay by our side. You are more than a friend to us; you are the soul of our bodies. From me, my mother, Zeina, and the whole family, a big hug, from heart to heart. We love you and are more grateful to you than words can express. Please stay by our side and give us hope for survival and life. My dear friend Ben, stay by my side to help me regain my sight. I trust you and will always embrace you in every step of life. Always know that you give two Palestinian families hope and life, and you give them the ability to continue. Be proud of yourself and always keep going, for time and life will do you justice one day, my friend.

Any support you can give brings an immeasurable amount of hope for our friends survival and keeping their dreams alive. If you can share this campaign with your friends and family, we are grateful for it, if you can donate to the campaign, we are grateful to you, if you can keep their story alive, we are grateful for the time you give. We have been humbled by the experience of a small group of friends organizing to raise funds for our friends survival. It helps all of us feel less helpless and less alone in this struggle, and it reminds us we are one human family. Our friend Aboud has degrading eyesight due to shrapnel damage and will one day lose his eyesight if he is unable to get the surgery he needs in Egypt. The pain in his eyes is excruciating and is debilitating to get his daily chores done to survive. Aboud is a 24 year old that was a law student and he is also a poet and a writer. We have been fundraising for him with his writings and he is an amazing and sweet person. Any support we are grateful for and thank you for everything you have done for our friend.

Take care of yourselves, and take care of one another.

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Here I am again, writing to you once more. For over a month, I haven't received any donations due to the GFM fundraising campaign being frozen. Now, I've received good news: the freeze has been lifted, and our campaign's legitimacy has been confirmed. My friends, today I write to you from a heart burdened with worries, from a body that has lost more than 5 kilograms, from eyes that see only darkness, and from a pain that will only heal with you by my side. I write to you from my mother's weary heart, waiting to smile again, from the body of my little sister, Zeina, and from the innocence of my brother, Amir. I write to you not only because you are my friends, but because you are my second family. I love each and every one of you, by your names, titles, and qualities, very much, and I send you a big hug, my friends, from my heart and the hearts of my family. For more than a month, we have been feeling hungry because I have not been able to buy enough food and nutritional supplements throughout the freezing period. We feel thirsty because I have not been able to buy potable water. The specter of malnutrition has returned to us again, and the loans have burdened me. My mother's body is very tired, and her heart is also weak, and she urgently needs vitamins. My sister Zeina has become unable to exercise her simplest right, which is the right to education, as she is no longer able to go to the educational center because I am unable to pay the monthly fees for her. My eyes need you, my friends. As you know, the realization of a simple dream that we all dreamed of together, you and I, is approaching. It is my dream of marriage and forming a new, small family based on love, humanity, and mercy. Next Saturday is my wedding day, for which I have not saved anything because I am unable to buy new clothes, sweets, clothes for my little sister with the soft hair, and clothes for my mother who dreams of smiling, being happy, and dancing for me and my little brother Amir, who wants to see me forming a small family that loves you. My friends and my second family, please help me achieve my most basic rights: to buy food and clean drinking water, and to bring a smile to my little sister and little brother, Amir. Help me with my right to live. I just want to live and dream of a family living in peace, based on humanity, and to build a beautiful future with you by my side, in my life, hand in hand for the future of me and my family. Hand in hand to help us build a beautiful family based on humanity and love, only humanity and love. I love you all so much, and I send you a big hug. I hope, and I trust, that you can provide $3,000 for food and drink, my little sister's right to education, to pay off some loans, and to buy medicine for my mother and my eyes, as well as nutritional supplements. I trust you and love you so much. Let's work together to create even just a few beautiful moments for Aboud and his family.

From Aboud to my friend Ben: If he can still see us, feel us, and be with us, and we are with him in his heart. We love you so much, my friend, and we need you.”

My name is Tabitha I live in Washington state and me and a small group of friends have been fundraising for our friend Aboud, who we now consider family. We were introduced to him by a friends family member almost 2 years ago. We send him 100% of the funds wiring straight to his bank account in the Gaza Strip. Our gofundme account has been audited and verified twice in the past 6 months, so it is surely for sure for real a real fundraiser for real people that rely on the kindness of people to help him and his family meet the material needs for their survival. Currently they are in need of food (we haven’t been able to get them money during the audit of this account) that they are in desperate deficit of, to buy clean water, fees for Zeina’s school, medicine and nutritional supplements that the family needs due to health issues, money to save up for Aboud’s eye surgery in Egypt, as well as paying back loaned money from his community during the time his gofundme was being frozen and audited, and then of course clothes and food for his upcoming very humble wedding. We are happy to celebrate Aboud’s wedding this Saturday March 28th with a fundraising event in Seattle,Washington. If you are around, we would love to see you in person.

Update 2/20/26

Aboud and Rozan (his fiancée) have decided to celebrate love and embrace joy by getting married at the end of march. Any support for Aboud to be able to pay for a celebration for this joyous occasion is greatly appreciate. And of course sustained donations for food, water, medicine and vitamins, weather appropriate clothes, and to keep adding to Aboud’s savings towards his eyesight saving surgery that he will need to get in Egypt. In case you are curious, my name is Tabitha I live in the Pacific Northwest of the u.s. and I started this fundraiser a little over a year and a half ago after I was introduced to this very special and talented young man. Since then we have raised money to help make life a little easier, as well as printed out 3 zines full of his poetry and writings. He will soon be releasing some new poetry/writings at the beginning of march. We are in awe of the response of our communities to support this young Man, his family, and his dreams for a future of dignity. No donation is too small or too large. Every little bit helps and you can also choose to donate on a automatic monthly basis which helps to create some stability for the family. Thank you again for everything. And take care.

I write this not knowing if you will see this update now or after our account is reinstated.

Thank you again for your big hearts and your unwavering support towards a world of empathy, care, and action towards a better world.

Love, Tabitha

(Now then) Today, on 1/31/2026, I am writing these words to you after losing everything in this genocide: my beautiful home, my entire village (which I haven't been able to return to yet), my grandfather, my grandmother, many of my friends, and my beautiful cat, whom I rescued the first time from under the rubble. I was injured in my hand and suffered disfigurement, and now I am on the verge of losing my family, whom I am striving with all my might to save: my mother, Samar, my little sister, Zeina, my little brother, Amir, and my father. We are all here, continuing for a few more days thanks to your support and your embrace of us and of Palestine. You are the jewel of humanity in this cruel world. I speak to you today as your friend, your brother, and a member of your family. I am here to inform you that the crossing will open on Sunday, February 2, 2026. As you know, I was injured in my hand and eye, and I am on the verge of losing my sight. I suffer from a degree of vision impairment that has reached 4.5, and my astigmatism has reached 2 degrees. Both eyes are swollen, and this affects my brain, causing me to faint. I am not asking you to expedite the urgent surgery needed to save my eyesight, but rather, with a broken heart and in the spirit of our shared humanity that transcends distance, I humbly request your assistance in purchasing the necessary medications and eye drops, as well as the appropriate glasses I need to stabilize my vision for just six months until I can travel to Egypt for the surgery. These medications are available in limited quantities here and are very expensive, costing up to $5,500. Let us unite our hearts, and I will share in the success of the operation. Perhaps you will all come to visit me and check on me, so that we may embody a great and profound act of humanity. I love you all, I trust you, and thank you all (and special thanks to the supporter whose humanity surpassed description. Great love from my heart and the heart of my family for him, and I hope he stays by our side to guide a family full of innocence and on the brink of death to safety).

Update 1/28/26

Hello everyone, I hope that you are safe and well with your loved ones. I know there is a lot of heavy-ness in the world. I know I feel it and it is hard to find the motivation some days to do the basics. I will say this, I often reflect on what my family has been through on this earth and I know they were able to survive it because I am a testament of this. I hope only for everyone to thrive on this beautiful planet, and that is part of this work we are doing here together. We are supporting our new relatives that are very far, and we do this because our humanity is sacred and is important to show up for, and we know other people’s humanity is also sacred. So thank you for taking the time to support our friends and make a difference in this world, even when we may also be suffering.

Our friends are currently experiencing an illness that is quickly circulating the camps. They had to borrow money to get medications and supplements. Any money we raise %100 still goes towards the family’s medical needs, food needs, survival needs, and for eye surgery for Aboud in Egypt, when it is possible. This surgery for his eyes are necessary to save what vision he still has left.

As for me my name is Tabitha and i grew up in Texas, and currently living in the PNW. We got connected to Aboud through a mutual friend and have been raising money for his family 1.5 years ago.

Take care everyone, and feel free to share this campaign with your community.

Update 12/24/25

Hello everyone, and happy holidays. I am writing to let everyone know that our dear friend Aboud's family is really struggling. His mother had a transient myocardial infarction (heart attack) today and is in the hospital and barely able to talk or move. This is a big blow for the family and especially for the children, Aboud's Mother is not very old and being malnourished for so long has consequences such as this. Their immediate need is $1800 for baby aspirin, heart medications, a feeding cannula and continuous care. If you feel it in your heart, and are able to give, anything truly will help this family as they navigate yet another hurdle.

Take care everyone, and thank you in advance for your generosity

Update 12/18/25

Hello to all the conscious hearts out here in a world that doesn't often hold that as an important virtue. So thank you for just being a caring person. I hope your holidays are well full of the things that matter most, time with loved ones.

A bit of an update from our friends Aboud and his family. I receive voice messages from Zeina his little sister and she talks to me in english, each message I get she is getting better with english. She is a smart cookie and a sweetheart.

Our friends are enduring some extreme weather, I live in the state of washington and if you do to you understand the extreme rain we have been experiencing along with strong winds, is very similar to what our friends are experiencing. Heavy heavy rains, flooding, extreme winds. But they endure all of this living in tent, a better tent than most, but during the extreme weather they are not able to cook on a fire outside, they are not able to create warmth in the tent and as we have been hearing there are deaths occurring due to hypothermia from colder nights. We are still working towards goals of getting Abouds surgery, we are getting closer to having enough. he also told me that he recently went to the eye dr. because of immense pain and he is one degree from losing sight in his one functional eye. this is hard news, he will be able to get medicine antibiotics and pain reliever for his eye. Thank you all for your generosity and for creating such a beautiful circle of support for our global family. Feel free to share this fundraiser to any folks that are sympathetic to the cause.

Update 12/3/2025

Hello everyone, it was brought to my attention that I haven't updated the story in a while, but if you have donated we have been updating everyone of the needs of the family that are always evolving.

Our friend Aboud had a dream of having electricity for the first time in 2 years via solar panels, he has seen others with them so they know they are available, but they are very expensive $4,500. So far we have had an amazing response to his dream of bringing light to the darkness.

Another need is Aboud lost his glasses when he was fleeing harm, and he is needing progressive glasses (kinda like a trifocal) they are extremely expensive there and he also needs medication for his eyes to slow down the degradation of his sight, unfortunately his eyesight has gotten worse and he is one degree away from blindness in one eye. Only if the border opens can he leave to get the eyesight saving surgery he desperately needs.

There is also an impending storm that will last 2 days with heavy winds, thunderstorms with heavy rain. They are currently preparing for the storm, they will not be able to cook over a fire for 2 days and everyone is slowly recovering from starvation due to the generosity of this community. His mother suggested they buy 3 kilos of gas which is $1750, which may also last for a week and a half. They want to get some lentils and rice and vegetables if they see them.

Abouds eye is very inflamed and painful. Aboud and Zeina are asking for help from everyone to help their family during all these continual misfortunes

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Thank you all so much for your generous donations, especially the increase in the past weeks since Aboud put out another urgent call for his family. We talked to Aboud and decided to raise the goal of the campaign. This reflects the fact that there is no end in sight; their continual displacement as their region faces both increased danger; the loss of their few belongings like their tent; the catastrophic prices for basic necessities like food, water, and medicine; and their worsening health as this atrocity continues. They have only been saving a tiny portion of the money raised so far - a few thousand dollars that is kept safe for them by an organization - in the hopes that Aboud will someday be able to get the eye operation he needs to save his sight. The rest of the money has already been spent on their day-to-day survival, and it is unfortunately still not enough. Even now, Aboud is paying off a loan he took to get his family out of an area that is unsafe.

Here's a recent message from Aboud:

"I want to advise you on something, share it with all your friends. My family and I love life. We love knowledge and studying. We do not glorify tent life, as we love to have a home and a garden. We have been deprived of our right to life, treatment, and education. We want peace, we do not want wars, and we love free people very much, and we love many in America who are fighting for us. I love you very much. We want you to stay by my side and my family to survive this hell."

Update***

Aboud and Rozan's fundraisers are being separated again - nothing has changed with their relationship or engagement, but because of language barriers there were some miscommunications between us and them about combining the fundraisers for their families, and ultimately they've decided it makes the most sense to keep them separate. The fundraiser for Rozan's family can be found here: https://gofund.me/3eb1eaa8

If you are a monthly donor, you do not have to change anything right now - for the time being we are continuing to split your monthly donations between Aboud and Rozan's families. If that needs to change, we will reach out to you.

Thank you for your continued support of Aboud, Rozan, and their families!

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Here is a message from Aboud...

(I loved her, so she smiled) "Aboud Rozan"

I have loved her since 2014. I remember that we were also in a war and I had also lost many members of my family, including my father's uncle. I loved her and confessed to her at that time and she reciprocated the feeling. She loved me but was very shy to confess, so I was the one who took the initiative. Our circumstances were very difficult until we worked hard and did everything we could, Rozan and I, and we were able to secure everything for our families. We had a beautiful house and I graduated from the university from the Faculty of Law and Political Science, and my partner Rozan used to go to university every morning. I remember that I used to wait for her standing at the window of the house to make sure that she arrived safely. I loved her very much and she was the closest to my heart and she still is. We always dreamed of meeting and getting engaged to each other and feeling the happiness that we always sought, getting married and having wonderful children and building a beautiful home of our own that would contain us and protect us from the cold, rain and wind. I was waiting for her to graduate from university so I could go there and share her joy. Roseanne and I were dreaming until the g3nocid3 came and stole everything from us. It stole our dreams, our hopes, our laughter, our homes, destroyed all our memories, and stole everything beautiful. Please help Roseanne and me to fulfill our hopes and find our happiness like everyone else. Help us marry each other and build a beautiful future that was stolen from us by the "Zio" monster machine. Help us build a small house for us that will contain us and protect us from the cold and the wind.

Help us turn chapters of pain into hope. I trust you very much, my friends. Let's move towards my future, me and Roseanne.

I love you so much my friends

A slide show from Abood

Dear donors and friends,

Aboud has asked us to increase his fundraising goal to $25,000. Due to close proximity to bombings, he has sustained multiple injuries that require medical procedures no longer accessible in his homelands. Of his known conditions, he needs operations to restore his vision, repair one of his eardrums to restore his hearing, and a fracture in his hand that needs to be set. He has also developed Hepatitis C and skin rashes due to the lack of clean water.

The goal is to help Aboud save up enough money so that as soon as the border crossing opens, he can travel to Egypt to get the medical care he needs. The timeline is unknown, and he is still supporting his 9 year old sister and his mother. This means that he needs funds to help his family survive in the interim as well.

Aboud needs as much support as possible with a tent for the winter, food and access to potable water, and for medicines that are still available to survive the ongoing occupation. Please consider becoming a monthly sustainer through this link (https://tinyurl.com/monthly-support), donating here through his gofundme, and having 1:1 conversations with your friends and family to fundraise for Aboud.

Thank you so much for your ongoing support of our dear friend.

In solidarity,

Aboud’s fundraising team

Our collective humanity is built on how we come to the aid of those that are in need of support.

Here is what our sibling Aboud has shared with me:

10/9/24 update

"Today is my little sister Zeina’s birthday. She is crying, and we do not know whether to be happy or to cry. She is crying because for the second time it is her birthday, during this genocide, and she cannot even buy herself a simple gift. How will she be happy when we cannot always find food? Please, my friends. And my second family, she told me to tell you to help her by donating to the campaign so that she can buy clothes for her. I swear I am crying over her condition. Please, after she lost more than half her weight due to malnutrition, help me buy clothes for her. She was beautiful, and as a child she dreamed of studying, and she excelled in her studies. She even learned the Turkish language because she was always watching Turkish series. She is very smart, but the war came and stole everything beautiful from her. She lost a lot of weight, contracted hepatitis, and lost her hair. It started falling out a lot because I was unable to buy detergents. She has no clothes, and she wishes to die. Please help her so I can see her smile. I love my little sister very much. I don’t want this day to pass without getting her something."

"...over the past few days, my left hand has been injured, I have had blood clots, my finger joints have been torn, my bones have been shattered, my hand has been deformed, my eye symptoms have worsened, I have swollen and my vision has weakened, and they told me that I must have an operation when the war ends and the crossing opens.

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Now that I and my little sister have been infected with hepatitis, and my mother has been infected with skin allergies and skin diseases that are spreading among us, I now need an urgent operation on my eye that will be very expensive due to coordination and the cost of the operation, and after that, new lenses for the eye and many necessary medical resources must be purchased.

Make me today appeal to every living conscience in the world and in the country that rules the world, which is America, in which there are many who sympathize with us and stand by our side, to help me cover the cost of the operation for me and buy the necessary medical supplies and vitamins to strengthen my mother’s immunity, regardless of the food, drink and shelter that I need before the winter.

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I need people of conscience to stand by me and help me with the cost of the operation, to pay for the coordination of my exit to Egypt when the war ends, to help me find shelter before the winter, and to help me provide the necessary medical needs and food.

We were bombed yesterday and the day before and I documented everything..."

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"Peace be upon your heart. I always hope that you will be well, you who have a charitable heart.

I introduce myself to you. I am the injured person, Abdullah. They call me Aboud. I am 23 years old. I graduated from the University of Law with a bachelor’s degree. Then my dream was to complete a master’s degree, but the war came to steal everything beautiful from me.

I was displaced from my village since the 7th of October to this day, and I am far from my home, which was destroyed due to the ugliness of wars. I became displaced in my homeland on the 260th day of this war. I lost everything beautiful in my life (I lost my hearing in the left part of my ear, I lost my house, and my cat. , my village, and many of my family members) I even needed an eye operation and to this day I cannot have it done due to my financial circumstances and the difficulty of the matter.

I am Abboud, who was injured in this war in my ears, hands, head, and chest, which one day caused me shortness of breath, and before a while I was infected with hepatitis.

I have been, and still am, sleeping on the street to this day since the beginning of the war. There is no shelter to protect me from the cold of winter, and there is no shelter to protect me from the blazing summer sun. I do not know what to do, so I have begun to wish for death in every moment of the miserable life I live.

I am Abboud

I have a younger sister and an elderly mother who suffer from a difficult psychological and health condition. My sister also suffered from hepatitis, and she is in a very difficult health condition, mother.

My mother suffers from psychological disorders and war phobia. She even lost her teeth due to malnutrition. She suffers from very strong cramps, and her heart hurts. She is in a very difficult condition.

And here I am continuing to live in order to save my sister and mother at any cost, even if it costs me my life. I only appeal to you to stay by my side. My little sister and my mother, don't let us die alone

Hunger, pain, illness, and fear"

-Aboud

Aboud and family trying to survive

Still $27,417 to go. Help us build momentum.