They killed my mother.
My father and my brothers are fighting for their lives.
So please give me just one minute to introduce myself.
My name is Tasneem. I am from Palestine.
My husband, my infant daughter, and I made it out of Gaza alive. It was a miracle that we were rescued and evacuated. But my heart is still with my family, who continue to suffer every day.
My older brother Abdullah and his wife Samira were married during the war. Samira gave birth to her first child, Mohammed, despite the lack of medical care in Gaza. It has been a struggle for them to afford everything they need for Mohammed—real food, clothing, diapers, and medicine. Samira is currently 7 months pregnant. Recently, the tent that they live in burned down, along with their belongings and everything they had saved for the baby. Now, despite working as hard as they can, they have been left with nothing to provide for both children.
In this war, our home was destroyed. And that day, I lost everything—my mother was killed, and my father and my brothers were severely injured. My father is very dear to me. Every time I used to hear him sing, I would smile. Now he is suffering from a brain hemorrhage due to an injury from an air strike; and he can no longer speak. He is on the waitlist for a medical evacuation, but they are very hard to get. In the meantime, he needs constant medical attention, and we cannot afford everything he needs—medicine, a hospital bed, a wheelchair, and rehabilitation treatment.
So for my family, I am making this campaign because I believe in you. I am raising money to help my father and my family. I want to give them a chance to survive and some peace after all this pain.
My family needs help because we have been forgotten by the world.
Anything you can give, no matter how small, will give us hope and life.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart,
Tasneem
