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29 Aug 24

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verified ways to donate to gaza directly

Donate to a Palestinian family directly:

gazafunds.com - Donate directly to a Palestinian family in urgent need of evacuation, medical treatment, daily necessities or more. Site run by Palestinians, all GFMs verified (full list here). Spotlights 1 stagnant GFM at a time. (*If you can't decide who/where to donate, just go to gazafunds.com & donate to the 1 GFM they show you!)

masterlist of 200+ verified Palestinian families' GFMs: Operation Olive Branch

Help provide tents:

The Sameer Project: Currently providing tents & transport for families in Rafah who urgently need to evacuate to Deir Al Balah. Has a team on the ground in Gaza who have supplied tents to 1% of the displaced population in Rafah. Run by Palestinians. (paypal) (gfm)

@helpgazachildren: Currently helping Palestinians in a refugee camp in Rafah flee the Rafah invasion to Khan Younis. Funds go directly to Hussam, a Palestinian in Rafah who hosts a refugee camp. Funds will cover the cost of tents & transport fuel. Managed by a Palestinian @.fairuzfan. (gfm)

Food:

Care for Gaza: Palestinian charity on the ground in Gaza distributing food, cash, medicine & other essentials to displaced families. Proof of their work found on their Twitter. (paypal) (gfm)

We Feed Gaza: Team of Palestinian volunteers in the heart of Gaza distributing food & water to 344+ families. More details & proof in their gfm. Vetted & promoted by LetsTalkPalestine on IG. (gfm)

Direct Aid for Gaza: A Palestinian activist on the ground in Gaza distributing food, cash & other essential supplies to displaced families. Proof of their work found on their twitter. (paypal) (gfm)

Water (*urgent and crucial!)

Gaza Municipality: The official Municipality of Gaza is doing vital, life-saving work to rebuild the water pipes in Gaza City to restore access to clean water & waste management services for the people of Gaza.

eSIMs (highly needed):

guide to buy & send esims to gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza: donate any amount to this team of volunteers who pool funds to buy & maintain gaza esims regularly (see their financial accountability document).

Medical Aid:

Gaza Wound Care (urgent): Palestinian doctors in central Gaza treating injured/sick children & mothers in neglected displacement camps far from hospitals. Facing a severe shortage of medicines, equipment, and medical supplies. Currently raising funds to support their efforts to battle infectious diseases in refugee camps. (gfm) (paypal) (gogetfunding)

international charities: Palestine Red Crescent Society, Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Medical Aid for Palestinians

How to help if you can't donate:

Share & amplify Palestinian fundraisers in your irl & online circles

Organize or help to run an online/irl event to raise funds for Palestine

Boycott

Get involved with a protest/strike/direct action in your area

Contact your reps

Educate yourself & others both irl & online

Daily clicks on Arab.org

(you can even adopt 1 fundraiser campaign to regularly boost it & make materials promoting it online, or print posters/flyers about Palestinian fundraisers to encourage others to donate. (poster/graphic about gazafunds.com: here, flyers about esims: here, flyers about gazafamilyfunds: here)

(longer masterpost of all ways you can help)

updated 3/6/2024 with Gaza Wound Care & We Feed Gaza. I wanted to focus on Palestinian-run grassroots initiatives that will actually reach Gazans on the ground, so all of these except eSIMs, PCRF, MAP are by Palestinians. i have verified them but please feel free to do your own vets for your peace of mind.

Remember small donations really do add up. Any amount counts, even $1!

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Waiting Romo orbs

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pinniped-form house spirit

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Essam Marouf (Egyptian, 1958) - Untitled (2010)

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Hello, I am Ahmed. The war destroyed my life. Can you help me? I need 3 things from you: Share, repost, and donate if you are able to donate. Thank you for listening to me

My post link 👇💕

https://www.tumblr.com/ahmed4palestine/756439898525974528/urgent

My GFM link 👇🔗

https://gofund.me/1d8bb3df

PLEASE REBLOG, SHARE AND DONATE!!

This campaign is vetted! (it is also in line 488 of this spreadsheet)

SAVE PALESTINE🇵🇸🕊

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a lot of people have reached out to me about their gofundmes so I thought I'd make a post to promote them. all of these have been vetted, so if you're looking for somebody to donate to, consider one of these!

@88mohammed - gofundme (€2,036 raised of €100,000 goal)

@anqar - gofundme (€13,675 raised of €20,000 goal)

@salahaldinahhorsblog - gofundme (€3,864 raised of €40,000 goal)

@hayanahed - gofundme (€60,935 raised of €100,000 goal)

@mayadayyad81 - gofundme ($29,232 USD raised of $35,000 goal)

@musababd - gofundme (£863 raised of £8,000 goal)

@ahmed-mohammed1 - gofundme (€1,901 raised of €30,000 goal)

@salem-baker - gofundme (€1,724 raised of €38,000 goal)

@mohamed-mikki - gofundme ($327raised of $20,000)

@emanfamily - gofundme (€3,186 raised of €38,000 goal)

@tameraldeeb - gofundme (€22,950 raised of €40,000 target)

@mohammedaldeeb - gofundme (€32,054 raised of €55,000 target)

@amlanqar - gofundme (€4,416 raised of €50,000 goal)

@ashraf-family2 - gofundme (€14,660 raised of €20,000 goal)

@mohammedalanqer - gofundme (€48,988 raised of €58,000 target)

@amira-world - gofundme (€17,836 raised of €20,000 target)

@ahmedalnabeeh11 - gofundme (€17,133 raised of €30,000 target)

@neverhate2024 - gofundme ($39,541 AUD raised of $70,000 target)

@emansalem - gofundme (€3,186 raised of €38,000 target)

@bilal-salah0 - gofundme (€70,105 raised of €70,000 goal)

@m0hammed1 - gofundme (€7,711 raised of €25,000 goal)

@ahmedabuyamin - gofundme (€43,140 raised of €49,000 goal)

@bilalassadabedrabou - gofundme (€4,593 raised of €80,000 goal)

@musababed - gofundme (€2,314 raised of €10,000 goal)

@mahmoud-ziad99 - gofundme ($13,156 USD raised of $30,000 goal)

@samerpal - gofundme (kr100,281 SEK raised of kr450,000 target)

@mahmoud-sharif - gofundme ($3,253 USD raised of $60,000 target)

@eyadeyadsblog - gofundme (CHF9,885 raised of CHF20,000 goal)

@zinaeleenyamin (deactivated but the gofundme is still up) - gofundme (€43,140 raised of €49,000 goal)

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I was just talking to Ahmed @90-ghost (alongside Av, who might be reading this, idk if they’d like to be part of this post tho). He has given me permission to write a post about our conversation.

This whole thing has gotten Ahmed to the point where he admits he’s started to hate tumblr after 12 years of being on here. He has over 3k messages in his inbox and can’t handle it right now, his brother and other family members are still in Gaza and he himself doesn’t have the money to help them out. I’ve noticed that donations have slowed among palestinian fundraisers in general, before this whole debacle that a few individuals on this site started. this is anecdotal, but I know Ahmed gets like $30-$50 per week in donations at this point, and that barely makes a dent in his and his family’s needs. Remember that people in Gaza need to pay massively inflated prices for what basic necessities are available right now. I think things are looking pretty dire to the people who would like to flee Gaza but don’t have the money. It already was dire that Egyptian government, working in lockstep with Israel and the west, charges $5k+ to Ghazzawis. Hala Agency, Ibrahim Al-Argani, and the other scumbags running the Egyptian state are all demons and they’ve lined their pockets throughout this genocide. But I digress—it was dire already and now the enthusiastic aid that helped people like Ahmed seems to have run dry.

All that is to say: Ahmed can’t continue to verify peoples’ documents or promote their fundraisers at this stage. He’s privately talked to hundreds of Ghazzawis and looked at their IDs, and he was the only person doing it for a while (a very small handful of other Palestinian users on here were doing it, but they’ve also gotten overwhelmed and stopped). When he was in Gaza, Ahmed was displaced multiple times, left sleeping in tents or on the streets while in active physical danger, starving, forced to drink unsafe water, and often sick. It’s not an exaggeration to say that his body and mind have been pushed to the limit. When he told me he’s depressed all day after doing this work while attracting a ton of negativity, I told him he’s allowed to stop for the sake of his own health, because frankly he needs to focus on his physical recovery. There’s nothing selfish about that, it’s not sustainable for him to be doing this, particularly not when he’s still under the immense stress of his brother and other relatives remaining in Gaza and relying on him for help.

Since I know people will ask: I currently don’t know of anyone on tumblr who still vets fundraisers. Everyone I know of who did has had to stop. I don’t know about the inner workings of Operation Olive Branch, but they seem to be one of a few collectives with enough members to distribute this work. It IS work, and those of us who have tried to do it have done so with a low failure rate (el-shab-hussein and nabulsi’s spreadsheet had over 200 entries and they misidentified a scam as legitimate ONCE). I hope everyone will be more considerate towards the people at collectives like OOB.

This has always been a matter of personal discretion. The vetting process some users tried to implement on here is meant to help people who want to help and accept the risk of offering aid to strangers. If you don’t trust bloggers who’ve been proudly Palestinian on this site for years, that’s up to you—genuinely, it’s fair to think “I don’t know this person and I don’t know what standards they’re operating on.” In the future, anyone who has such concerns should consider asking good-faith questions to the people involved and to converse with them like adults before jumping to accusations, conspiratorial posts, etc.

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gazafunds seeks to uplift stagnant or otherwise struggling fundraisers for gazans seeking evacuation or simple necessities. i know many of the images crossing your feeds today are harrowing and impossible to fathom, but those in the line of fire need your help, not your complacency. gazafunds also urges those who are able to adopt a fundraiser to amplify to do so (you can contact them via their twitter.)

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The Shawlidarity pattern is live!! Proceeds from this patttern will go to Palestinian fundraisers vetted through gazafunds.org

In the works is a Progress Pride variant - if you purchase the pattern now, you will receive a copy as an update when it goes live

Sliding scale pricing - see the listing for coupon codes

If you are not able to use Ravelry for accessibility reasons, message me with proof of donation in any amount to a relevant fundraiser (gofundme, PCRF, operation olive branch, etc) and your email and I will send you a copy

Thank you to @otherfireangel for test knitting!!

LINK

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Friend Needs Money For Ulcer Medication

So yea if anyone wants to commission me (or just donate some money if you don’t want a drawing) my friend in a refugee camp needs to pay for his ulcer medicine and it’s about 40 bucks and I’ve already begged a lot of money from my roommate the past few weeks. I just started at a part time job but idk when I’ll get paid. I literally have 3 dollars in my bank account rn.

Cashapp: nervesN and Venmo: @nervesnebbin

(also have Ko-fi: Nervesnebula, but that one takes a few days to go through)

10/40$

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FUCK YOU

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says “I’m not getting my diploma at graduation Myself and 3 other seniors were notified that UChicago won’t confer our degrees at graduation this weekend. Despite finishing 4 rigorous and excruciating years of undergrad This comes off the heels of the university already having me and other students arrested & criminalized. The 4 of us have been targeted for “possibly” participating in campus-wide protests which a large majority of our student body has. We assumed we’d have criminal records before degrees. And now we might not even have that We’ve done the work. We deserve our degrees. Standing on the side of justice shouldn’t negate that. Sign, call, write to tell UChicago this is not okay. We need more support.” Go to his profile and click in the link in his bio for a quick way to contact the University.

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you cannot be progressive or left wing if you work in college admin right now

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If you want to purchase an esim for Palestine (select Middle East in the menu) through Nomad they are currently having discounts. You can use one of the following codes before checkout:

NOMADXSTUDENTS15 - 15% off of any plan (except day plans) over 5 USD

NOMADCNG - 5% off for all Middle East sims

PS: You can also try my referral code but I'm not sure if it still works:

TOBA57PV - 3 USD off your first purchase