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My Journey to Escape the War in Gaza

My name is Abdelmajed. I never imagined I’d be sharing my story like this, but life in Gaza has become unbearable. I am a survivor of the war here, and in the blink of an eye, everything I once knew—my home, my safety, my community—was ripped away from me.

The war has transformed Gaza into a graveyard of broken dreams. The buildings that once stood as symbols of life and resilience are now piles of rubble. Every corner is filled with the echoes of explosions. Every moment is shrouded in uncertainty. There is no security. There is no stability. There is no light at the end of the tunnel.

Basic needs have become luxuries. Food is scarce. Clean water is even scarcer. Hospitals are overwhelmed and under-resourced, and there is almost no medical care to be found. Every night, families go to bed hungry, praying they’ll wake up to see another day. The cost of basic necessities has skyrocketed, and it’s become a daily battle just to survive.

I’ve seen things I never thought possible—standing in long lines for a piece of bread, rationing every drop of water, and watching my people suffer in silence. I have lost everything—my home, my safety, my dignity.

Escape from Gaza is my only hope, but it’s almost impossible without financial help. The cost of evacuation is far beyond my means, and without support, I’m trapped in a warzone with no way out.

I’m reaching out to you now, in the hopes that someone, anyone, can help. I am not asking for luxury. I am asking for a chance—just a chance—to live. A chance to escape this never-ending cycle of fear, destruction, and loss. A chance to rebuild my life somewhere safe, where I can begin again, where I can find hope once more.

Any amount you can give will help me get closer to safety. Even the smallest donation will make a difference—it could be the lifeline I need to survive. If you are unable to donate, please share my story. The more people who hear it, the better the chance that I can find the support I desperately need.

Your kindness and support mean the world to me. You’re not just helping me escape a war; you’re giving me a chance to live, to rebuild, to breathe again.

Thank you for listening. Thank you for caring.

Vetted by @gazavetters

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dni lists don't work and i am well aware of this but just know that if you are a zionist/pro-israel and/or you think the israel/palestine situation is a "neutral situation" please know that you are extremely unwelcome here and will be made to feel that way. free palestine

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From Two poems by Mahmoud Darwish

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the fuck is “I'll text you later” lets fuse our souls together smh

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unfolding into another spring

mahmood darwish, sylvia plath, v.e. schwab, ana mendieta

buy me a coffee

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“March roses shall burn me in the land where I was first born. / Pomegranate blossoms will conceive of me, / and I will be born from it once more.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, from “With the Fog So Dense on the Bridge,” in Almond Blossoms and Beyond, tr. Mohammad Shaheen

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“The body is a place of violence. Wolf teeth, amputated hands. Cover yourself with a cloak of leaves, a coat of a thousand furs, a paper dress. The dark forest has a code. The witch sometimes dispenses advice, sometimes eats you for dinner, sometimes turns your brother to stone…”

— Introduction to The Body in Fairytales by Jeannine Hall Gailey (via thelastoracleofdelphi)

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Chore Scorpion: I come from the toughest meanest place you can imagine. I want to be gentle, I want to die gently, but It seems that when life gets hard I have to get harder to match.

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Russian Doll (s2, 2022)

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ANNIE MURPHY as Ruth Brenner in RUSSIAN DOLL - 2.02 “Coney Island Baby”

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Fleabag 2.04 | Russian Doll 2.07

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Pablo Schreiber

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“Speculative Realism” - Bradley Trumpfheller

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russian doll season 1 was “how to keep yourself alive when the whole universe, including your brain, wants you dead”

russian doll season 2 was “how to forgive yourself, and everyone else, for turning out the way we all have”

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LOOK AT THEM RIGHT NOW !! I AM IN LOVE WITH THEM YOUR HONOR !!!

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“With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here’.”

— Warsan Shire (via bexrps)

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“We even had the same copy of Anna Karenina on our shelves (the old Oxford edition) - small details, perhaps, but were these not grounds enough on which believers could find a new religion?”

Essays in Love by Alain de Botton, (1993)

—Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (1977)