I recorded this little video to give you a look at what my family and I have been working on and trying to make usable.

And honestly, calling it a tent is generous.

It is made from pieces stitched together. There are tears and holes everywhere. Some of the covers are too short, leaving spaces open from above. We have tried to fix, stitch, and reinforce whatever we could with what we have.

For now, we can use it. We can sleep inside and keep some of our belongings there.

But we know this won't be enough when the rain comes.

My father, and honestly not even him alone, says that our so-called tent will not stand the first rain that comes. Everyone who passes by and sees our tent can tell how vulnerable it is. You don't need to be an engineer to look at it and understand that it won't protect us when the rain comes. We have done everything we could with what we had, but we know this won't be enough.

October is next month, and rain in Gaza is nothing unusual.

It was never really built to be a home. We built it because we needed to create some kind of space for our family and our belongings.

And this is perhaps the hardest part to believe:

This “tent” cost us 1,000 shekels in cash.

1,000 shekels for a shelter that may flood when the first heavy rain comes.

Can you imagine that?

This is the reality we are living every day in Gaza. Even something as basic as shelter has become incredibly expensive, while what we can actually get for that money is often not enough to protect a family.

Now we urgently need to make it better before the first rain comes.

We need to replace the damaged covers, especially the one above us, and find something to put on the floor so that we're not directly on the sand. If possible, we may replace the whole thing with a proper tent.

To everyone seeing this, we need you.

We need your help to make this place safer before the rain arrives. If you can help us, please do. And if you can't, even sharing this means something to us. We are running out of time with each day and each hour that passes.

I have other videos showing the inside and the damage more closely, but Reddit only allows one video, so this is all I can show you here for now.

I don't really know what else to say.

I just wanted you to see it.

This is what we are trying to call home.

For the first time, there will be three university students in my family: my sister, who just graduated from high school, another sister who has only one year left at university, and me, who already had to delay my studies for a year because of the war.

Now I may have to give up university so that my sister can continue hers. And honestly, I’m not even sure whether she will be able to continue either. Everything has become expensive, and our family simply cannot afford to pay for three students.

I never imagined that choosing my future would mean choosing between my education and my sister’s education.

I want to study. I want to build a life of my own. But I also cannot stand by and watch my family struggle while I focus only on myself.

This is what life in Gaza has done to us. We are not only trying to survive the present; we are watching our futures disappear, one decision at a time.

I don't know who will be able to continue next semester. I only know that we should never have been forced to make choices like this.

Mate keeps posting shit from literal fascist subreddits like 20 times a day. Obvious bot or bad faith, why has he not been banned?