Help my family in Northern Gaza after a tragic loss
I am Rawan from northern Gaza, a 21-year-old Palestinian engineer. I launched this campaign as a last hope to escape this dark reality that we have been living in for more than a year. I excelled and achieved distinction with honors at all stages of my studies. I haven't completed my studies yet because my university was destroyed because of that genocide. We had a fulfilling family life before October 7th, but our lives have changed since that day. We saw nothing but destruction, losses, displacement, hunger and violent explosions. We have been displaced more than 30 times. Can you imagine being homeless, without anything? We slept in the streets of universities and schools in the bitter cold, without blankets and without food. We ate fodder and grass for more than 5 months in northern Gaza, and we are still living through those harsh days to escape death and emerge safely. We were besieged for weeks by the army's torture. They were directly targeting us with shells, bullets, and internationally banned phosphorus bombs. We are tired of all the attempts to survive. I was on the verge of death and collapse for more than a year. I fell into a state of shock and depression for months as a result of the psychological torture that I saw every second: human body parts, dismembered bodies, and corpses before my eyes. The whole carcasses were placed in a small carton or kilo bag. No one knew who they were. I would be one of them every time. My family and I, to this day, 410 years after that genocide, do not know the meaning of sleep. Even painkillers and medications no longer help me. I lost everything beautiful in my life. Everything became just a memory photo on my phone. You can make a difference for my family of 10 members: my parents, my mother, who recently suffered from chronic stress and lost half her weight due to immunodeficiency, my elderly grandmother, who suffers from chronic diseases, my aunt, my brothers, and my little sister, Soso, who is only 4 years old, and suffers from... Malnutrition and shock when seeing body parts, as a result of constant hunger. We have to bear her crying every morning until she gets her most basic rights as a child, which is to make a living dipped in blood in northern Gaza. Working alone to save and evacuate 10 innocent lives exhausted by death in northern Gaza is exhausting and tiring, in addition to being infected all summer with these bacterial diseases due to expired canned food and pollution, which burn me with pain, spread in my face, eat meat until it reaches the bone, and even antibiotics did not help, so I thought a lot about Creating this campaign to evacuate, continuing my education, pursuing my dreams, and saving my family from that dark, never-ending nightmare I am. I trust in your humanity. You are my family. Do not leave me alone.
tj (i make it to the end) 😷
