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I met Kholoud not long ago through Instagram. She wrote to me from Gaza — a simple, almost shy message, but one filled with quiet desperation. She was asking for help for her sick mother. Her words went straight to my heart. Since that day, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about them: Kholoud, a young woman, and her mother Kamela, 90 years old — blind, frail, and gravely ill — surviving alone in a small tent in Mawasi, Khan Younis, a region devastated by war. Their home was destroyed, and everything they owned lies buried under rubble. Since then, they’ve been living beneath a thin sheet of canvas, without electricity, without clean water, without food. Kamela has lost over 30 kilos; she suffers from diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, hearing loss, and total blindness. She has an official medical report from the European Gaza Hospital confirming her condition and recommending urgent surgery — but under the current blockade, leaving Gaza is nearly impossible.

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