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btw the palestinian children’s relief fund is currently running a fundraiser & is more than halfway to their goal of $10,000 !

here’s a link for anyone who is willing & able to donate, please share so it can reach more people, especially as the weather grows colder & these children are desperately lacking resources.

(at $5,314 / $10,000 as of December 1)

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My friend Nader is a 17 years old Palestinian boy who has been campaigning tirelessly for months now in order to evacuate his whole family from Gaza.

When I first started chatting with him, his campaign, which has a total goal of €50,000, was at a bit above €5,000 at the time, about a month ago.

Thanks primarily to this sweet boy's daily efforts and the help he's received from some Tumblr users, we've managed to get his fundraiser to 62% of its total goal!!!!

With that in mind, if everyone who's donated a relatively small amount would donate a similar amount again as I did, we could SO easily take him very near his goal!!

His campaign is verified. It's the 4th campaign in this spreadsheet.

If we reach this €50,000 goal, we'd be saving not just Nad, but several young children, his father Ahmed who's a cancer patient, and many others. Reminder too that an uncle of his was martyred very recently. Anything can happen at any moment, and he gets very disheartened whenever donations decrease. We need to get them all out of Gaza as soon as possible.

His little niece is suffering from malnutrition, and every day when Nad and I resume chatting again he tells me how exhausted he is. I'm very worried for him and his family, as there's people dying of starvation all around him and him and his family aren't doing well. His family has already been displaced NINE times!!

Let's give Nad a chance to follow his dreams of going to university. Let's give his very small siblings a chance to know of a life free of bombings and shootings. Let's give his father the opportunity to deal with his cancer with dignity and an actual fighting chance.

€30,784/€50,000

Tagging for reach:

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@enbnonsense @fuckyeahmarxismleninism @filmnoirsbian @fireandfennel @fufudeplatano @frankeneglected

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@sirmonster @sibelin @socalgal @sunsstorms @thatdiabolicalfeminist @undeadbutch @uptownthots

@vamprisms @vympr @vicholas @womenintheirwebs @nabulsi @el-shab-hussein

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everyone. We have exhausted our energy and become bodies without a soul. You are the only hope that will live life. Physical therapy. Support link in CV،🍉🇵🇸🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

A cat leaves all the neighboring houses and tents and comes to our small, humble tent to find safety, security, warmth and reassurance. To give birth to her children and share the shelter tent with us💔💔🍉🇵🇸

This is the condition of the cat. What about the human condition in this climate, in light of the coldness of a light tent, and the painful pain? We are not suffering from a tragic situation.🍉💔

@90-ghost

@appsa @buttercuparry

@baby-girl-aaron-dessner @schoolhater

@timogsilangan @tittyinfinity

@tamarrud @fancysmudges

@brokenbackmountain

@just-browsing1222 @mothblossoms

@aleciosun @serica-e @fluoresensitive

@katherineonline @khizuo

@lesbiandardevil @transmutationisms

@malcriada @palestinegenocide

@orbleglorb @sar-soor @akajustmerry

@annoyingloudmicrowavecultist

@feluka @marnota @sayruq

@tortiefrancis @flower-tea-fairies

@tsaricides @riding-with-the-wild-hunt

@visenyasdragon

@belleandsaintsebastian @ear-motif @kordeliiius @communistchilchuck

@brutaliakhoa @raelyn-dreams

@troythecatfish @theropoda

@4ft10tvlandfangirl

@queerstudiesnatural

@northgazaupdates2 @skatezophrenic

@awetistic-things-main @nabulsi

@dddemigirl @sabertoothwalrus @ahmedhells-blog

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Wait, beneath the sea floor?

OUGHGH??

OIUOHGHHVOIH!!!!!

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oh ok so these are the companies of ex-Za/um members:

Summer Eternal - a co-op, that includes Lenval Brown and Disco Elysium writers Argo Tuulik, Olga Moskvina, Dora Klindžić

Dark Math - Kaur Kender's brother Heiti Kender, Timo Albert ex-za/um motion graphic designer

Longdue - ?

Red Info - Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov

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Is it not completely insane and mind blowing that a few days ago just marked a solid year of this and we still get lukewarm headlines by mainstream media about how Israel is now ACCUSED of attacking Gaza hospitals (w no actual penalties for it)…. Think pieces by the New York Times that do their absolute best to tiptoe around the subject, if not outright fail to address it…….. and this is most insulting of all but I even saw more than one headline “honoring the memory” of the IOF soldiers who died in a recent attack…… and this all sounds made up but it’s not. It truly is all you see when you look up the news. Truly nothing has changed

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you know the drill, op disabled reblogs etc etc etc

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I want a chance to live a safe life without wars.​

Welcome,

My name is Nour, I am 35 years old, and I have 5 children

I write to you from the heart ❤❤️‍🩹 Suffering, destruction, hunger and displacement in Gaza. My life was beautiful and normal, full of hope, dreams and hard work until the war came and destroyed everything sweet in our lives 😭💔🇵🇸😭😭

I was displaced from northern Gaza to the south, thinking it was a safe place, but there is no safe place in Gaza. Everything around us was destroyed and turned into rubble. We live every day in a nightmare, without opportunities for education or work, and I suffer from poverty, loss, hunger and homelessness.🇵🇸❤️ ‍🩹💔

Imagine that you have everything and suddenly you wake up and you have nothing left😭.

This is exactly what happened to us💔❤️‍🩹. We went from having everything to having nothing. In the blink of an eye, we lost everything, our home, our dreams,😭🇵🇸😭

Our memories, our possessions and our businesses. We are starting from scratch and we need your help to rise to the top step by step from scratch.💔

All the positive words cannot express the extent of your generosity, especially in sharing my posts to inform other donors about the people of Gaza who are still suffering from the terrible conditions resulting from the unjust war on Gaza!❤️‍🩹💔

Please continue to support us by donating directly or sharing the link to let others know. Feel free to help people in difficult and miserable times until the dark days are over.🙏🙏🙏🙏

My compigen has been verified by @90-ghost

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@turtletoria @bulkhummus @smokebreaks-blog @doubleca5t @wuntrum

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@butchfeygela @danijaci @pinayelf @dogesterone @professorllayton

@bakwaas @eastgaysian @tf2yuri @

@romanceyourdemons

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@amygdalae @pointnclick @psygull @wolvierinez

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Hello my friends, I am Ayman from Gaza. I have 6 children and my young child has an eye injury and needs an urgent operation. I hope to get your help to save my child in obtaining treatment. We have been displaced 7 times, and now we live in a tent and life is very difficult. I hope everyone will help me. In treating my son and saving my children, we deserve to live a decent and safe life. Please do not stop posting about us and helping us.

Mohammed struggled with his eye sight before the war and since the war has started, he has been struggling even more, he needs surgery. The photo on the left shows Mohammed before the war started and then after. His vision got worse.

Hello my friend, please I need your help in donating or sharing my link. My son was injured in Gaza

Verified by

@el-shab-hussein

@nabulsi

@90-ghost

on Vetted Gaza Fundraiser List Number (244 )

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please concider donating to Musbah's family's fundraiser, even a few dollars will help!

his sister has been suffering from Asthma after a white phosphorus attack and it's been getting worse because of lack of food, water, and medication

if you can't donate concider sharing and commenting on some of his tiktok videos here :

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🆘🆘SToP Don't SKiP

A small donation can make a big difference 🙏🍉🇵🇸

Hello, I am Dina, I am 25 years old, I have two children, I gave birth to my child during the war, under bombing and genocide. I support my children and my children have become without a place or security. My daughter is 2 years old and my son is 3 months old, I gave birth to him under bombing and no medical care for me and my child.

My children need basic needs such as milk and food. I currently live in a tent after I lost my home due to the occupation and I cannot tell you what life is like there. It is like hell. Very hot in the summer and cold in the winter. In addition, there are insects and snakes. It is suffering. I want my children to live and be able to survive. Save them from the war and provide them with their needs of clothes and food. I have been displaced several times, and every time I was escaping death and bombing amidst the screams of my children so that I could get them out of Gaza to a safer place, so I ask you to extend a helping hand to save them from death and so that my heart does not break or something bad happens to them. Help me with support and participation, and I thank everyone who has provided support for my children.

@90-ghost

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I'd like to spotlight my friend Bilal @bilal-salah0's campaign today. Bilal has been living in Germany for the past 7 months, and is fundraising for his family back in Gaza.

His father's shoe business, the family's sole income source, was destroyed in the war, and the money Bilal is raising is now crucial for covering their daily expenses. Food and water are scarce and often contaminated, leading to the spread of skin diseases and viral infections, especially among very young children. Bilal is worried about his whole family, particularly his young nieces and nephews.

Because the Rafah crossing has been closed, the money Bilal has raised so far has been partially used to pay for basic necessities: gas, food, etc. These goods are being sold at exorbitant prices—when they are even available—and the family have had to raise their goal from €70,000 to €100,000.

Bilal is facing possible deportation from Germany on August 15, so this campaign is urgent. He needs to raise the funds before then to support his family's needs.

His campaign is #136 on @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi's spreadsheet. Please, donate and share.

€71,817 / €100,000

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anyway yes it's joever haha could we all spare a second to share my friend's gfm and throw $5 their way if possible so they don't have to worry about getting evicted please thank you

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Hello dear friends ! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🍉🍉❤❤

I am Ehab Ayyad a palestinian youngman from Gaza, seeking to find safety and peace for my family if twenty members. We have been passing through all forms of torture and pain for almost ten months because of the war on Gaza. Life is very miserable and tragic as we are now deprived of all means of living. Drink water, healthy food health care and medicine have become things of the past. We are dying dear friends. That is why I am asking you to help us break through this tough situation.

Life in hot tents are incredibly sad and miserable. We are now experiencing the worst circumstances we have ever had in our life. The war has stolen happiness and life from us.

Please don't leave us alone in such dire times. Your kind contribution either through donating whatever you can or sharing my posts will be highly appreciated and valued.

@appsa @buttercuparry @brutaliakhoa , @schoolhater , @aces-and-angels , @turian , @malcriada , @magnus-rhymes-with-swagness , @transmutationisms , @brokenbackmountain , @neptunerings @sar-soor @rhubarbspring @tsaricides @akajustmerry @nabulsi @timogsilangan @timetravellingkitty @khizuo @rainbowywitch @carusocarousel

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i feel obligated to talk about this bc i am egyptian and one of the central reasons people from gaza have been fundraising is because of egypt's border policy, which is no longer active since the rafah border was destroyed

i know nothing gets people more heated or self-righteous than the idea that they might be getting scammed, and i know the gofundmes here can be overwhelming in your inboxes and i know for many people in the west who want some kind of reliable process this can seem sketchy but palestinian bloggers on here (and palestinians across platforms including on gazafunds.com) don't want you to be scammed any more than you want to be scammed, and they have put in an extraordinary effort to verify information literally in the middle of a warzone

the truth is you all have no idea how difficult this entire process is from top to bottom, tech companies and fintech companies literally hate anything that passes through this area. i'm banned from uber and doordash because i used an egyptian credit card while travelling and it flagged their automated fraud systems and they never reinstated it lol like that's how arbitrary it is. and egypt is one of the better-connected countries in the area.

the entire reason people in gaza are relying on gofundmes is because the barriers to entry and exit are not accidental—they're deliberate! this is literally what being occupied and middle-eastern means. it means you don't have easy access to bank accounts, you don't have easy access to fundraising, you don't have easy access to your own records, and you are automatically mistrusted by the world at large of how thoroughly dehumanized your language and your people have been during a genocide where you are being bombed and living in a tent. this is also part of what it means to be a refugee from the global south or to be a refugee from the global north, where these processes are expedited (as they were for ukrainian refugees, for example) precisely because they are part of the structure of a war.

like just to explain to you guys how difficult it was for me (someone with access to networks across the world) to get money to a friend in gaza, because egypt's also going through an economic crisis and transferring usd here is close to impossible: to get 15k usd (enough to get 3 people out of gaza) to the office in egypt that registers people for evacuation, that family needed

a stable internet connection to communicate with us (they were only able to get in touch briefly every other day)

first-degree relatives in egypt to register for them

people from abroad who could raise the money for them (which they did; they were family friends who knew them)

an egyptian with a usd bank account and a foreigner coming to egypt who could carry usd in cash to divide it among themselves because there is no other way to receive that amount of money here at once

we managed to get the money to their relatives here, they managed to register them, and then the rafah border was destroyed. so now the are just waiting while being bombed and displaced from one area to another. and this is a family who had every connection needed. imagine how it is for people where only one of these links are dropped?

that's why the work the palestinian bloggers do here to support palestinians in gaza is necessary, because they fill in for people who don't have good language skills, who don't have friends abroad to fundraise or vouch for them, who don't have relatives in egypt who can receive money for them, etc

does this mean every fundraiser is 100% reliable? no. this is why the verification list exists! the things i would be wary of would be if someone sends you a false or phishing link, or if someone who is running the campaign from abroad decides to scam the palestinians they're raising it for and refuse to send the money, both of which i've witnessed personally

but the likelihood of someone faking being from gaza and getting onto the verified list is much smaller because the verification process is rigorous and like i said, palestinians themselves don't want to be promoting scams. but also most of these gofundmes protect your donation, meaning if someone disputes it you get your donation back. they are paranoid to the extent that they will sometimes refuse to pay out people in gaza even after the campaign goal is reached for no reason except that anything from the middle east is generally regarded with suspicion. i've seen paypal also refuse to do the same

as a matter of fact from a tech standpoint it's so, so much easier for someone located in the west to create a fake gofundme/phishing scam than for a palestinian to do so, but by that token it's more difficult for someone in the west to convincingly fake being from gaza. which is why the verification list and other initiatives (like again, gazafunds.com) are so important

i have tried to get gofundmes on gazafunds before and i can promise you their process is rigorous. you might not see a lot of the paperwork behind a specific campaign but i know they don't add campaigns unless they verify their IDs personally or through a network of trusted references. the bloggers on here are a volunteer network working independently, of their own effort, and they are doing their best in what is a genuinely horrible situation. the border is closed now but people in gaza have worked out alternate ways to receive money raised online (again, often via relatives transferring to each other outside gaza or other means) and aid hasn't been coming in for months and those regulating the aid were killed, which means extremely limited supplies and high inflation, so money raised and received now is literally survival money that goes wherever it can, and people are very desperate to raise as much as possible as things get more dire. there is no employment in gaza right now. people have been living off their savings for ten months.

is that simple to convey to some blogger on tumblr donating 5$ to a gofundme? is it simple to understand? no. and that's part of the structure of genocide. you aren't going to be able to venmo someone and get a receipt like you do if you're donating to an org, so volunteers are doing their best to fill in the gaps for that by making sure you know how your money is helping real human beings while relieving the pressure on these humans, in a genocide with limited internet, to constantly post about themselves.

the fact of the matter is that your risk of being scammed by a gofundme from the verified list or gazafunds dot com is extremely low, but the damage of of assuming (and even worse, claiming) these campaigns are a scam is extremely high

if you don't trust a campaign, don't donate to it. if you notice a red flag you feel like the bloggers verifying might have missed, alert them to it. if you notice someone impersonating one of the verified campaigns on here (also common) alert people to it. i often have difficulty identifying which blogs are legitimate because they are deleted and remade so frequently, so i just try to reblog posts from the verified list or promoted by palestinians bloggers as i donate to them.

don't cast doubt on the process if you don't understand it, and don't be cruel about a situation you should pray you never experience—and odds are, if you have a US passport and a US bank account, you never will.

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The reason people don’t want to work is that it’s just normal for them to be in bad work environments.

My issue with working at Walmart wasn’t the work itself I was doing. It was the circumstances around it. The concrete floor, lack of places to sit, having to put up with asshole customers, not getting time off for injuries, and bad pay.

If I had been given shock pads to stand on or a few chairs to rest on sometimes, if they paid me a livable amount of money and I was allowed to yell back at asshole customers, if they had given me any amount of training, I would happily work part time folding clothes all day and telling people where the swimsuit section is.

I’m a creative type. I’m a writer. I’m pretty smart, even. But if I could make a living folding shirts and listening to podcasts in one ear and helping people find the scented candles for 30 hours a week? I would. Leaves some mental space free for me to brainstorm. Lets me catch up on my reading with audiobooks.

But instead I was treated so badly by upper management and customers that I’m like legitimately a little frightened whenever I step into a Walmart now. And I only worked there for three months a few years ago.

I’m a good lower level worker. When I’m treated well. I like finishing tasks. I like being helpful. I like having some time to talk to coworkers and some time alone with my thoughts. I’m a frickin team player. And that’s how I was at my first job. I was treated well by my supervisor. I was trained. They were patient with me. I was so good at being low on the totem pole at that job because I was valued and felt like I was being listened to. I was able to sit still when there was nothing left to do which made it feel less bad when we were on a time crunch. I didn’t mind working hard at that job because it was fun even though I was doing all the low level stuff that the supervisors didn’t want do.

But at Walmart I was like that for all of two days. Then I figured out that nobody appreciated my work and if I worked in my normal people pleasing manner I’d kill myself because their standards were high and the rewards for meeting them were low.

So I slowed down. I started avoiding customers. I started taking a lot longer to get to my breaks and to come back from them. I became worse at my job because no matter how good I was at it there would be no reward, no appreciation, and I’d just be pushed further beyond my limits.

My only level of happiness from that job came from the people who were working with me. The old ladies and my department manager who made sure I wasn’t overextending myself. The one other young man working in the clothing department who always got sent with me to unload the heavy stuff and commiserated with me about the shoulder injuries, the hurting feet we were too young to have.

But none of that was enough to make me stay. We were constantly understaffed. I was constantly abused by customers and not able to do a thing about it. I was not paid much at all. So as soon as I had enough saved up for what I was trying to do and my last semester of college was about to start I handed in my two weeks.

I would have found a way to stay if I liked that job. If I liked that job I would’ve pushed myself to my mental limits to finish college and keep that job at the same time. Heck that job could’ve been a rest from college. A place to get away from it. But I hate that job so I got out as soon as I could.

I want to work. I want enough money to live sort of comfortably. I want to have some tasks to do to give my creativity a rest. I want to be a part of something. But the way that modern corporate run work environments are set up does not give me any of the things I actually want out of a job. And I think that’s the same for millions of people right now. A lot of people would happily spend their lives as a waitress or an Uber driver or a warehouse worker or a farmhand or any other “low skill” job you can possibly think of. But with the way the world works right now those jobs are absolutely miserable. It doesn’t have to be that way. I know because I’ve had a fulfilling part time minimum wage job that I looked forward to going to every week. A job where I was listened to and allowed to sit when I needed to. I miss that job. Especially now since I’ve realized that’s not the standard. It should be. People should look forward to going to work or at the very least not get mild ptsd whenever they set foot into a Walmart.

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please concider donating to Musbah's family's fundraiser, even a few dollars will help!

his sister has been suffering from Asthma after a white phosphorus attack and it's been getting worse because of lack of food, water, and medication

if you can't donate concider sharing and commenting on some of his tiktok videos here :