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I would like to urgently appeal for my friend Ayah! I have been in contact with her and gotten to know her throughout this year and she is tireless in advocating for her family and her children and protecting them.

Very recently Ayah has had to remake their fundraiser, which they've been relying on to afford food and supplies to survive this harsh year of genocide. Going into the winter, Ayah needs your help!~

Having to remake the fundraiser means that now they are very low on funds. They are receiving hardly any donations on their fundraiser, and their lives are depending on it.

Not only this, but during this year, Ayah and her family have not been able to save any money to leave through the border once it opens. They have had to use every cent on food and supplies.

It's so important to reblog and donate what you can to support this family. If even half of my followers were able to donate just a small amount to this fundraiser, we could reach €2000! Please consider donating if you can, and if you cannot, please make sure this reaches someone who can donate to this family!

Help me advocate for Ayah's family. Please follow @ayo0osh and engage with her posts, talk about her family on your own blogs. Every bit can help.

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Please listen carefully Please listen carefully I need you to read this..

My name is Ahmad Al-Ashi, a 24-year-old young man from Gaza.

For years, I have been the sole provider for my family. I live with my mother, who is 68 years old and suffers from chronic illnesses that weigh heavily on both of us. Her condition requires daily care and constant medication, but we can barely afford enough food to survive, let alone the expensive medicines she desperately needs.

My own health is not much better. I suffer from liver disease, and my liver enzyme levels are extremely high, leaving me in constant pain every single day. This illness prevents me from working consistently, and sometimes I even struggle to help my mother with the simplest tasks.

As for our living conditions, we reside in a tent—if it can even be called that. It provides no protection from the scorching heat of summer or the freezing cold of winter. The severe inflation in Gaza has made even basic necessities unaffordable. Food has become a luxury, and medicine feels like an unattainable dream. Every day, we face a battle between hunger and illness, between hope and despair.

Despite all of this, I continue to fight, standing as best I can for my mother and my family, searching for any glimmer of hope that can help us overcome this harsh ordeal. Our story is not just one of pain; it is a plea to anyone who can offer help, to anyone with a compassionate heart who can be the reason we survive this nightmare.

We are in desperate need of someone to extend a helping hand because our lives are on the brink of collapse.

vetted by : @90-ghost @bilal-salah0 This campaign #152 on Butterfly Effect Project vetted list! https://chuffed.org/project/help-ahmed-alashi

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this is my friend Mai. she was the main caretaker in her family. in the last weeks the situation has worsened.

her brother had already had 80 stitches in his arm, which demands ongoing care and essential medications for recovery

she has been diagnosed with hepatitis due to the contaminated food and water in gaza

her mother's heart issues have worsened: she already had a heart device implanted, but her condition is degradings and the medicine that she now needs to survive costs 350$ FOR A WEEK ALONE

her dad who has managed to get to egypt is suddenly fell ill, and he is now needing a catheterization procedure to have a stent placed. the cost of the procedure ranges from $1300 to $1500

these are things that her family simply cannot afford! imagine the horror you must feel in such a situation! the survival of her family depends on YOUR DONATIONS!!!!!!!!!

i cannot imagine the pain that she must feel. what is happening is a genocide and simply horrifying. this is your chance to help.

donate what you're able to or 5$ AT LEAST to her gofundme or her paypal.

campaing vetted by : @90-ghost @bilal-salah0 @gaza-evacuation-funds The ButterflyEffect Project number : 1197

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EXTREME EMERGENCY! Medical fees preventing emergency hysterectomy!!!

Maha @mahafamily1 needs to have an emergency hysterectomy! She recently had a miscarriage, and if she does not have a hysterectomy NOW, she will die!!

The doctor told her EVERY MINUTE OF DELAY DECREASES HER CHANCE OF SURVIVAL!!! Minute-by-minute, we are losing Maha!!!

Because her recent emergency operation had to be paid on credit, and is not yet paid, Maha now needs to pay the full cost of the hysterectomy up-front before the procedure will be done!!! She urgently URGENTLY requires $2000 USD in order to survive!!!

MAHA IS DYING AS I TYPE THIS!!! I am in tears begging you all, do not let medical bureaucracy take such a beautiful soul!!!!

NEED TO RAISE: €1,922 EUR ($2000 USD)!!!

PROGRESS: €0/€1922

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I would like to urgently appeal for my friend Ayah! I have been in contact with her and gotten to know her throughout this year and she is tireless in advocating for her family and her children and protecting them.

Very recently Ayah has had to remake their fundraiser, which they've been relying on to afford food and supplies to survive this harsh year of genocide. Going into the winter, Ayah needs your help!~

Having to remake the fundraiser means that now they are very low on funds. They are receiving hardly any donations on their fundraiser, and their lives are depending on it.

Not only this, but during this year, Ayah and her family have not been able to save any money to leave through the border once it opens. They have had to use every cent on food and supplies.

It's so important to reblog and donate what you can to support this family. If even half of my followers were able to donate just a small amount to this fundraiser, we could reach €2000! Please consider donating if you can, and if you cannot, please make sure this reaches someone who can donate to this family!

Help me advocate for Ayah's family. Please follow @ayo0osh and engage with her posts, talk about her family on your own blogs. Every bit can help.

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🛑🛑Stop Stop 🛑🛑

Please help me for my children don't abandon us don't ignore me ���💔💔🥺🥺🥺🥺😞

My child has been exposed to a type of skin disease due to malnutrition and eating spoiled canned food, so I ask you with all my heart to help me and donate to me for the sake of my child’s health and to buy medicines and healthy foods for him. Please help me, please. 🥺🥺🙏🙏💔💔

Your donation, however small, helps my child, so do not interrupt us and watch us, we really need you.😢😢💔🙏

😞💔💔🙏🙏

Your donation, even if it is small, makes a difference in restoring health.

Please be compassionate and kind and help me. I want to buy medicine for my child. Does his treatment cover the amount or part of it? 💔😭😭

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HELLO EVERYONE I NEED YOUR ATTENTION

My Ko-fi account is back i set a new Goal. For helping my family and my brother & my relatives especially who still in Gaza Strip without any source of income.

There’s NEWS right now saying there’s might the RAFAH CROSSING maybe it will be rebuilt again with new management So i need your help to get my BROTHER out to us especially his wife will give birth i think this month. I can’t imagine how my brother feeling being away from his first child.

And I think in my opinion this time getting out from gaza will be harder and more expensive.

I know i have been asking a lot but in last year all i have is you. I will be always grateful for you and what you did and doing for me and for my family.

SUPPORT US MEANS CHANGE LIFES.

HERE THE LINKS TO DONATE 👇🏼

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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 can't lie, I find it very odd that posts cautioning people against donating to individual* campaigns and promoting the idea of supporting mutual aid efforts and community kitchens in Gaza can rack up 10k+ notes--while a post promoting a community kitchen (that I can personally vouch for) struggles to get 1k notes, and has barely pulled in a couple hundred dollars over the past week.

I actively try to avoid using guilting tactics in fundraising, but this is weird to me. It's like people are using these posts as an excuse not to do things they already didn't want to do anyway, rather than actually taking their recommendations on board...

*In my experience, these campaigns often support large extended families + their neighbours

MAQMAP is a community kitchen aiming to support families in the Mawasi Al-Qarara area.

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URGENT: HELP SAVE THE LIFE OF MY CHILD

I'm Amal, a mother of three children, living under the weight of the genocide taking place in Gaza. 🍉

The Israeli occupation forces launched drone strikes on my husband, Fayez, and my son, Mohammad.

my husband was hit in the head, while my son Mohammad was wounded in his legs.

Although my husband's condition has stabilized, my son is still suffering immensely and urgently needs medical treatment outside Gaza.

So I started a fundraising campaign to save my son before he dies.

Ddonate Via Paypal 👇

I lost most of my family. I'm afraid to lose my son too 🥺 .

I need your help please donate and share, evry contribution, no matter how small, brings us hope in these dark times.

Mohammed deserves to live a happy and healthy life, just like every other child on this earth.

So I humbly ask you to donate even a little or at least reblog this appeal.

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From Haaretz anonymous interviews with IDF soldiers, published December 23, 2024.

There are absolutely no words to address the inhumanity of this. Fuck this genocidal entity, and I truly believe we will see its demise within our lifetime because this kind of cruelty is not sustainable.

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Ahmed Hammad needs to raise at least $100 today

Ahmed’s family is one of the campaigns I try to trickle in as much donations as I can, I was able to donate $50 of his $150 daily goal, but he needs more help.

I would much appreciate if someone could match me, if two people matched my $50 donation he would reach his goal, if four people donated $25 he would make it. If you have to choose one family to donate to today, choose them. @asd199821

Here’s his GFM, but he also accepts direct donations through paypal (dm privately for the email)

Please consider

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Do not really know what to say. A year ago we were making posts about how Gaza was being bombed through Christmas- how the oldest Christian community was being bombed- how the birth place of Jesus was being destroyed and his people murdered. A year later, it is going to be Christmas again soon, and the bombings have not stopped. But the news, and the attention seems to have died down considerably. It feels terrible and scary.

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ok last thing. but what people fundamentally need to get through their heads is the significance of gaza fundraisers not being the same as like mutual aid when you're helping someone get groceries, because it is a genocide. there is insane deliberate scarcity and prices are unmanageable, because there is nowhere nearly enough for everyone, so only people who can pay can eat. and what positioning individual fundraisers as the only course of action does is quite simply give a tiny percentage of random people whose fundraisers take off the ability to pay those prices while thousands of others can't. and every one of those thousands of people without a fundraiser is suffering through the same inconceivably horrific reality. it is giving a few completely desperate people out of hundreds of thousands a slightly more favorable position in a horrific war economy of imposed scarcity. and what grassroots community kitchens do is try to mitigate in some small way that inconceivable hierarchy of who can pay and who can't, by stretching ingredients as far as they can last to cook meals at large scale and give them out at no cost. and obviously people are still going to send money to their friends and families because this is hell what else are we supposed to do but please just think about that before promoting endless individual fundraisers as somehow the most ethical way to help

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stagnant campaigns!

all of these are vetted! and a lot of them are very low on funds!

@yousefjehad3 donation post fundraiser 10151 out of 25000 raised!

@m7meds donation post fundraiser 1650 out of 50000 raised!

@khalid-sisters donation post fundraiser 6802 out of 15000 raised!

@islamgazaaccount3 donation post fundraiser 3650 out of 30000 raised!

@asala-almashni donation post fundraiser 6172 out of 30000 raised!

@mhammedmosa donation post fundraiser 6806 out of 20000 raised!

@sarah-abo-hwidi donation post fundraiser 1209 out of 50000 raised!

@mona-7777 donation post fundraiser 468 out of 80000 raised!

@alaasyam donation post fundraiser 870 out of 30000 raised!

@m-albalawi donation post fundraiser 46577 out of 85000 raised!

@ahmedhells-blog donation post fundraiser 22651 out of 80000 raised!

@aboodalqedra13 donation post fundraiser 8252 out of 25000 raised!

@smarsajjjja donation post fundraiser 2172 out of 40000 raised! very low on funds!

@ayaalsofi donation post fundraiser 775 out of 10000 raised!

@alaasyam donation post fundraiser 870 out of 30000 raised!

@muhannad-ayyad donation post fundraiser 500 out of 55000 raised!

@save-esraa-familay donation post fundraiser 4072 out of 20000 raised!

@hamza-gaza donation post fundraiser 5622 out of 100000 raised!

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🚨URGENT DISTRESS CALL

I am a mother of 5 children from Gaza. I lost my husband, my home, and everything I own in the war. I am writing to you with full pain and hope that you will heed my call and save my family.📍🍉🍉💔😭😭

This is my family of 6 people and we now live in a tent💔💔🍉

This is our house that was destroyed by the occupation😭😭😭💔💔🍉

This is our source of livelihood, but the occupation burned and destroyed it and we became without income😭😭💔🍉📍

This tent we live in is not fit for human habitation.🍉🍉📍💔💔😭

“Help me survive and go home 🏠💔”

My campaign is protected on gofundme for a year 🍉🍉📍📍🚨

The situation is very difficult, and with my family who needs support to survive in these harsh conditions. Every donation, no matter how small, may be the difference that helps us provide food and shelter💔💔😭😭🍉📍

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