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Hello everyone, I’ve been talking with Israa (@nasseer220) and I wanted to make a post that’s more up to date. Her fundraiser is verified here.

Israa is a young mother with two small children, one toddler and one baby. Her husband has been kidnapped by the IDF, and now she is the sole provider for her family. What’s listed on the gofundme is solely for evacuation funds, and she needs more money for medical care for her father, a cancer patient. Currently she has $1300/2400 needed for an upcoming operation.

Israa is a very kind person with the world on her shoulders--If you’re unable to donate, please share Israa’s story and fundraiser to help her and her family. ❤️

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answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:

tl;dr:

israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.

with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

long answers under the cut!

if you wanna donate to a charity that's absolutely fine, but the thing is most charities (and even the UN!) are unable to make it into gaza in the first place, leaving aid rotting at the egyptian side of the border or subject to israeli settler attacks

not to mention, charities and nonprofits also maintain a paternalistic colonial relationship with the indigenous people they are trying to help, determining what aid they need for them instead of returning power to them and letting them make their own choices

i'm not here to say that one option is better than the other, just that they achieve different things and are equally legitimate. there's an attitude among people who question the legitimacy of these gofundme campaigns that somehow the people promoting them are telling them not to donate to charities. nobody is stopping you from donating to charities. we are just asking that you do not dehumanize the very real gazans in your inbox just because their method of asking for aid is more direct and risky.

unfortunately that's exactly what has happened. because israel destroyed all of gaza's more formalized infrastructure, it seems that organized crime and rampant inflation has taken its place. aid is supposed to be free, but in order to save for evacuation or the cost of living, people have started selling them at an inflated price. and aid that is truly free attracts intense, large crowds that are dangerous to navigate.

this was posted on abc a few days ago

it's pure, unrestrained capitalism. i've had multiple palestinians describe this situation to me confidence. that's why everything's so expensive now. why people have to rent out tiny plots of land for their tents to sit on, why my friend @siraj2024 still has to buy tarps to cover the broken windows of the overpriced bombed out apartment he rented, and why a bag of flour can cost a thousand bucks in the north.

even before israel closed and then bombed the rafah crossing, the egyptian hala travel agency was only allowing people to cross the border if they paid a hefty $5000 USD per adult / $2500 USD per child bribe. it denies doing this, but the hundreds of stories from palestinians say otherwise.

with regard to the economy, here in america we saw something similar happen in the wake of hurricane helene and milton. the podcaster margaret killjoy describes how she saw dual economies rise after asheville was fully cut off from the rest of the country - some people offered each other supplies for free in a sort of mutual aid honor system, and some people required payment when they lent supplies because they themselves needed to buy stuff for their families. these dual economies exist in gaza too. and this means they all still need money to survive.

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I feel like I’ve done all I can do here

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look if one thing reaches the vast majority of american blue voters on this website please just vote for kamala without mentioning palestine or the middle east at all. please. i respect people who are honest about being afraid and not knowing what else to do. just vote and ask other people to vote without trying to justify it for palestinians, even if this is something troubling you morally or something you feel sure you are right about. nine times out of ten when you try to do this you end up saying something extraordinarily hurtful and callous and i know a lot of you aren't cruel, you're just scared. just say "im scared and i'm going to vote for kamala" and let it go.

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Hello kind souls 👋❤️

❤️‍🩹🛑🛑❤️‍🩹🚨

My name is Safaa. I am a Palestinian from Gaza. I am 21 years old. I study at the university💚.

“I am engaged, and my wedding date was at the end of December 2023. I was preparing for it as any girl dreams of a wonderful wedding and starting a new life. But unfortunately I lost all that in the blink of an eye. But my dream remained to have a wedding after survival and to travel with my family And my fiance .”

I am raising money on behalf of my family of ten (my father, mother, brothers, sister and her children 🥺Adem👶, Nasser🧒 and Baraa👧). We are trapped in Gaza and living in tents with minimal access to water, food or basic necessities. My family and I are at risk of death at any moment, if not from bombs, then from hunger, dehydration or disease.

It is embarrassing that the only glimmer of hope is that I am appealing to you to fund us. To travel and cross to safety. ❤️🍉❤️🍉❤️

I would never have imagined myself raising money from the masses for such a solution. 🙏🙏

But I will never forgive myself for not doing everything possible or imaginable to save their lives and get them to safety.❤️‍🩹

I will not abandon any of them, and I still hope you will donate and share my fundraising campaign to raise enough money to fund their evacuation.

I appreciate your generosity.❤️❤️

my family🩵💜

Fear began to overtake me... I never imagined that I would forget any of the memories of my beautiful home. I had a house in the northern Gaza Strip, in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood... a beautiful house with two floors. I return to it after every ordeal to find myself in the arms of my family, my home that had memories in every corner of it... My family's shelter has become a pile of rubble.💔💔❤️‍🩹🍉❤️🍉❤️🍉❤️🎗

Before After

A side of our meaning 💔💔

Now, my family and I are facing a difficult choice. We need to evacuate for the safety of our lives, but the cost is beyond our means. Each person requires , and without your support, our options are painfully limited.

I humbly ask for your compassion and generosity. Every donation, no matter how small, brings us closer to safety and a chance to rebuild our shattered dreams.

Please, if you can, consider donating through the link . Your kindness could make all the difference.

Thank you for standing with us in this 🥺🌹🌷

Vetted by @el-shab-hussein 🍉

Vetted link

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Help my family

November is the month with the most difficult memories in my family's life. On the fourth day of this month, we lost my older brother, Mohammed, during the Israeli occupation's invasion of the city of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. My brother Mohammed was shot in the chest by a Zionist sniper. He continued to bleed for hours until he passed away in the first minutes of the ambulance arriving، What is striking is that 18 years have passed since the loss of my brother, and the occupation is repeating the same approach, invading and destroying the same city of Beit Hanoun. We are suffering, we are suffering from a criminal occupation that is unparalleled throughout the ages.

.🔴🔴 Help my family from here 👈👈

I am still calling on you from the Tumblr platform that supports the Palestinian cause to save what is left of my family So that we can provide them with the necessities of life or get them to safety if possible

vetted 👈👈

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This fundraiser was recommended to me by skatehani!

Ahmed here is a photojournalist and videographer documenting the life of Palestinians in Ghazzah under accelerated genocide. He documents these things publicly on his Instagram account.

This fundraiser is legit, don't hesitate to help!

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Help Asmaa and her family!

Asmaa @asmaamajed2 is a 19-year-old computer engineering student. She is full of passion and driven to pursue her dream of making a difference through technology. Please help evacuate Asmaa and her family to safety and help Asmaa continue her education and passion!

The people of Gaza have had to endure the horrific conditions of constant bombing, hunger and forced displacement caused by Israel’s genocidal war for almost a year. Asmaa and her family lost their home and their source of income. They have been forcibly displaced and have been living in a tent enduring extremely difficult conditions. Now due to heavy rain their tent and their property has been damaged. Winter is approaching and they urgently need to replace the damaged tent. 

Asmaa has been fundraising since June and has only been able to reach only 20% of her goal despite having fundraised for months.

Their campaign is currently at 9 849/50 000$ of the goal. Please share and donate to help Asmaa and her family survive!

Asmaa’s campaign has been shared by @/90-ghost here. 

tagging for reach:

@schoolhater @magnus-rhymes-with-swagness @determinate-negation @a-shade-of-blue @neptunerings @transmutationisms @buttercuparry

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🚨There's zionists trying to report my fundraiser claiming I'm a scam.‼️

But everyone knows I'm in Gaza and I help my fellow Gazans 😂.

Zionists will find any opportunity to lie about a Palestinian especially a Gazan, to try and make us suffer, in this case in an attempt to cut off my and my family's lifeline. We're still here and we're not going anywhere.

Please consider supporting my fundraiser

or send money straight to my Paypal so lying zionists like these can't interfere with the transfer (paypal).

Thank you to all who have been supporting me and helping care for my family in this horrible atrocity.

@el-shab-hussein @nabulsi @irhabiya @sar-soor @stuckinapril @brutaliakhoa @appsa

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🚨 Stop, please don't skip✋

🇵🇸Help me family🙏😭

Hello there!

I'm a little girl with 11 years old with two more little brothers 9 years old and 5 years old and our parents which my father works painter but no job for him because he got injured at the begin of the war beside there's no work for painters during the war anyway, the financial situation of my family have reached to minus which coused problems enough to make parents about to be apart and get divorce and i know this will be like ending us, specially the poor families lives on the edges of the side zones which no water almost and no any services or support, or even medical care, things more crazy than the words actually...

https://gofund.me/3b401079

Someone told me about this site and told me it can help same time i was shy but once the divorce is up between my parents i just rushed to do this, and i hope it's a right discission, thanks for your supporting, in case we got killed during the war i inform who helps me in this to post it here and freeze the account and spread what is left on the poor people like us, maybe they get the chance to have better life or just leave Palestine to better place.

Thanks everyone

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i've picked up on the fact that nobody reads these anymore so i'll try and keep it short. for more info, you can read more about her situation here & here.

my friend reema @reemagaza has been campaigning since march, that's almost 9 months. only now is she losing hope and feeling like she can't ask for our help anymore. her sister has just received surgery and is in great pain, her family has lost everything due to the genocide. these remaining funds are needed to support them.

✅ verified by sar-soor and operation olive branch ✅

$21,920CAD of $25k

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In order to incentivize people to donate, I am giving away a set of three 11x17" risograph prints for free to one lucky winner! I can ship internationally to any country that the USPS allows.

💸 Donate $10 USD or more to enter! Each $10 donation to one of the fundraisers (linked below) counts as one entry. Donating multiples of 10 or to different gofundmes counts as extra entries.

💌 You must forward the email receipt of your donation to my email, mushroomsthatarechocolate@gmail.com, in order for your entry to be valid.

📆 Winners will be drawn on Wednesday, December 11th, 2024. I will reach out via email to confirm shipping information. Please be sure to donate and share.

List of fundraisers that have reached out to me:

(information current as of 10/30/2024)

@supportmyfamily1 (vetted) || £2,887 out of £30K goal

@ahmedomar3 (vetted) || €7,066 out of €50K goal

@ayaalhabil (vetted) || €245 out of €15K goal

@aliandhadeel-family7 (vetted) || €429 out of €70K goal

@aya2mohammed (vetted) || €36,648 out of €50K goal

@hillesmahmoud (vetted) || €25,928 out of €37K goal

@albardawillhazem95 (vetted) || £7,025 out of £20K goal

@ma7moudgaza2 (vetted) || $13,832 USD out of $25K goal

@mohammedmadi20 (vetted) || €622 out of €30K goal

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if anyone is trying to donate to help in Gaza through orgs, these ones were just banned by the Israeli government with no reason given and can no longer operate in Gaza (at least for now).

these are the orgs: Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association, Glia Project, Palestinian American Bridge, PalMed, Baitulmaal, FAJR, Palestinian American Medical Association, Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund

from what i’ve been told by people who have been working in/coordinating aid in Gaza, Palestinian Red Crescent Society, World Central Kitchen, and Anera are unaffected by this order, but everyone has been limited in what they can bring in. while the middle two aren’t medical orgs, they have been bringing in some medicine. PRCS is a red cross affiliate providing medical care.

(not trying to sway anyone’s donations but wanted to put this out there since PCRF has been the org i’ve recommended several people donate to previously.)

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Donate to Mohammed Ayesh, who has helped hundreds of Gazan families in such a short time.

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URGENT: help a young teenager in gaza continue his education and life

hello everyone, i'm going to make this post short so more people will hopefully read through and reblog.

ibrahim @ibrahim-family is a 15 year old boy in gaza. despite having lost so much, he still has hope that he can leave gaza to continue his education and life.

his campaign was previously vetted by gazavetters (#25). they are currently not vetting donations anymore, but an archive is available via @/soft-sunbird here.

please help ibrahim by reblogging this post and donating what you can. nobody deserves to be in such a position, especially a young teenager who has so much life left to live. the least you can do is take a minute of your time to contribute. thank you all so much.

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The first payment has been sent!

Thanks to all of your donations, we were able to raise 1079 dollars for @supportmohammedmsiam's dental treatment, which I sent to him this morning! Once it arrives I will have more updates, but I'm so grateful to all of you for your donations Now that Mohammed and his little brother are going to be treated, they will need another $1000 to treat his sister and older brother as well. This fund is Mohammed's only source of income right now, so it's especially important to keep the donations comming! 25/$1000 towards the next goal!

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In light of the current confusion, I don't want people to lose sight of what's important, and what is important is the future of the real humans in Gaza who are affected by the war and still need your support.

The Anqar family still needs your support. And they are so close to their fundraising goal now. They have raised €70,798 out of their goal €75,000, meaning they have less than €5,000 left to get to their goal!!