Help My Family Evacuate From Gaza

Dear Friends,

I’m writing this to you in a time of great urgency and need. My family of four members is currently in Gaza, facing unimaginable circumstances. Me and my family are desperately seeking your support to help them evacuate to safety.

I am currently an international student studying at Dartmouth College, I find myself thousands of miles away, feeling helpless as my family endures the hardships of the ongoing crisis in Gaza. The situation has become increasingly dire, and I fear for their safety daily. I left Gaza on the 20th of August with hopes of pursuing college and eventually going back to the place that I’ve always seen as home. I am more than sure if I would be able to go back to Gaza in the summer, nothing would be the same. Everything is different, turned into ashes. Streets I used to hang out with my friends after school— ashes; Landmarks, buildings, people— ashes. Each day I try to reimagine them, but they are slowly fading from my memory because I am here instead of there. I can never see them again because they are all ash now. And now me, while being away from my family has made it immeasurably worse for me to cope with wars. I have always lived hand in hand with my family, sticking together.

Since Oct 7th, I've been thinking about my family before myself. Every time I say this my heart aches more and breaks into even more pieces. They have already evacuated within Gaza three times, going back and forth, going from mid-Gaza to the north and going back to mid-Gaza, fleeing back to the south, and have witnessed death countless times, yet were able to make it miraculously.

I fear their fear. I cry with them. People ask me how I'm doing. I am in a country where I know nothing about my family and my loved ones.

As seen below, photos out the the building me and my family had spent 13 years in living, where my parents had put all of their nowhere work to get us a roof to live under.