07/05/2024
Salam all,
My name is Mohammed F***j, a-31year old engineer living in the Gaza Strip. I have been more than reluctant to share my story as I am not that kind of person who seeks sympathy from people.
I had to flee my home at Al-Karama Towers on October 10th after the israeli forces bombed my house, destroying it entirely once and for all. We only spent less than two years in that house after it had burned down in 2021.
After losing our only home, we had to move to my uncle’s where we spent 20 days full of horror and sorrow.
The same scenario repeated itself when the israeli forces again bombed and destroyed my uncle’s house. We, for the second time, had to run for our lives to my aunt’s house in the most densely populated refugee camp in Al-Maghazi where we stayed for more than 30 days. We found out we had lost everything, including our gaming shop, car and real estate, not to mention our friends and relatives.
My family had met the Israeli army where they humiliated them and took most of them hostages while the male relatives were kidnapped. We know nothing about them till this day. The last time we heard from my detained relatives was a month ago when we found out they were outside of the Strip and were not together.
My sister told me that the last thing she remember was them running for their lives after an israeli lieutenant forcibly ordered them to move to Rafah, telling them we had two minutes! They had to hold our bags (the personal ones only) and run while the bombings and bullets were showering all around us. They had to walk 4 hours to arrive at a hospital in Deir El Balah where they spent the night since they had nowhere else to go until I met them.
The next day, we walked to Al-Mawasi area (it’s in the middle between Khan Younes and Rafah) where we spent two days in the streets until we figured out how to build a tent.
There are 70 members in my family in Rafah now, and we are divided into four tents (one of them is being used as a so-called bathroom).
Living in a tent is like hell. In the beginning, I tried to remain positive and think of the whole experience as it I was “camping“, but I realized I was wrong when coldness and illness lingered on my skin. We spent days without eating or sleeping, and when we slept, it was on the floor which was full of mud, sand and insects. When it’s raining, we know that will have “a forced cold bath”.
I don’t want to go on living this way. I don’t want my mother( suffers from heart disease and diabetic) and nieces (one of whom suffers from Brain atrophy and Epilepsy) to witness my death. I am kindly and urgently asking you for your help to leave Gaza and live as a normal person anywhere else. Egypt is demanding 5000$ per person to allow us to leave through Rafah. I want to make it up for my family by saving them from this horror. The only way I can do so is by raising money for my family and I, for hopes of a better future.
Note: my eldest daughter Batoul, suffers from Brian atrophy and Epilepsy. She can’t eat from her mouth only using a tube in her abdomen tied directly to her stomach. She needs special conditions to stay alive.
Your help is very important
Salam all, My name is Mohammed F***j, a-31year old engineer living i… Mohamed F***j needs your support for Help Mohammed’s daughter to get medical treatment