Help Yousef escape Gaza and treat his cancer
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I'm Youseff Abu Saeed, a photojournalist from Gaza. I'm suffering from Cancer and began treatment with chemotherapy doses just one month before the war. My house was bombed and my dreams were destroyed. I started running alone from one place to another, with nothing left. I'm now fighting a disease without a cure. The only hospital that provides treatment for cancer patients in Gaza has been bombed. I have not received treatment for more than 100 days. I'm so tired. I can't keep pretending to be strong. My recovery rate would have been 95% if I continued the treatment, and now, after more than 100 days without treatment, I can't imagine that if the recovery rate is still high or not and the response to treatment will be like before the war. I want to live a healthy and a normal life like you. I have dreams too. For more than 100 days, I appealed to the world to help me to travel for treatment. The whole world watched my interviews, everyone knew about my suffering but no one helped. Nobody listened. I'm fighting a disease with no medication. My treatment journey become more difficult. I'm facing two battles- the war of bombings, death, rockets and displacement from one place to another and the internal battle with a disease. It's very difficult for me to live in a tent as a cancer patient my immune system is already weak. I tried to strengthen myself and I tried to console myself. Every day I hold on to the hope that tomorrow I might be able to continue my treatment. I'm suffering from the war and disease. i have nothing to continue my treatment. We have no money, no jobs, no home to live in. Nothing left.
As you know, I have to go out of Gaza for cancer treatment. My family will also have to travel with me because I can't leave them alone in Gaza because my sister and my mother have no place to live in. There's no place that we can rent. Unfortunately, I lost my job, my home and now we're on the street. I am the sole breadwinner of my family. My father already martyred so my mother and my sister have no one but me. My mother is already sick. I can't leave her alone. So, my family will also travel with me. Whoever has money here can travel in the light of high prices and whoever doesn't have it, dies here. Each evacuation requires $10,000 to $13,000. Apart from this, traveling expenses, accommodation expenses, cancer treatment expenses and living expenses are also there because we have no house to stay and wherever I go for treatment there will also be accommodation expenses because my family will be with me there. My house was destroyed and bombed, so when we will return to Gaza after the completion of my treatment, we will not have a house to live in and to shelter my family because of the destruction of my home and the loss of my photography equipment. I need money for that. We have lost our jobs. We have lost our loved ones. The situation is catastrophic and the pain of separation is unbearable. Please help me to survive cancer and bombings. Please help me to evacuate Gaza in order to get treatment. Please do anything to help. The situation here is very bad. Every night I close my eyes to sleep and I don't know whether I will die from the assassination of warplanes, or from illness.
Your support whether through generous donations or by sharing my campaign means alot to me. Your support will help me to survive cancer and bombings. The required amount will help us in evacuation, travel expenses, accomodation expenses, cancer treatment expenses, to rebuild my home after the war (which is now extremely damaged due to bombing), to support my family in Gaza and the cost of rebuilding their life again after the war. As I'm writing this, bombing is still happening around us. I'm reaching out to your support and generosity. Your donation, no matter how small, will make a big difference. Thank you so much for reading this. I really appreciate your donations, help and support.
this is Yousef’s instagram linked below. This fundraiser is in his bio.
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Angela Hays
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Murfreesboro, TN
