We Are Dying in Gaza: A Plea for Help from Mansour,17.
"They told us Al-Mawasi was safe. But here, we are starving to death."
My name is Mansour, and I am 17 years old. I am from Rafah, Gaza—or what’s left of it. My family and I were forced to flee our home under Israeli airstrikes, carrying nothing but the clothes on our backs. We ran to Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, a place the occupation called a "safe zone."
But there is no safety here.
Family on the Brink of Starvation
We are a family of five—my parents (47 and 45) and my two brothers (19 and 17). Once, we had a home. Now, we live in a flimsy tent, surrounded by mud, sewage, and despair.
We eat once a day—if we’re lucky.
Clean water is a dream.
Medicine is a luxury we can’t afford.
Disease spreads as hunger weakens us.
My parents grow weaker every day. My brothers and I suffer from severe malnutrition, our bodies aching from vitamin deficiencies. We beg for aid, but none comes.
The So-Called "Safe Zone" Is a Death Trap
The world calls this a "humanitarian zone," but it is an open-air shooting practice with live subjects.
No food.
No medicine.
No fuel.
No hope.
We are not just displaced—we are being erased.
We Are Begging for Your Help
We don’t want to die. Not like this. Not slowly, painfully, forgotten by the world.
We urgently need:
Food to survive this famine.
Medicine & vitamins to treat our malnutrition.
A better shelter—our tent is barely holding up.
Dignity—because we are human beings, not numbers.
Time Is Running Out
Every day, more children die from hunger. More families disappear under the rubble of war and the silent killer of starvation.
"We are dying in Gaza. We are starving. Please help us. Even a small donation can bring us back to life." — Mansour’s brother.
You Can Save Us
No child should starve. No family should be left to rot in a tent. Please, stand with us. Your kindness can save lives.
Donate Now: https://chuffed.org/project/mansour
Follow my story: https://x.com/MnswrGAZAT96947
Do not look away. We are still here, fighting, but we cannot survive without you.
Please, help us live.
— Mansour, from Gaza
At People’s Wire we are connecting with real people on the ground in war zones like Gaza. We want you to hear their stories in their own words. Most of them send us their stories in Arabic. If you find Mansour’s story heartbreaking and dire like we do, please try and help him and his family out. You can donate to him instead of having coffee for a day.
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All lives and needless suffering should matter to us all; however, that’s much easier for a conscience to dismiss when one considers another an innately much lower lifeform. And, although Israel's use of systematic starvation as a means of war and ethnic cleansing against innocent non-combatants, especially children, may occasionally be internationally 'condemned' as ‘intolerable’, the atrocities will ultimately be tolerated by those nations with any ability to hinder the Israeli state's crimes against humanity.
Ergo, such condemnations — which are relatively few when considering the seriousness and scope of the atrocities committed — are but paper tigers.
... According to Wikipedia (Casualties of the Gaza War), "Scholars have estimated 80% of Palestinians killed are civilians. A study by OHCHR, which verified fatalities from three independent sources, found that 70% of the Palestinians killed in residential buildings or similar housing were women and children."
Also, “As of 18 June 2025, over 57,800 people (56,152 Palestinians and 1,706 Israelis) have been reported killed in the Gaza war according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as well as 180 journalists and media workers, 120 academics, and over 224 humanitarian aid workers, a number that includes 179 employees of UNRWA.”
On a mindbogglingly massive scale, human beings are being seen and treated as though they are disposable and, by extension, their suffering and death are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic, relatively civilized and supposedly Christian nations. And it’s even easier for a conscience to do when one considers another an innately lower lifeform.
A somewhat similar reprehensible inhuman(e) devaluation is observable in external attitudes, albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, toward the daily civilian lives lost in prolongedly devastating war zones and famine-stricken regions. In other words, the worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news. It’s an immoral consideration of ‘quality of life’.
With each news report of the daily civilian death toll from unrelenting bombardment, I feel a slightly greater desensitization and resignation. I’ve noticed this disturbing effect with basically all major protracted conflicts internationally since I began regularly consuming news products in the late 1980s.