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 24 August 2026
A massive humanitarian need.A deliberately focused response.
requests for assistance received
requests linked to evacuation from Gaza
care coordination requests
requests for continued access to education
Our response
cases opened and supported
medical evacuation secured
Each request is assessed against realistic possibilities.
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 mobilisation that became Human Sea Bridge.
Video Testimony · 3 min 08 sec
Our Programmes
Two programmes 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.
Access to Care
Open a medical pathway.
Coordinate a pathway when essential care is no longer accessible locally.
Bridges to the Future
Enable studies to continue.
Prepare continuity in higher education for young Palestinians whose studies have been interrupted.
A shared method
Our method
How we act
One shared method connects our programmes: understand what is blocking progress, gather useful evidence, mobilise those who can act and build the next step.
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Identify
Identify critical medical situations requiring access to care that is unavailable locally.
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Verify
Gather the medical, administrative and family information needed to assess and direct the case.
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Coordinate
Coordinate exchanges and connections between families, doctors, hospitals, humanitarian actors and relevant institutions.
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Facilitate
Help build a safe, realistic care pathway that complies with the 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 mobilisation 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
Simon Moutquin Amplifies the Appeal for the Al Rayyes Family
After meeting members of Human Sea Bridge in Brittany, former Belgian federal MP Simon Moutquin amplifies the mobilisation for the Al Rayyes family.
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.
Act with us
Choose how to open a passage
Every pathway depends on concrete capacities: donations, associative commitment, medical, academic, logistical or institutional expertise.
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Donate
Your donation contributes to examinations, translations, travel, temporary accommodation and procedures essential to documented pathways.
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Become a member and get involved
Join the organisation, take part in its collective life and help us sustainably strengthen our capacity for action.
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Offer a capacity
Healthcare facility, university, humanitarian organisation, professional or institution: a concrete capacity can unlock a pathway.