Help Dr. Diana Rebuild Her Life and Pharmacy in Gaza

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Here is Dr. Diana’s story in her own words:

I am Dr. Diana Nabil Hamad, a pharmacist, living in the northern Gaza Strip – Beit Hanoun city – married with a two-year-old child. I used to live in an independent house, my husband and I both worked, I in a pharmacy and he was an employee of a private company. I studied pharmacy at Al-Azhar University in the Gaza Strip in 2015 and graduated in 2021. I worked in several pharmacies during my studies. My husband, my family and I started thinking about establishing a pharmacy for myself, and the costs were expensive, but with God’s grace, the pharmacy was opened on 10_2_2022. It was a very wonderful day and we started working in it. After a while, we started paying off the debts accumulated on us. But unfortunately and sadly, the joy was not complete.

On October 7, we woke up to an imaginary day called a nightmare. Our thoughts were scattered and we became helpless and shocked. We did not know where to go. We stayed at home at night. At 2:00 in the morning, the Israeli occupation called my husband and asked him to evacuate immediately. Out of fear and panic, we did not take any of the necessary items or tools. We left everything to God and walked on foot for long distances of about 5 km, like every war, from Beit Hanoun to Jabalia camp to the UNRWA schools. We sat in the row and families began to flock to the school and it filled up. Unfortunately, we were displaced on Saturday. On Friday, the army asked us to evacuate the north and head after Wadi Gaza. We headed to the city of Nuseirat to a shelter school affiliated with the agency. Here the suffering began. We did not have clothes or kitchen utensils to prepare food, nor mattresses or blankets to sleep on. Prices began to tighten and goods began to become scarce, as usual, like in any war. We began to arrange for ourselves little by little, from a friend or A relative or neighbor with the few and very necessary things, thank God, and here the first calamity occurred.

We received news of the bombing of our house on 12/23/2023, and thus we became homeless, thank God for everything, but after a period of three months, the army asked us again to move to the city of Rafah. We went there, and in every city we need new things because we leave things behind us because there are no cars to transport the things due to the large displacement of people. They only carried people. Here the disaster occurred, the raised money began to decrease little by little and the shocking high prices for us. There is no day of monitoring the prices of markets and merchants. In the city of Rafah, the prices of winter clothes, blankets and mattresses are very high, and the agency used to give each family one mattress to whoever is enough, whether for me, my husband or my child. The price of a bag of flour was 450 shekels, equivalent to $121, and the price of a carton of milk was 110 shekels, equivalent to $29, and a bag of 60 diapers was 210 shekels, equivalent to $56.

We did not know what to buy for food, personal hygiene items, clothes, and medicines needed for any emergency. The conditions were difficult for everyone, no one gave anyone money and helped them with that matter. And the disaster began to happen one after the other, unfortunately the occupation also destroyed our source of livelihood, our fatigue, our joy, and the project of a lifetime. The pharmacy was destroyed on January 15, 2024. It was treating patients and we gave free treatment to many difficult and poor cases. Compensation is from our Lord, praise be to God.

After that, the occupation requested evacuation to Mawasi Khan Yunis and we were displaced and the sadness does not leave us. We live in a 2*2.5 meter tent that is not suitable for living, does not provide heat, nor protects us from the cold. There is no bathroom to relieve ourselves and shower. Our lives were destroyed psychologically, health-wise and financially. We hate ourselves. There is no place to live. We want to leave Gaza. We have no life there.

I created this link to help me and my family provide food, personal hygiene tools, repair my tent, and provide some of the medicines to reopen the pharmacy because there are many difficult things that need medicine and treatment. I hope you will help me and stand by me to restore part of my life to what it was before October 7. Share my story by donating or sharing it with friends. Thank you to everyone who tried to help us.

I am Dr. Diana, a pharmacist from Gaza. Today we are being asked to evacuate the city, as if displacement is just a normal move… But the truth is, it’s an uprooting of everything: my tent, my food, my memories, my dreams. I lost my pharmacy, which was my source of livelihood, and I am now in my ninth month of pregnancy, with nowhere safe to go. I have nothing to start over with… and the danger increases every day. I call on the honorable and free people of the world to stand with me… to share my suffering and help me continue.

My family and I are moving to the south, but unfortunately, this will require a large sum of money for transportation costs and the purchase of a new tent, as mine is worn out by the sun.

Now, I desperately need your help. Please help me escape death.

I hope you support my campaign.

I write this as I prepare simple clothes for my unborn child, with tears and joy mixed with fear… Every donation helps me, and every share may give my child a less difficult start. Please share my voice… I need you to continue on this path.

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Hallay Majid

Hi, would it be possible to remove the requirement of a phone number in order to donate? Thank you.

20 days ago

David Write

Let me know if that’s fixed now.

18 days ago

Ends in 14 months

30 Nov 2026, 9:14am

David Write