Help Save Amal’s Beautiful Family

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This is the story of Amal. A Gaza mother, struggling to simply exist in a Genocide. A mother just fighting for her children’ survival day after day.

Amal Abu Shanab is originally from Gaza City, where together with her husband Amer (also known as Muhammad) and their 4 children, Fahd (11), Zain (9), Hamoud (7) and Razan (4) lived a simple life working in a small family shop.

At the time of the Israeli attacks in October 2023, Amal was pregnant which was a terrifying prospect for the mother to-be. In February 2024 Amal and her family got besieged in Gaza City together with her brother Muhammad and his young family (they also had a baby girl named Massa). They all left Gaza City in March and arrived in Khan Younis and then got displaced again and came to Deir Al Balah. On the 22th of April 2024 Amal traveled to Rafah to give birth to her baby Seela and returned one day later back to Deir Al Balah. As with almost every pregnancy in Gaza since the occupation began their genocidal campaign, Amal’s was a challenge, and a few days after being born, it was clear that Seela was underweight. They went to Al Aqsa shortly after birth where she stayed for 2 months to help with the malnutrition that was setting in. Seela recovered but the whole experience of giving birth in these traumatic conditions, and seeing her infant struggling, not to mention seeing her other children endure unimaginable hardships, traumatized Amal.

Currently Amal and her family as well as her brother and his young family, live close by, in Al Mawasi camp, in tents close to sewage. The bouts of infectious diseases, the malnourishment, the winter with the rain and cold, all of this is making their existence a daily fight for survival.

The children did not get to go to school or kindergarten, they live in completely unsanitary conditions and baby Seela did not even have winter clothes until recently. Going days without basic caloric intake is a regular across Gaza. Surviving on warm kitchen, they often found themselves without any food for the whole day.

With amazing help from incredibly selfless people, we managed to create a campaign to collect funds for her family, and we had some invaluable support from some kindhearted promoters which did an incredible job increasing donations to the point Amal was able to secure a gas stove, a donated tent, the basic kitchen items, some matrasses and blankets and essential food items like flour and formula. Often Amal said in our exchanges that her family did not eat meat in a very long time, and with the help of these incredible donors, we got one day the message that the children ate meat. It’s a surreal experience to feel joy for something we don’t’ even register as a “want”, for those of us outside of Gaza.

Amal and her family need our help. We need a group of steady donors to provide Amal the much-needed blanket of psychological safety that she will be able to have enough money to buy milk and pampers and flour and fresh fruit and vegetables, when they run out of. All the funds collected here will go towards ensuring they survive another day in Gaza.

For any questions about the campaign, you can reach out to me and I will respond as soon as possible

The lack of access to food, becomes a sentence to death.

YOUR donations are a real lifeline.

Thank you, on behalf of Amal, Amer, Fahd, Zain, Hamoud, Razan and baby Sila.

Rhea Rajkhowa

10 hours ago

$50

Melanie Hallett

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$50

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