I would like to share with you a video by two people that I've gotten to know over the last couple of months. Hadeel and Abed (@twogazans) are two young people who are engaged and want nothing more than to get married and restore their business.
They have been sharing their life in Gaza on Youtube and I recommend you check them out, but please watch the video below first. It was filmed about a month ago when the ceasefire deal was first announced. They share their thoughts and feelings, their hopes and dreams, their desire for safety and freedom, for the small things, as well as their fears for what they will find and experience, the people they have lost, the experiences and memories they have to reckon with.
It is both wonderful to see their faces light up, as well as sobering to hear them speak about their losses.
They speak in Arabic, but you can put on automated closed captions, which will either immediately auto-translate to your own language, or create automated Arabic closed captions, which you can then ask to be auto-translated in the settings menu. It's not perfect, but it definitely gets the message across.
At the end of the video they ask us not to forget them, the people in Gaza. Do not forget to provide moral and financial support as they try to rebuild their lives as well as their homes.
Hadeel and Abed also have a fundraiser of their own, which they've had to restart recently because they had to find someone who would be able to host the fundraiser for them. Luckily, they were able to find someone in the US who could do so.
Hadeel and Abed have been verified by @gazavetters! They are #324 on their spreadsheet, which you can find linked in their pinned post.
The spreadsheet still links to their old fundraiser, which is now closed down. However, if you go to old posts by @twogazans, you will find that old fundraiser still linked, such as for example in this post. You can compare that link to the one in the gazavetters spreadsheet and you will see it is the same one.
Because they have recently had to restart their fundraiser, they are still very low on funds! Only $262 has been raised and the last donation was over two weeks ago!
If you are able to donate, then please do, and please share this post so others who might be able to donate might see it.
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