Sara Ahmed

Sara Ahmed is a 21-year-old artist in Gaza, who has also gone through a lifelong battle with scoliosis, a spinal condition. She had multiple surgeries but they were unsuccessful and made her right leg weak. Due to restrictions on being a Palestinian in Gaza, she hasn’t been able to further treatment.

Nonetheless she persisted with her passion for drawing and won several competitions, eventually being able to attend Al-Azhar University in Cairo, where she attended for a year before the genocide. However, due to the genocide, she has been stuck in Gaza. Her family’s home is one of the very few that had not been bombed, but there was complete destruction all around them.

It wasn’t until recently in October 2024, the IOF launched escalated invasion on northern Gaza throughout the month, which is still ongoing as of the time of this publishing. Sara and her family were in Jabalia and on October 22nd they were forcibly expelled from their home, with the men and women separated. They were forced to walk through tanks and martyrs around them throughout the whole day, and not until midnight did they re-connect with her father and brother.

On July 19, 2025 – her birthday – Sara and her family’s home was bombed to rubble by the IOF. Her scoliosis has since worsened and she is urgently trying to evacuate for surgery and medical treatment to help repair it.