Last month, Fares and Marie posted the following updates to their campaign, Evacuate Fares and his family from Gaza:
January 30, 2025 (Fares):
Sadness, despair, broken heart
These are my feelings for days now, after ceasefire. I thought I would feel much better but I can’t shake these feelings off. I guess it’s PTSP. I don’t even know how to articulate it.
I’m in need of help, and I feel horrible asking for help. But for the millionth time, I keep on swallowing my pride if I want to survive.
My dear friends, any help you might be able to provide for me, is my lifesaving. Literally.
I wish I could work and earn the living. Oh how much I wish I could! I still dream of normal life and being independent man. Even though in such circumstances my dreams are just distant dreams…they keep me alive. I pray one day they will come true.
Right now, you are my saviors. You saved me so many times. You saved my family. You saved my mother and little brother to evacuate to Egypt. You saved human lives. You saved one family. You fed us, literally.
I hope one day, I will be able to save somebody. But right now, you are saving me.
And I thank you for any of your support, no donation is too small. I hate to even ask for help, I am a proud person, but I am literally pushed to the edge.
Please keep us in your prayers, my dear friends. Thanking you with all my heart
January 24, 2025 (Fares):
“And what now, when pain is all remains?”
So hard to articulate my feelings. Of course I am happy and grateful for ceasefire. That’s the most important for Gaza. The ceasefire.
But going on with life now feels surreal. Somebody described Gaza all in rubble as “moonscape”. I believe all of you saw the images coming from Gaza these days. How could you describe a city that once was, and now is all mass of grey rubble? Not a single house remained. Not. A. Single. One.
There are tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds, martyrs under the rubble. People are trying to recover their bodies and give them a burial they deserve. There are so many people missing and their loved ones, survivors, by identifying the remains of their loved ones, mostly by clothes, skulls or some details, are also burring their hopes.
Scenes are apocalyptic. The smell of death is everywhere.
I can’t describe the pain seeing places I used to walk, cities, villages, literally killed and destroyed. Once vibrant places, now are graves. There used to be people. There used to be children. There used to be laughter. There used to be small shops. There used to be markets. There used to be small coffee shops. There used to be hospitals. There used to be schools. There used to be universities. There used to be mosques. There is nothing left. There used to be beautiful, humane society in our Gaza, that is destroyed by terrorists supported, financed and politically covered by “Democratic World in the West”. With support of “our own Arabic and Muslim world” who betrayed us and sold us for a handful of dollars.
Maybe some places will be rebuilt. But our loved martyrs are not coming back. The pain of loss will never go away. I lost way too many loved ones. I miss them dearly. And with this pain that remains…what do I do now ?
24 January 2025
Gaza
Fares abulebda
January 19, 2025
Fares:
“It’s easy to be a fighter, but it’s difficult to be the people of Gaza”
I saw this on one video among many captured by Gazans celebrating a ceasefire. These are the words of our resistance.
And this encapsulates it all.
The biggest sacrifice and the highest price was paid by the people of Gaza. Mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandchildren…entire families…friends…neighbors…colleagues…common people…
Entire families and bloodlines destroyed, erased from civil registries.
Gaza is in rubble. We shall see what future brings. We shall see how long this ceasefire will last. We hope and pray forever, but knowing the occupation- it won’t. Their goals and motives are widely known. They don’t want peace- they want a piece, a huge piece of territory in the Middle East.
My emotions are mixed and I hardly find the words to write. My losses are enormous, and I am a lucky one, I am a survivor. But I am deeply wounded and my scars are deep. The home I lost, which is bombed to the rubble, is hard enough. But what about the loss of the people I loved? My family members? I would give thousands homes for bringing them back. Thought extremely hard, I managed to survive in a plastic tent. But my heart will hardly survive without all the loves ones I lost. That grief is so deep.
I don’t know what future brings for me, for Gaza. All I know is that nothing will ever be the same.
Without you, my dear friends, I would not be able to go on. You helped me financially, yes, YOU, MY DEAR FRIENDS, saved my mom and my little brother Tariq to evacuate. YOU saved them with your donations.
YOU, my dear friends, FED ME AND MY FAMILY.
And YOU, MY DEAR FRIENDS, showered me with love and support in the darkest days of my life.
If I lived thousands years, I wouldn’t be able to repay you.
To say I love and appreciate you, is understatement.
You are all part of my wounded heart.
19 January 2025
Gaza
Fares abulebda
Marie:
We are holding tightly to hope—hope for the temporary ceasefire to take hold at any moment, and even more so, for a lasting, permanent cease fire. To the end of genocide and to Israeli occupation. To a free Palestine!
Our hearts are with our dear friend Fares and his family during this critical time. They need every ounce of love, strength and support we can give them.
To those who continue to give, time and time again, we see you. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. To those who have shared or given even once, know that your kindness is felt and deeply appreciated.
If you’re in a position to help, your support can make an incredible difference. Should the border reopen, Fares and their family will need resources to evacuate safely. Every contribution offers not just hope but a path to action during this time of urgent need.
Sending solidarity from Seattle,
Britt Marie
January 18, 2025 (Fares):
“Awaiting the ceasefire, counting the hours, minutes, seconds”
And it feels like eternity. This is not the first time I am doing ceasefire countdown. Unfortunately, I have experience with number of this horrible situation.
You know that the day, especially the night, is the worst for us? Cause the genocidal monsters are on a killing spree and are killing as many of us as they can. They know they will be forced to stop (at least for a period of time, cause this ceasefire is temporary), so they have to follow their demonic instincts.
If you don’t believe me, check out for yourself. There are tons of proofs, testimonials, videos, pictures. Can you imagine how do we feel tonight?
And how would you feel, awaiting the cessation of massacres, hoping you will be among the ones who will be alive till 8:30? We don’t know who will be alive by tomorrow. We are entirely in the hands of God and our destinies are written already.
And if we are to be alive till ceasefire…we are continuing our uncertain lives in most horrible living conditions. Gaza is a rubble. Our small strip has been destroyed so survivors can’t go back to normal lives. As if our lives living in besieged Gaza was ever easy…
Occupation is already talking about “returning to continuing the war” after temporary ceasefire period. They already received support from their sponsor and patron publicly that they will “support and help them should they decide to return to fighting”. Yes, that’s new American administration already speaking. But we knew this already even without this statement.
So what is it there for us to hope? Maybe we will survive tonight sadistic and brutal bombing and maybe we won’t. Maybe we will be killed after ceasefire?
Warlords are playing with our lives as we were pawns in their hands. We are clearly not humans for them and are just mere numbers.
I can’t think clearly now, my dear friends. I don’t know what will happen. I just want to ask you to keep us in your prayers.
Nobody is coming to defend us, nobody is coming to stop the monsters. We are on our own.
We only have Allah with us
18 January 2025
Gaza
Fares abulebda
January 15, 2025 (Marie):
Fares posted, “Looks like a ceasefire coming.”
I’ll be honest—I immediately started searching for updates. I don’t trust past promises, but even some reliable international outlets are saying it’s possible, so I’m holding onto hope.
At the same time, Palestinian activists warn that even if a ceasefire happens, Israel will likely stay inside Gaza, maintaining checkpoints, control, and “military operations,” tightening the siege. It’s not a real ceasefire—it’s an attempt to stop the daily massacres. This is just another way to maintain the occupation, blockade, apartheid, and displacement.
Still, we need HOPE. The world is waking up to what the U.S., western allies, and Israel are doing.
Right now, Fares and his family need strength. They might get a chance to evacuate if Rafah reopens.
So, to the thousands of followers here—please do what you can and chip in. I’m making micro-donations myself. Every dollar matters. Let’s show up for them.
As always, thank you for your ongoing support.
Britt Marie
Seattle, WA
January 10, 2025 (Fares):
“About news and “news” circulating in Gaza”
It’s no wonder we are being bombarded not only by bombs but also with many rumors, news and some fake news.
The level of hardship is enormous, suffering of our people is unspeakable.
We are waking up and going to sleep with only one wish: peace.
We hear stories of ceasefire negotiations, of invasions, of death and hope. Many times we are left disappointed. Sometimes we don’t dare to hope anymore. But in spite of all this…hope never dies. We keep it alive.
It’s so hard to keep sane and simply survive living through genocide, every day, every moment can be the last.
We never let hope die. Hope is part of our Gazan DNA. Hope is the air we breathe. Hope is essential part of our faith.
We keep on praying and hoping. That’s all we have left.
Please keep us in your prayers, my dear friends .
Fares abulebda
10 January 2025
Gaza
January 9, 2025 (Fares):
I can’t properly express my feelings at the moment…I feel a mixture of anger, fear, hopelessness, then my basic instinct of survival timidly but persistently makes presence. We can’t live without hope, hope till our last breath. That hope is life itself.
But this hope is struggling to survive. Do you know how does it feel when you are in life threatening situation? When you are scared to death for your own life and lives of your loved ones? Can you even remotely try to imagine living in constant fear knowing that any random moment might be your last?
They are bombing Gaza. The scenes of horror, of death and destruction are surreal. The images of lifeless bodies, eyes wide open on the corpses, rivers of blood, smell of death all around…they are haunting me. I saw death way too many times staring at me. I’m a young man, with dreams and hopes, I should be thinking of future, of job, family, but I simply can’t.
This is extreme, and I am afraid many people can’t comprehend it.
How many of you have lived through the war?
This is not actually a war. This is slaughter of people who live in a cage and can’t even run for their own life, as we are literally living in open air prison. We can’t defend ourselves, we have no bomb shelters. We have no military. We can’t even try to escape through the sea. We are left to die on our sacred land. In our beloved Gaza.
We don’t count on anyone anymore. Everybody betrayed us and the most we get is purely lip service. We are all alone, we have nothing left to lose but our bare lives.
As time goes by, we understand clearly that we can’t rely on anyone but Allah…
And all we have left is our dignity and honor. We can’t fight hundreds times stronger who gets limitless weapons and money pouring from despicable Western “democracies” just to slaughter us. All we have is each other.
We kneel only to truth and bow only to God.
May God be with you all, and please remember us
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