Meet Hamouda.

He and his family have been displaced since October 27th when his home was completely destroyed.

Your donations are allowing 17 yr old Hamouda to make decisions that have saved the lives of his family more than once. Hamouda has many dreams. He wants to finish school and bring the first ice cream truck to Gaza, but he must survive.

In the scramble to escape as the bomb hit their house, Hamouda, his mom, two sisters, little brother and grandpa were separated from his dad in October. To this day, they have no information about what happened to him. Hamouda spends a lot of time wondering if his father is alive, if he's being held hostage, are they feeding him, where is he?

For months, Hamouda's family stayed in a middle school converted to an encampment in Raffah. There they were told it was a safe zone and Hamouda was using campaign money to help buy food and even chicken sometimes for other displaced kids.

While staying at the middle school Hamouda traveled back and forth to a shared family home that had been only partially bombed. He knew he needed a plan in case Raffah was invaded. Hamouda risked his life to go clean up rubble and bullet shells, in case the family needed to leave Raffah. Days before the invasion of Raffah, Hamouda packed up his family and they moved into the partly bombed house. The cost of food in the neighborhood was very expensive and the blown out windows made the house freezing at night. Hamouda decided that it was important to share his campaign money. He set up food distribution on the ground floor and got bags and bags of food to his neighbors and people displaced to the streets.

For a few weeks Hamouda was able to cook at home (he is very proud of his cooking and loves making food for his grandpa) until one day he was in the market and shrapnel from a rocket came flying through. Metal splinters became lodged in his foot and ankle. He was able to receive medical care to remove some of the metal but before the last of it was able to be removed...their neighborhood was evacuated.

With metal in his foot, Hamouda had to help his mom pack up his 3 siblings and grandpa and head to a displacement camp at the beach. As soon as they could go back to the house, they tried. It'd been bombed further but they decided it was still safer than being in a tent in sweltering heat with flu, covid and dysentery spreading between malnourished people. Hamouda's little brother had also gotten 3rd degree sunburns on his legs while sleeping in the tent on the beach.

Since June, Hamouda has moved back and forth between the mostly bombed house and the encampment near the sea seven times. Moving with 7 people is exhausting, dangerous and expensive. Amidst the endless displacement, many of Hamouda's friends and neighbors have been martyred. A few weeks ago, to honor the soul of a friend, Hamouda shared water with as many people as possible in the camp.

Supporting Hamouda is also a way to make it possible for him to get extra food and water whenever he can to help feed the people around him. Food is beyond scarce right now, they haven't had eggs or chicken for many weeks. Donations are helping Hamouda and the people around him push through unthinkable circumstances.

Everyday Hamouda and his family pray for a ceasefire. Thank you for your support, every donation matters.

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Hamouda has big dreams and needs our support to survive

By Fed Up For Palestine

Hamouda has big dreams and needs our support to survive

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