It finally worked. We were able to send some money to my mother and sister. THANK YOU🙏 for your help, donations and prayers.
The fees are very high because the occupying army is blocking the flow of cash and bank transfers.

The bombing is still going on. On top of that, at this time of year, insects, mosquitoes and parasites are multiplying like wildfire in the dirty water.
As a result, my entire family, like the rest of the population, has fallen ill. Almost everyone suffers from jaundice, liver disease, kidney problems, gastrointestinal complaints, mosquitoes and insect bites,

Unfortunately, medicines are also very rare and sometimes expensive.
Hospitals have almost all been destroyed or are totally overloaded.

I am in daily contact with my family. After the occupying forces murdered the employees of the World Central Kitchen, the situation has calmed down somewhat. There is still bombing and shooting here and there, but not with the same intensity as before. There is more food than before, but still not enough to end the famine. Prices fluctuate greatly and more frequently. A few days ago, my sister Lamia could ONLY buy a single onion for 10 shekels (about 3 USD)!

The holy month of Ramadan has come to an end. to celebrate Eid, the wounds are extremely deep and many dear people are no longer with us. The grief is enormous. Nevertheless, the Palestinian people live on. My family is in the middle of it. the old, young and new generations need hope. That’s why my family tried to give some joy and confidence to this generation. That is important to survive.

My sisters baked cakes, dressed their children in clean clothes and tried to celebrate Eid with their children.

My mum in the middle of her daughters and grandchildren.
We keep hoping and praying that we can sit together again, eat, laugh and LIVE. (Pictures from 31.03.2024)

The pictures of the destruction of the Al Shifa hospital have gone viral. Thank God the area where my mum lived was not heavily bombed. My mum went back to the shelter with my brother.

My sister Arwa and Lamia have lost everything again!
The area where they sought shelter was totally destroyed and burnt. Now they are staying with my sister Amani until they find a new shelter where they can live. (Videos from 03.04.2024)

Thank you for keeping sharing and supporting my family
May God bless and protect you all🤲🫶

My mum and brother are still alive and safe🤲

This morning I phoned my sister Amani to enquire about the situation because a house in her street was bombed at night. Thank God none of them are injured. The neighbours‘ families have unfortunately been martyred.😔 May God have mercy on them and reward them with eternal life in paradise.
They didn’t know anything new about my mum and brother until then. and talked about possible ways to get to them or prayed that they could find a way out of the battlefield.
Otherwise, we talked about food and price trends. many prices have fallen. which makes it much easier to buy food for a large family.🤲 and so we said goodbye.

About 3 hours later, my sister Manal wrote that my mum and brother had miraculously escaped from the battlefield.
🤲🤲🤲 GOD HAS INCREASED OUR PRAYERS . THANK GOD🤲🤲🤲🤲

i called my mum immediately. she told me how they miraculously escaped from the battlefield.

They had been hiding in the house for about 10 days. the neighbouring house and its inhabitants were bombed days ago. Today, a boy came out of the Rubble to look for and fetch water for himself and the remaining family members. The boy was immediately shot in the street and the women of his family ran screaming in the street to get his body back. My mother and the neighbours heard the screams and saw that there were many people in the street. All the people in the street took this one chance to get out of the houses and run away. my mum barely made it out of the line of fire. my brother could get a wheeled undercarriage and pushed my mum away to safety. Later, my sister Arwa and Amani came to the escape site and organised a donkey cart to take my mother to Amani’s house. Now she is with my sister Amani.

Unfortunately, a little boy had to die. May his soul find eternal rest and peace in God’s paradise. He saved the whole street. with his life. THANK YOU little Angel🤲 God have mercy on him.🤲

Now there are mother, Amani, Arwa and Lamia and their children, a total of 13 people in 2 small, partially destroyed rooms.

We continue to pray to God for mercy and thank him for saving my mother and everyone else.🤲

THANK GOD🤲

Yesterday 23.03.2024 Arwa, Lamia and their children fled from their shelter and ran under bombs and gunfire towards Amani’s house. Thank God they arrived slightly injured but safe. 🤲
Now they are looking again for a new safe place to stay.

My mum and brother are still in the danger zone and unfortunately we can’t call them.

Please Keep praying for all of them. God will release them all for us and for all people. 🤲

if you can, please share our fundraising campaign and help to get my family out of the war zone.
https://gofund.me/cd279d17

Mona and her children are now safe for the time being. They have been staying at the house of Abdulrahman’s friend, a noble man who has helped them get out of the danger zone. They will stay there until they find a new shelter. THANK GOD🤲

BUT!

Mum, Arwa and Lamia and the children are fine, the drinking water is gone and they are now drinking salty water. the situation is still critical and dangerous

Please Keep praying for all of them. God will release them all for us and for all people. 🤲

For more than three days, my sister Mona and her children Abeer, Duaa, Ahmad and Abdelrahman (disabled) have been surrounded in the building where they are seeking shelter. Without food and without water.
Today my brother Ibrahim was able to speak to her on the phone and find out more about the situation.

All the men were arrested and dragged along, about 70 men were surrounded on all sides by 3 metre high earth walls and mounds.
Women and children were gathered on the ground floor of the building. They didn’t know when and where they were allowed to go outside, they were waiting for orders from the occupying soldiers!

Later today they would be allowed to leave the building. They had to walk eastwards. They arrived at a somewhat secure place for the time being. Only for tonight and possibly until tomorrow. After that they will try to continue eastwards to Abeer’s house near Amani. that would be in Al Shejaiyah. the situation is and remains difficult and changes every moment.

Lamia and Arwa are fine, they are stuck at home and can’t do anything. My mum is also fine, she is in the same situation. The situation is absolutely dangerous. We hope it will calm down again soon.
Please pray for all of them. God will release them all for us and for all people. 🤲

since last night 17.3.2024 the area around Al Shifa hospital has been bombed again. my mother, brother, sister Arwa Lamia and Mona are still there. sister Mona is the closest to the hospital. Today 18 March 2024, like everyone else in the area, she had to fear for her life and the lives of her family. This morning, several neighbouring houses were bombed and completely destroyed. My sister cried on the phone and asked us what she should do. It is possible that the house in which she is seeking shelter is the nearest house. She can’t go out because the tanks and snipers are outside. we didn’t know what to say. Except that we prayed to God to protect them and have mercy on them. 😔

The situation eased a little towards the evening, but everyone had their bags ready in case they had to leave. They also have all their clothes on (hijab), so at least they are not exposed.

the photo shows them a few days ago at the beginning of Ramadan: from left Abeer (Mona’s daughter), Ibrahim (Amani’s son), Arwa, Lamia, Mona and her son Ahmad, Osama (Arwa’s son) and Abdelrahman Mona’s son

Sharing with you my sisters‘ daily struggle to find food in the Besieged Gaza City in the north of the Besieged Gaza Strip. They forage around and when they find something that looks edible they try to figure out if it is safe to eat it and feed the hungry children.
Sometimes they send us plant photos asking if it is safe to eat. We try our best to search and Google the pictures and descriptions.
What is the chance that we or Google make a mistake and misidentify a plant and tell them it is safe to eat and feed hungry children? Some pictures below show what they are foraging and we managed to identify

• Wood Sorrel, edible
• Sago Palm, Toxic for humans and pets
• Beet leafs, edible
• Araucaria Pine, nuts are edible, but not sure about the trunk sap

Donations are still needed to Give life to my family in Gaza.
Please donate or pass on my fundraiser details to people you know.
Your support will grant life and keep hope alive in humanity.
God Bless you all.

Ibrahim Joha

We mourn the loss of our youngest family member
Watean (9 days)
She left us today 12 March 2024.
We hope she finds her rest and peace in paradise.
May God have mercy on her and receive her into his grace.

Amen🤲🏻

Her newborn daughter „Watean“ (9 days old today) had to go to hospital yesterday and has to be kept alive in a baby incubator. Unfortunately, she has not eaten much in the last few days, neither from her mother nor from the bottle. The first tests did not show such good results. She is dehydrated and has blood infections.
WE are holding our hands up 🤲 and praying that she survives.

on the other Site, my sisters sent new photos of their „at the moment“ everyday life and how their children are adapting to the current situation and discovering new skills and tasks. they would like to express their gratitude to all those who support us.

The new member of the Joha family is called Watean. It’s my sister Maha’s new baby Girl.

For a bit of privacy, her husband set up a tent in the courtyard of the building where they had previously shared with hundreds of others. This way he can support his family better and more directly.

Thank God we can communicate with our family almost every day. By phone or internet.
They are doing well. Thanks to your support and donations, we have been able to send money in the last few days so that they can buy food. According to the media, food is extremely scarce or even non-existent in northern Gaza.
My sister Amani and Arwa told me that they have to walk for 2-3 hours in the market and in the streets to find or buy some food.
We hope that more food will arrive soon. Otherwise money won’t help either! because they have nothing left to buy to eat. There is only hygiene, decoration, etc…  nothing edible.

We continue to pray that it will stop very soon, preferably immediately, because if my family has not been killed by the bombing till now, they will be killed by hunger

today 3.3.2024 around 1 o’clock in the morning my sister Maha had her baby. it is a daughter.
Mum and baby are doing well.

This reminds us: where there is death, there is also life and hope.

We pray to God to protect them all. May the baby bring hope, life, peace and freedom to her family

I apologise. unfortunately I have been ill for the last few days and have not been able to post. at least not here on the website.
Now I’m feeling better and can report something positive. THANKS to your donations, support from family and friends, we were able to support my sisters, mother and brother financially so that they can buy food and drinking water.
In the last few days, some relief supplies have also been allowed into northern Gaza. That’s enough and it’s not reaching everyone. BUT the price situation in the food market has been affected enormously. e.g. 1kg of flour used to cost more than 100 shekels (25€). now it only costs 40-50 shekels (10-12€). It is still enormously expensive. But it is an enormous relief for the people there, who have little or no money.

500€ is just enough for about 1-2 weeks maximum.

We hope that there will soon be an end to this misery and continue to pray that my family will survive this crisis.

Many thanks to all our supporters, without you we really would never have made it.

THANK YOU🙏

My sister Hanan has finally managed to upload the photos she took during her last visit to my pregnant sister Maha in Deir El balah. There are also new photos of her 3 girls Fairouz, Jouri and Shams.

2 days ago we were finally able to reach my mum and talk to her for about 2 hours. 🤲
She is still doing well, but you can hear and hear how she is mentally at the end. she has no strength left. the war in Gaza is killing her.

Food is getting scarcer and scarcer in northern Gaza. The last remaining food supplies are running out.
Thanks to your DONATIONS, we have been able to support our family financially in the last few days and send money so that they can buy food and drink.

In southern Gaza, in Rafah, the situation is also extremely tense. My sisters Manal and Hanan always have their belongings ready, so they run away immediately if the attacks start.

My sister Maha is now 9 months pregnant. It could happen at any time. We are praying for her and her baby to get through it 🤲.

My sister Amani and her family are working hard and diligently to make the only non-destroyed room in their home habitable. At night they sleep with the husband’s relatives and during the day they go to stay in what is left of their home. She tries to create some life and normality for herself and her children. Returning to her destroyed flat, with only one habitable room left, was the first step.

Next, the family wants to provide water – not just for themselves, but for the entire neighbourhood. With financial support from outside, they could buy diesel for a still-functioning water pump in a centrally located well. Unfortunately, things turn out differently. Al Shuja’yyah is attacked again. The occupying forces ordered the residents to leave the zone immediately, so my sister and her family fled back to their relatives. They have taken some of their few provisions with them – just as much as they could carry.

of danger and bombing is everywhere.
2 days after the situation in northern Gaza has eased somewhat, today there were again shootings and attacks on various streets and places. We could hardly reach anyone again today. Only Ibrahim, son of Sister Amani, reported that everyone is still alive.

The husband of my sister Maha in Deir Albalah, Mohammed, has contacted us via Whatsup. they are also still alive.🙏

Here are some photos and videos that I have received over the last few days.

After almost 10 days of fear. Yesterday we were finally able to reach my mother, brother, sister Arwa, Mona and Lamia by phone.
They’re all still alive. they are also close to Al Shifa Hospital. The situation has relaxed somewhat. There is no intensive bombing and there are no longer any snipers on the streets.
After almost 2 weeks, my sister Mona was able to contact us and tell us how they survived.
For the last 2 weeks they have lived only on water, which the other refugees who left the building left behind. NOTHING ELSE. Only a second family in the building stayed and sometimes helped with something edible. such as. piece of bread (for 5 people)

Yesterday and today she was finally able to go out and look for and buy something to eat. My sister Amani met her and gave her money which we sent days ago.

My brother Ibrahim in Ireland was able to reach my mother and talk to her on the phone. Everyone is fine.
Thank God they were unharmed.🤲

My sister Amani and her son Ibrahim managed to reach the neighbourhood where my mother and brother lived today 7.2.024. The extent of the destruction continues.
Our family home – destroyed

My sister Amani and her son Ibrahim were able to reach the neighbourhood where my sister Hanan and my aunt lived. There they searched for leftover food, cooking gas cylinders, water and clothes in the houses.
Luckily they found some food. To illustrate the destruction, she sent us the following photos of my sister Hanan’s home, my aunt and her car repair shop

the last few days have been very critical for my mother, brother and sisters who are in northern gaza. they are all near al Shifa hospital. the occupying army has once again carried out intensive attacks and warned people to leave the area.
As a result, all the people ran away in all directions under the rain of bombs. My family first ran away in the direction of East Gaza to find shelter somewhere.

After about 3 days, the situation calmed down a bit and the bombing decreased.

Fortunately, the shelters they were in were not destroyed.

My mum Fahima, brother Ismail, sister Arwa and Lamia are now together again in a sheltered place.

My sister Mona couldn’t flee because her son Abdelrahman is disabled. Thank God. They have remained unharmed. 🤲

My sister Amani decided to go back to her destroyed house in Al Shujaiyya. One room there has not yet been destroyed.
She and her family are tired of running away and finding shelter with strangers.

We have been able to send some money to my family in Gaza in the last few days. Both in the north and in the south of Gaza.
EVERYTHING EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE and VERY EXPENSIVE!
Hardly any relief supplies arrive in the north. There are no other products to buy either. no flour, no water, no vegetables, nothing. in northern Gaza, animal feed is grinded and sold as flour. My family bakes bread from animal feed flour !!!!😭
a 20 kg bag of wheat flour costs around 200-300 US dollars !!!🤯

Instead of letting more food into gaza, they send them corona suits !!!😳

We can’t feed the whole family!!! That’s 9 families, 36 people spread all over the Gaza Strip !!!

What’s more, the bombing of the entire Gaza Strip is still going on.

my sister Maha is now 8 months pregnant. they can hardly find anything for the baby. there is just nothing to find.

They don’t even know how and where the birth will take place. there is no hospital and when there are, they are all full of injured and displaced people.😭

Yesterday was a day of celebration. We were able to talk to almost all my family members on the phone. My nephew Ibrahim, my sister Amani’s son, also sent photos and videos of my beloved mother. SHE IS STILL ALIVE and unharmed.
THANK GOD! 🤲
We were also able to talk to my mother for a few minutes on the phone.
The joy was great but unfortunately very short. 🥺

because as of today all communications are cut again. because the tanks and air strikes have been coming closer and closer to them since yesterday afternoon, where they have found shelter. they no longer know where to go.

My pregnant sister Maha in Deir ELBalah will probably be separated from the rest. According to the media, the middle zone of Gaza is also being separated from southern Gaza.

Very long and difficult days have passed.
A lot has happened since the last post.
Firstly, I was unfortunately unable to continue posting due to illness.

on 13.1.2024 we were able to talk to my brother Ismail, sister Arwa and her son Osama on the phone. and then we agreed that we should talk on the phone at the same time almost every day if possible. so that we can coordinate how we can send the money and so that they can also confirm that they have received it.

On January 14, 2024, I was able to talk to my nephew Ibrahim, my sister Amani’s son, on the phone. They urgently needed help and money to be able to buy food and drinking water. because hardly any aid arrives in northern Gaza and when it does, it is not enough for all the residents there. There is no more food there, and if there is, then only the leftovers from the bombed stores and supermarkets, which are sold for WAY TOO EXPENSIVE. There is currently no source of money for them and they have to buy food for themselves and their children.

That’s why they depend on us and your help and donations.

Unfortunately, war dealers are also multiplying. who exploit the weak and helpless people.
That’s why we are EXTREMELY careful when sending money to my family.

The normal, safe and humane ways to send money are also extremely difficult:
MoneyGram: there is only one branch in Khan-Younis
WesternUnion: refuses transshipment from Germany
German banks; currently refuse In general the transfers to Gaza (see my previous post)

The new magic word was USDt!! a crypto currency! I had to learn, test and try a lot over the last few days until I am now able to handle USDt.

My nephew met a young man who works with an exchange office in the south. They work with USDt currency. Through him we can send money to his USDt wallet and he gives cash to my sisters there.

After several tests with small amounts and confirmation that my nephew had received the money, I was able to send a larger sum to my sisters Amani, Mona and Lamia. Finally ! !

The exchange offices and the money dealers charge very high fees!!! we had to pay 12% fee + currency exchange rate change from US dollar to NIS (new Sheklel)!!!

e.g.: 1 USDt = 1 US dollar
500 USDt = 500 US dollars – 60 dollars 12% fees = 440 US dollars
440 dollars = should be about 1660 shekels
he only gave us 1425 shekels = $377.88
That’s another $60 loss

In the end, out of 500 US dollars, only 380 US dollars remain!!
this is fraud and exploitation!!!

What should we do? There is no other way?
pay or let your family starve! these are the options!!

This war must be stopped immediately

since January 14th Then there was DEAD SILENCE. all communications to Gaza were cut off again.

We could hardly reach anyone for 11 DAYS.

I was only able to reach my sister Hanan in the south because she is near the Egyptian border and has some network coverage from there. Nothing worked at all in northern Gaza

Communications were released again until yesterday, January 21, 2024. We were then able to reach all of my sisters and even my mother. THEY’RE ALL ALIVE! THANK GOD!

At the moment we are concentrating on my family finding a safe place to shelter, food and clean drinking water. Unfortunately, this is extremely expensive at the moment and we need your donations and support.

Please keep donating for my family
Please support stopping the war

My nephew Ibrahim (Amani’s son) sent me photos of our house in Shuja’iyya today. The Joha home ! 😭😔.

There are no words to describe it.😶

Yesterday we got back in touch with my sister Manal in her new shelter in Rafah (Miraj Area). They are now living in a barn there. They made a toilet themselves, got a water tank and put it on the roof. they are trying to make the barn habitable with simple means. In their area, the son of the well-known Aljzeera journalist, Wael Al dahdouh, and his friend were killed. There is still nowhere safe in gaza. we only hope that they survive.

My sister Manal told me how her son Hazem survived twice!🙌 she didn’t want to tell us about it so she wouldn’t worry us!💕

Her son Hazem was almost killed twice, but God’s grace and mercy saved him.

Her son Hazem was almost killed twice, but God’s grace and mercy saved him.
once he was fetching water when suddenly a rocket landed next to him. the men next to him were torn to pieces. he remained uninjured 🙌
the second time an armed quadcopter fired shots and told him and the other boys to stop. out of fear and reflex he ran away. the quadcopter chased him and tried to shoot him. he ran further away until he could hide in a strange house and find shelter.

My sister Manal was also able to send us a few photos, which I have also posted here.

Ibrahim, my sister Amani’s son, has reached us again. They are still living in Gaza City, where there are still the prisoners.
The money hasn’t arrived yet, but should arrive soon.
if possible we can take photos of the area and also of the family home in Shuja’iyya.
He said that the area is completely destroyed and there is hardly any chance of living here.

We continue to hope that we can find a way to save my family.

we keep hoping and praying. We would like to thank everyone who is supporting us 🙏

My sister Mona called me today via WhatsApp.
She and my sister Lamia are doing well.
They still find shelter in an abandoned hotel near Al Shifa Hospital. She visited my mother 2 days ago. She’s fine too. My mother, brother Ismail and sister Arwa found a small apartment near Shifas Hospital.

My sister Mona explained to me that the eSIM didn’t work because her phone was too old for it. 😔
She also shyly asks us if we can help her out financially. She would pay us back when she went back to work when the war was over!! 😢😭

Ibrahim, my sister Amani’s son also called me on WhatsApp. They are fine. I also tested the eSIM with him. Unfortunately it didn’t work either! his cell phone is not capable

Last Saturday I transferred a sum of money to a person there who then gave the money to my sisters in cash. We are still waiting for the transfer to arrive.😣

This morning I was woken up by a phone call from my sister Amani in Gaza City. when I saw the name I jumped out of bed! THANK GOD they are alive. 💓

She had found a place where you can pay to use the internet for a short time.
We were able to make a very brief phone call via wahtsapp. But because the line is very bad, we texted and sent vioces.

She told me that my mum, brother, sister and their children are all still alive and well. 🤲🤲

She shyly asked me for financial support because the food there is very scarce and extremely expensive. 😣
I have been trying to send money there for weeks, unfortunately without success. even my bank refused to transfer the money to gaza (see photo). 😠

She has found a trusted person from the place where they are now who can give her money and has relatives here in Europe. I send the money to his relatives here in Europe and he gives the money to my sister there.
I also sent her an eSIM card so that she could try it too.

Now I’m still waiting for confirmation that the money has arrived.

My family tells me that people or exchange offices also deal in cryptocurrency, i.e. I send a sum in crypto to his crypto wallet and he then gives it to my family in cash.
As of now, I have been working on this to create yet another way to send money to my family.
We Palestinians are not only trapped in Gaza but also all over the world. Humanitarian aid to our own families is made difficult and forbidden.

The Nuseirat refugee camp has been bombed for several days. My sister Manal and her family had sought and found shelter there. Until today !!!
The houses around them have all been bombed and destroyed. they have been trying to get out for days. It was very dangerous. This morning they were able to organise transport and fled to Rafah (Kaf Meraj), where Yaser, my sister Manal’s husband, had organised a flat to rent through friends and acquaintances  – rent 1500 NIS (new Israeli shekels) = 410 Us Dollar. The journey of about 25 kilometres cost 1000 NIS = 270 US Dollar!!! 😮

Her son Mohammed wrote us a WhatsApp message to say that they had arrived safe and sound. 🤲. He had to walk about 1 KM to find a network signal.

Unfortunately, we still have no contact with my mother, brother and all 4 sisters in Gaza City. we have been trying to reach them for days. WITHOUT SUCCESS! we can’t reach my sister Mona either. even though we’ve used the eSIM.🫥😣😓

Please pray for us 🤲

I heard a lot about eSIM Cards until I finally tested it with my sister Mona.
It worked !!!! YES! FINALLY!
the network coverage and therefore the connections are very weak BUT it’s a milestone for us. so we can at least keep in touch with text messages bleiben

What is eSIM cards:
you buy an eSIM card over the internet and send the QR code or activation code to the person. This person can then activate the eSIM card on their mobile phone and receive an internet package or telephony package, depending on the tariff they have purchased.
It sounds extremely simple! BUT not in GAZA

the requirements are as follows:

1. there must be local network coverage at all
2. the mobile phone must support the eSIM function at all. it must be a new model (it is best to search for „esim“ in the mobile phone settings).
3. to activate the eSIM, the person must have an internet connection first!!!
4. find a company that sells eSIM for Palestine and Gaza (I tested the „simly APP“)

After very long attempts, my sister Mona was able to find a stable internet connection so that I could send her the QR code of an eSIM card.

yes it works!

the network coverage and therefore the connections are very weak BUT it works!

Thanks be to God

and 

thank you for your support

this morning my sister Mona from Gaza city surprised me with a whatsapp call. my joy was huge when i heard her voice. You, my mum, my sister Lamia, sister Arwa, sister Amani and my brother Ismail are all well and injured.
THANK GOD 🤲
because of the fighting in their place of refuge, they had to move on again and look for another place of protection. My mother, brother Ismail and sister Arwa were able to find a flat near the destroyed Gaza harbour.
My sister Aman also had to move on with her family. they are now sheltering in a building near the Shifa hospital.
the house where my niece Abeer, the daughter of my sister Mona was bombed. she and her family, husband and son were pulled out of the rubble alive.

then my sister Mona decided to move in with her daughter. now they are in a room in a former hotel also near shifa hospital. they are 7 people together.
My sister Lamia first stayed in the last place with my uncle. until my uncle had to leave with his family. she then stayed alone for a while with her daughter Amira. Without anything !!! no food no blankets, NOTHING! she was lying on the bare floor !!!
Ibrahim, my sister Amani’s son, went to check every few days whether the others were still alive or not. he saw Lamia’s situation and told Mona. Mona then brought Lamia to her.

My sister Manal in Nuseirat Refugee Camp tried to move on yesterday and today towards the south, to Rafah. The attacks and the bombing make it impossible to flee. besides that, many people tried to flee to the south before, but came back because there is no more space. no more free tents, no more shelter.
There are only tents for sale!!!!!😶!!!!! from 300-400 US dollars you can get a 2-4 wooden beam with plastic tarpaulin !!!😔

 My sister Manal in Nuseirat refugee camp told me that more people are displaced to the west. They might then be the next to leave their shelter.
My sister Hanan in Rafah-West near the coast was able to send me photos and videos of the people who arrived there today.

My sisters ask me:
How much longer? Is there an end?
What do they want to do with us? Where will they take us?
They should kill us, then we won’t have to live this misery.
😔

we still couldn’t reach my mother, brother and sisters in Gaza City. we hope they are still alive . 😔

I finally finished my family tree page.
Here you can now also get to know my family. may I introduce: My Family

Today the internet and telephone connections came back. Thank God!🤲
I was able to communicate with my sisters in southern Gaza. They also had some internet and could also send photos. (there are posted).
Thank God they’re still alive

Unfortunately we still couldn’t reach my mother, brother and sisters in Gaza City. we hope they are still alive too. we keep praying 🤲

11 days have passed. I try to contact my family every day. Sometimes it works with direct phone calls, sometimes with Whatsapp messages and vioce calls. 🤲

My mother, brother Ismail, my sister Arwa, Mona, Lamia and their children are now sitting in an office room in a building near Shifa Hospital. My sister Amani has moved with her family to other relatives of her husband. first they were near Shuja’iyya and since 2 days they have also moved near Shifa hospital. 😔

today 23.12.2023. i was able to talk to my sister Hanan in Rafah-West on the phone. she told me how they are keeping themselves alive and what the situation is like there.

The aid and donations are arriving very slowly! but they have everything they need to stay alive. they were able to get flour and water. Some tinned food is also available as donations and some is expensive to buy. compared to others, they are a little better off in the container. In Rafah City the exchange offices are open again. so word is getting around. today I sent another sum of money in the hope that it will arraive.

I have also reached my sister Manal. she is in Nuseirat refugee camp. she and her family are also doing relatively „well“. There they also find what keeps them alive. Water, flour and tinned food.

We also reached my brother Ismail by phone today. but only because he was travelling. because there is absolutely no connection in the block where they are seeking shelter.

Unfortunately, the destruction is enormous and can only be compared with the destruction during the world war.

the media and the internet are full of pictures and videos of the destruction. here i only show a fraction of it and especially in the district where my mother and sister lived.

I would still like to thank all the human PEOPLE who have supported me with words, feelings or donations.
Please keep praying for us.

11.12.2023 , i was able to reach my sister Arwa in Shuja’iyya by phone again. This time she was out of breath and scared.
She and my mother, brother, sisters and their children were on their way out of our destroyed house. 😔
They had the opportunity to leave the combat zone in a hurry. The call was again only a few seconds long. During the course of the day, I learnt from my sisters in the south that they were now „safe“ and staying in a nearby hospital until they knew where to go next.🤲
They were moments of fear, where you can’t breathe for fear or you’ll be shot.🫥

From now on my ENTIRE family is homeless and evicted.😶

Today I tried to reach my mum but unfortunately without success! 😔

My sister Hanan in Rafah on the coast was able to send me photos of her new temporary shelter.⛺

For 3 days we had no contact with my family in Gaza City in Shuja’iyya. No telephone, no internet. NOTHING !!!
Every hour and all day long and every day I dial all the numbers of my family in the hope that I can reach at least one person. Also in the news you only hear about heavy fighting in the area ! nothing else.

Today 10.12.2023 we were able to reach my sister Arwa for 22 seconds, who was able to confirm that everyone is still alive. with minor injuries but still alive. THANK GOD 🤲
Unfortunately, all attempts to re-establish a connection failed. I posted a call for help on social media in the hope that someone there would see this and possibly be able to help my family.

I was also able to find some pictures from the social media that show the situation there.

My 3 sisters Manal Hanan and Maha are still „living“ in the south of the Gaza Strip.
There is always the possibility to talk to them on the phone. Unfortunately, internet connections are extremely weak.
My sister Hanan has a shelter near the coast in the south, not far from the Egyptian border. THANK GOD !🤲

There is also some bombing there, but not as heavy yet! 🫥
Day by day, it’s getting harder and harder to find food and drinking water for you and the children. My cousin slept in a queue for 3 nights to get a bag of flour. Food is becoming increasingly scarce in the markets and shops that are still open.

NOTHING is spared! everything is destroyed.
including the Great Mosque of Gaza (Al Omari Mosque) (Wikipedia-Link), which is over 4000 years old. Al Omari Mosque – Google Maps

We don’t know what to do! We pray day after day that it will end soon and quickly, whatever the outcome. 😔

the neighbourhood where my mother and my siblings still „live“ is now becoming a target (see the video from 2.12.2023)

My sister Hanan has fled to Khanyounis. She has found a „shelter“ in Hamad Towers. as you can see in the previous pictures. Today 2.12.2023 5 towers near her were bombed ! She and her family have fled further south in a tent they bought (for $270).

Just pray for them

during this time I was able to transfer $500 to my 3 sister and nephew Ahmad in the south. after 2 failed attempts via WesternUnion 👎 it then went via MoneyGram 👍. THANK GOD.
They split the money between them. Now we know which way it works. At the moment, they can’t do much with money because there’s hardly anything you can buy with money.

Unfortunately we have not found a way to send money to my mother, 4 sister and brother in Gaza City in Shuja’iyya.
The road from the south towards the centre or the north is totally blocked and guarded by tanks and soldiers. EVERY PERSON who tries to pass is shot immediately.
It is only a one-way to the south.

We are still looking for a possibility
😔

After long and difficult days, communication with my family is almost impossible.
Depending on who has radio and some kind of network, they write in the family group and give a sign of life. even there in gaza they can’t communicate with each other. There is hardly any network.

In the meantime, my sister Mona and her children have been evacuated from Shifa Hospital. they are being „sheltered“ again by my mother in Shuja’iyya.

My sisters, Manal, Hanan and Maha and their children are in the south, in Nuseirat refugee camp and in Khan Younis. They are trying to survive there.
The new photos I uploaded today show how they are faring.
There is still bombing everywhere. in the north, south, east, west and center.
They can fill their water canisters every 4 days.

Food is very scarce. Flour to make bread is also extremely scarce.
If they don’t die quickly from a bomb, they will die slowly from hunger.
Sending money via Western Union or Moneygram is also extremely difficult or extremely life-threatening because of the bombing. so far we have tried to send a small amount of money, unfortunately without success.
We keep praying and hoping.

In the night from 7. to 8.11.2023 the street where my mother and my sister were sheltering was bombed. Thank God, no one was injured. The doors and windows in the house were completely destroyed by the pressure wave. 2 of my sisters decided to move further south and find shelter there. My sister Hanan moved to Khan Younis and my sister Maha moved to Nuseirat refugee camp. After a long turtor they arrived safely yesterday. My mother, brother, 2 other sisters, Arwa and Lamia, stayed in the house because their health doesn’t allow them to walk much and far. AND because there is no real shelter anywhere. It’s a 50:50 chance. Places of refuge and hospitals are EXTERMELY overcrowded and the conditions are absolutely inhumane. That’s why many think to stay at home, because they can at least die there with dignity. Unfortunately, we don’t know what the situation is with their homes because many places are now completely destroyed and it is currently life-threatening to visit them. The duration of a fundraising campaign is limited to a maximum of 30 days. This is set by Paypal. After this campaign has expired, I will start a new one to be able to continue helping my family From the bottom of my heart, I thank you for your support and prayers. Your words and compassion also give us hope to live on. God bless and protect you

Since yesterday evening 27.10.2023 at about 11 p.m. all connections to my family and the whole region have been cut off. Until today 28.10.2023 at 1:30 p.m. I can not reach my family. We pray that the connections will be re-established soon or that they will be reactivated by the occupier.

1000 Thanks to all who donated Another homeless person in my family. Unfortunately, my sister’s flat where she lived with her family was bombed today. Thank God no one was hurt.