One of the members of the “Alzanoun family” says: “The war started about a year ago, and we were exposed to death many times. The bombing was everywhere and at all times. Every day we fled and moved from one place to another, and there was no safe place. On the third day of the war, the bombing was getting closer and closer, and phosphorus bombs were falling on us. If it hadn’t been for the rain that day, death would have suffocated us from inhaling the toxic phosphorus. We fled from Gaza City to the Nuseirat camp, and we stayed for three days before the shells started falling on us. We survived again and returned to Gaza, but the situation got worse. Death is everywhere. Day after day, we lose many loved ones and friends. We decided to leave the city again after the rubble fell on us in the Shati camp area. We walked on foot and passed by the Israeli army. We crossed the Netzarim checkpoint, and innocent people were killed in front of us. We saw corpses all the way from Gaza to the city of Rafah. We stayed there for 6 months without shelter. My father is far away from us.” With my grandmother, my father is attached to our land and our home and did not leave Gaza, he and my grandmother who was born in 1941 "83 years old", she cannot travel long distances, and they are displaced on foot, they escaped death many times in Gaza, our exit from Gaza was a salvation, and displacement to areas that the Israeli occupation army claims are safe, in the first days we arrived in Rafah, rubble fell on us in the Shaboura area more than once, the bombing, fear and tension did not stop, we could not sleep, since the beginning of the war we did not sleep comfortably, we wished for the least of things to sleep with peace of mind, sleep comfortably, we did not forget the targeting of our friends before our eyes, and we could not forget our companions who turned into pieces, we did not forget that we were afraid to eat a lot of bread for fear of hunger, we left the house forced without clothes, so there were many cold nights without warmth, Ramadan came to us without a family, displaced each one of us in an area, separated from each other, they were difficult days that we spent calling each other, and crying, they were not easy moments for us This is how we lived before the Israeli army entered Rafah by land, and we were forced to leave the city to Al-Bureij for two days. It was difficult to stay there, because it is a border area, so we headed to Deir al-Balah, and here we are today living in difficult circumstances and we could be displaced at any moment. Are we up for life?! Yes, but without anything. And supporting and helping us to get rid of the difficult circumstances and survive the war is what we want. My little sister Ola is 11 years old, she hopes to get an education and live her life normally like children, she cannot take the simplest rights. My other brother finished high school with a grade of 97.4% and could not enter university because of the war, and I, the older sister, and my older brother, finished university, but each of us has goals and dreams. Your support for us will give us a chance to survive first and to rebuild our destroyed lives and complete our education and reach goals crowned with success in a country where there are no wars and where there is security and peace.
The cost of peace and security we need to get out of Gaza.
The cost of our exit from Gaza per person is 5,000£, and we, 6 people, need 30,000 £ to exit the Rafah crossing into Egypt.
We need to rent a house for a year in Egypt to arrange and organize our lives.The cost of renting a house is 12000£ for a year, and the tuition costs for my brother and sister are 12£ . After that, we want to find safety and peace in a European country by applying for legal immigration, and these procedures cost us 26,000 pounds sterling.