When war blocks care or education, we build a passage
For people in Gaza and displaced Palestinians, urgent treatment or a path back to education can be halted by closed borders, missing connections, or costs families cannot carry alone.
Human Sea Bridge turns barriers into coordinated pathways. We connect patients and students with hospitals, universities, humanitarian organisations, public institutions and donors able to move a case forward. Our current response is organised through Access to Care and Bridges to the Future, with a focus on Gaza and displaced Palestinians.
Situation overview
Consolidated data as of 31 July 2026
205 requests for assistance received
High humanitarian demand, deliberately focused capacity, and documented results.
Evacuation from Gaza
188Requests for assistance with evacuation from Gaza
Care coordination
17Requests for assistance with care coordination
Including 7 concerning people currently in EgyptOur response
Cases opened and supported
Medical evacuation secured
Each request is assessed against the documented situation, our scope of intervention, and the realistic possibilities for support.
Our Founding Story
The dream of a bridge over the sea
“I could only dream that there existed a bridge over this sea.”
In Gaza, Yaser Al Rayyes imagined a passage between confinement and safety. His testimony gave an image, a name, and a direction to the mobilization that became Human Sea Bridge.
Video Testimony · 3 min 08 sec
Our Programs
Aid to Gaza: two programs to preserve life pathways
Access to Care coordinates medical pathways when essential care becomes inaccessible. Bridges to the Future carefully prepares continuity of higher education for young Palestinians whose studies are interrupted by conflict.
A single method connects them: understand what is blocking progress, gather the necessary evidence, mobilize those who can act, and build the next step.
Our Method
How we work
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Identify
Identify critical medical situations requiring access to care unavailable locally.
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Verify
Gather the medical, administrative, and family information necessary for analyzing and directing the case.
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Coordinate
Coordinate exchanges and connections between families, doctors, hospitals, humanitarian actors, and competent institutions.
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Facilitate
Contribute to building a care pathway that is safe, realistic, and compliant with applicable institutional frameworks.
Early results
Concrete results, achieved step by step
Our first evidence comes from access to care: structured case files, identified medical capacities, and concrete steps taken with competent stakeholders. Bridges to the Future is now preparing its first academic support initiatives.
The Al Rayyes family's journey illustrates the origin of Human Sea Bridge: a mobilization begun in 2025, which became structured action in 2026 to document needs, identify competent contacts, and facilitate coordination of access to care.
Support for a complex medical pathway:
case file prepared for humanitarian coordination mechanisms, private hospital care identified, then exchanges with diplomatic representations to seek acceptance of the patient outside the crisis zone.
We supported a young Palestinian refugee in Cairo towards specialist care by identifying a medical solution, coordinating with a private hospital, organising the care pathway and mobilising the support required.
Our latest news
Al Rayyes Family: 70 Days After Gaza, the Wait Continues in Egypt
Ouest-France reports on the Al Rayyes family’s wait in Cairo, 70 days after their evacuation from Gaza, and on the appeal to the French authorities.
Open Letter — For the Continuation of the Al Rayyes Family’s Medical Care
Several organisations call on the French authorities to enable Arafat Al Rayyes to continue his medical care in France and to bring the family’s visa applications to a successful conclusion.
From Grassroots Mobilisation to Human Sea Bridge: A Story Told by the Press
Over one year, articles, reports and podcasts followed Yaser and the Al Rayyes family — and documented how a personal commitment became a grassroots movement and then a structured humanitarian organisation.
Work with us
Each pathway depends on concrete capacities: donations, organizational commitment, medical, academic, logistical, or institutional expertise.
Choose how you can contribute to opening a pathway.
Donate
Your donation contributes to examinations, translations, travel, temporary accommodations, and procedures essential to documented pathways.
Become a member and get involved
Join the organization, take part in its collective life, and help us sustainably strengthen our capacity for action.
Offer a Capacity
Healthcare facility, university, humanitarian organization, professional, or institution: a concrete capacity can unlock a pathway.