#Gaza photojournalists

[eretzyisrael]

In the video, a professional camera hovering over a Palestinian mob can be seen as its operator nonchalantly tries to focus on the terrified Bibas, who is tightly held on a motorbike in the middle of the chaotic scene.

34-year-old Bibas — whose wife Shiri and two young sons Ariel and Kfir have been abducted in a separate incident — is seen surrounded by armed men, bloodied, beaten, abused, and yelled at.

But the cameraman, as well as whoever films the video footage and others who hold up their phones, care only about capturing Bibas’s suffering, most likely in order to sell the footage to local and international news outlets.

[drsonnet]

Palestinian children in front of a mural of a kitten, ...

BEIT HANUN, GAZA, PALESTINE - 2015/02/27: Palestinian children in front of a mural of a kitten, said to have been painted by British street artist Banksy, on the remains of a house that was destroyed during the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas militants in the summer of 2014, in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun. (Photo by Ahmed Hjazy/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

Repost from @ajplus

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21 years ago, an Israeli sniper shot a British university student in the head as he tried to protect a group of children in Gaza. Two years later, the soldier who shot him said that he was acting under orders that allowed him to shoot unarmed civilians.

This is the story of Tom Hurndall, an aspiring young photojournalist who traveled the world and fought for justice during his short life.

Tom arrived in Gaza to volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement shortly after Israeli forces killed American activist Rachel Corrie in 2003. Rachel was a volunteer with the same organization.

[claraameliapond]

Parent of photojournalist and activist killed by Israel while trying to protect children from sniper fire "I think one of the lessons we learnt from that was that you can't place any reliance on Israeli accounts of events. And I think that's why I feel it's particularly relevant today, when we're hearing Israelis explain their actions in Gaza, so I think that was our concern, that it was happening again. Because it does seem that that's the Idf's approach: to routinely misrepresent what are ordinary civilian targets as, in some way tainted with a military aspect and therefore justify their attacking them" ... "What you must remember is that that barbarity, was incited by the ongoing barbarity of the Israeli policies towards Palestine."

Even supporters of Israel are aware and critical of its horrific apartheid and ethnic cleansing, genocidal approach to Palestine

[nando161mando]

A message from Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza

[planetkiimchi]

"Last Wednesday, the Israeli Supreme Court held a hearing in response to a petition brought forward by Israeli rights group, HaMoked, to reveal the location of a Palestinian X-Ray technician detained from Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza in February. It was the first court session of its kind since October 7."

if people in israel can speak up against this genocide, as someone who will not be subject the legal repercussions they are likely to face, how can you stay silent?

Concentration camp.

They built a concentration camp.

I don't think words can describe what this other than genocide.

[sheltiechicago]

Artwork by Alba Fabre

Unmute Gaza Calls for Communities Worldwide to Uplift the Voices of Palestinian Photojournalists

Artwork by Ernest Zacharevic

Artwork by Raquel Aparicio

Artwork by Faith XLVII

Artwork by Jaume Montserrat

Artwork by Eron

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

vetted fundraisers from today. please please keep sharing and donating as you're able. even the smallest contribution of time, effort, or resources is worthwhile!

july 1st:

Tahani Shorbajee, her husband, their three children, and six other family members ($15,423/$50,000) - @tahanishorbaje2, verified by @/el-shab-hussein

The Ayyad family of eight, including four children ($16,222/$35,000) - @aymanayyad82, verified by @/nabulsi

Muhammad Al-Azayza and family, including two children, one of whom has Down syndrome (kr7,590 SEK/kr200,000 SEK) - @hamouda-az, verified by @/sayruq

Basel Ayyad and his family of eight, including sick daughter whose condition is deteriorating without treatment (CHF1,828/CHF60,000) - @basel-1995, verified by @/sayruq

Shahed Muhammad and her family, including several children, one of whom needs treatment for hepatitis ($7,555/$50,000) - @shahednhall, verified by @/nabulsi

Ahmed Abu Shammala's family of eight (€9,694/€100,000) - @ahmed8311, verified by @/ibtisams

Ahmed Alanqer, his wife Dina, and their four young children, one a newborn (€22,711/€35,000) - @ahmednimer, @dinaalanqar, verified by @/nabulsi

Dina, her husband, and their three young children (one is a newborn and another needs urgent hepatitis treatment) ($587 CAD/$20,000 CAD) - @dina179, verified by @/ibtisams

Two families with 12 members in total, eight of them children (€2,953/€80,000) - @jrk85, verified by @/nabulsi

Mohammed Al Manasra, his wife, and their three young children (Mohammed needs treatment for chronic respiratory illness) (€7,533/€40,000) - @save-mohammad-family, verified by @/ibtisams

Reuniting four young siblings, one of whom has diabetes, with their parents ($3,405 CAD/$50,000 CAD) - @burningnightgiver, @ahmed79ss, verified by @/90-ghost

Photojournalist Muhammad Al-Thalateeni, his wife Safaa Al Khatib, and their two young children (€21,021/€35,000) - @mohammed-123, verified by @/sayruq

Ahmed Baalousha, his wife Islam, their three children (one a newborn), and three other family members (€14,314/€50,000) - @5735765, #124 on @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi's spreadsheet

The Al Zaeem family of seven, including four children and their severely injured grandfather ($18,263 CAD/$50,000 CAD) - @malkzaeem, @yosofzaeem, verified by @/nabulsi

Hadeel Adnan Abu Nasser and her family of 12 (she is responsible for everyone after the loss of her father and brother) (€1,314/€20,000) - @hadeelgaza, verified by @/90-ghost

Helping Siraj, his wife, and their three young children rebuild their beloved home ($1,924 CAD/$82,000 CAD) - @siraj2024, #219 on @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein's spreadsheet

Noor Ayman and her family of nine, including a young child who needs treatment for hepatitis (kr1,163 NOK/kr700,000 NOK) - @new25hour2, verified by @/90-ghost

Amal Ashour, her husband, and their one-year-old daughter (€747/€30,000) - @amalashuor, verified by @/ibtisams

Newlyweds Noor and Alaa (€37/€25,000) - @nouralaagaza, verified by @/90-ghost

Nael Khalid and his family - @islamgazaaccount2, verified by @/90-ghost

not yet vetted:

Moamen Majed, his four brothers, and their parents ($40/$30,000) - @moamenmajed-gaza

i know this is a long list, but a donation to even one of these campaigns can provide continued life and hope to so many people. if you pause on one post today, let it be here - these families urgently need our support.

[odinsblog]

“I first started noticing the journalists dying on Instagram. I'm a journalist, I'm Arab, and I've reported on war. A big part of my community is other Arab journalists who do the same thing.

And when someone dies, news travels fast. Recently, I pulled up the list that the Committee to Protect Journalists has been keeping and looked at it for the first time. There are 95 journalists and media workers on it as of today.

Almost everyone on it is Palestinian. Scrolling through, I started to get angry. These were the people carrying the burden of documenting this whole war.

Israel is not allowing foreign journalists into Gaza, except on rare occasions with military escorts. These people's names are being buried in a giant list that keeps growing. What I want to do is lift some of them off the list for a moment and give you a glimpse of who they were and the work they made.

I'll start with Sadi Mansour. Sadi was the director of Al-Quds News Network, and he posted a 22-second video on November 18. That was a report from the war, but it also gave me a picture into his marriage.

Sadi's wearing his press vest and looks exhausted. He's explaining that cell service and the Internet keep getting cut off, and it's often impossible to text or call anyone, including his wife. So they've resorted to using handwritten letters to communicate while he's out reporting, sending them back and forth with neighbors or colleagues.

He ends the video with a picture of one of these letters from his wife. In it, she writes,

‘Me and the kids stayed up waiting for you until the morning, and you didn't come home. We were really sad.

I kept telling the kids, Look, he's coming. But you didn't show up. May God forgive you.

Come home tomorrow and eat with us. Do you want me to make you kebab or maybe kapse? Bring your friends with you, it's okay.

And give Azeez the battery to charge. What do you think about me sending you handwritten letters with messenger pigeons from now on? Ha ha ha.

I'm just kidding. I want to curse at you, but we're living in a war. Too bad.

Okay, I love you. Bye.’

A few hours after he shared that letter, Sadie and his co-worker Hassouna Saleem were at Sadie's home, when they were killed by an Israeli air strike that hit his house.

His wife and kids, who weren't there, survived.

Gaza is tiny, and the journalist community is really close. Reading the list, you can see all the connections between people. Like with Brahim Lafi.

Brahim was a photojournalist, one of the first journalists to die. He was killed while reporting on October 7. He was just 21, still new to journalism.

On his Instagram, you can see that in his posts just a few years ago, he was still practicing his photography, taking pictures of coffee cups and flowers. Then he started doing beautiful portraits and action shots. You can really feel him starting to become a journalist.

Clicking around on Instagram, I found a tribute post about Brahim from his co-worker Rushdie Sarraj. In this photo, Brahim staring intently at the back of a camera, his face lit up by the light from the viewfinder. He looks so young.

The caption reads, My assistant is gone. Brahim is gone. Rushdie himself was a beloved journalist and filmmaker.

And I know that because he's also on the list. He was killed just two weeks after Brahim. I read the tribute post to him too.

I saw this over and over again. Journalists posting tributes, who were then killed themselves soon after. And a tribute goes up for them.

And then the pattern continues.

Thank you.

Something else I saw over and over on the list, journalists later in the war who had become aware that they could be making their last reports. They'd say it at the beginning of their videos. And those were the hardest to watch, especially when it was true.

One video like that was posted by Ayat Hadduro. Ayat was a freelance journalist and video blogger. Her videos before the war covered a wide range from what I can tell, interviews about women in politics.

She even appeared in a commercial for ketchup-flavored chips. She clearly liked being in front of the camera. Once the war started, Ayat's pivoted to covering bombings and food shortages.

On November 20, she posted a video report from her home. You can hear the airstrikes hitting very close to where she is. It's scary.

‘This is likely my last video. Today, the occupation forces dropped phosphorus bombs on Beit Lahya area and frightening sound bombs. They dropped letters from the sky, ordering everyone to evacuate.

Everyone ran into the streets in the craziest way. No one knows where to go.

But everyone else has evacuated. They don't know where they're going. The situation is so scary.

What's happening is so tough, and may God have mercy on us.’

She was killed later that day.

Targeting journalists, in case you didn't know, is a war crime. So far, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found that three of the journalists on the list were explicitly targeted by the IDF, the Israeli military. Investigations by the Washington Post and Reuters, Human Rights Watch and the United Nations have also raised serious questions in these three cases.

And the Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating 10 other killings. When we reached out to the IDF for comments, they said, quote, the IDF has never, and will never, deliberately target journalists. That's the answer they always give in these situations.

Meanwhile, dozens of seasoned reporters have fled Gaza. Journalists who worked for Al Jazeera, the BBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters, Agence France-Presse. So many media offices were demolished in Israeli airstrikes that the Committee to Protect Journalists stopped counting.

It's not just individual lives that have been destroyed. It's an entire infrastructure.

Thank you.

The name on the list that was hardest for me to look at was Issam Abdullah, because I'd crossed paths with him once. Issam was a Lebanese journalist, a video journalist for Reuters for many, many years. He had just won an award for coverage of Ukraine.

I'm Lebanese and still report there sometimes, and I'd worked with Issam a couple of summers ago. He helped me film a sort of random story in Beirut. I was interviewing this entrepreneur who had started a sperm freezing company after an accident where he spilled a tray of hot coffee on his private area, burning himself.

I know, ridiculous. It was a really silly shoot. Right after we said cut and started to rap, Issam started this whole bit about being in his late 30s, reconsidering his own sperm quality and everything he now realized he was doing to hurt it, and no one could stop laughing.

It was a really good day that felt good to remember and to remember him that way. Issam was killed by the IDF on October 13. His death was one of the three that the Committee to Protect Journalists has identified as a targeted killing.

He was fired upon by an Israeli tank while standing in an empty field on the Lebanon-Israel border with a small group of other journalists. Everyone was wearing press vests with cameras out. They were covering the Hezbollah part of this war.

A few other journalists were injured in the attack, which was captured on video. The IDF says they were responding to firing from Hezbollah, not targeting the journalists. But multiple investigations, including by Reuters, the United Nations, Amnesty International and the AFP, found no evidence of any firing from the location of the journalists before the IDF shot at them.

The journalists in the group and video footage confirmed that there was no military activity near them. I had only met Issam once, barely knew him, but it affected me so much when he died. I know that he understood the risks of his job, but somehow it still felt so random and unfair that he would be struck down like that, following the rules, wearing his press vest and helmet, and a pack of reporters on a sunny day in an open field.

I find myself thinking about him all the time. His last Instagram post was commemorating another journalist, this iconic reporter Shereen Abou Aql who had been killed by the IDF. When I first saw that post in October, I thought how ironic because a week later, Isam also was killed by the IDF.

But then, after spending time reading the list, I realized how common this had become. I still haven't finished going through the list and looking up the people on it. I keep finding things that stick with me, like the funny way this one radio host would cut off a caller who was rambling on for too long.

A tweet from reporter Al-Abdallah that quoted Sylvia Plath. It read, What ceremony of wars can patch the havoc? I'm going to keep going down the list, even though this story is over now.

Just for myself. My own way of bearing witness. Which is, in the end, all that these journalists were trying to do.”

—DANA BALLOUT, The 95. Dana sifts through a very long list—the list of journalists killed in the Israel-Hamas war, and comes back with five small fragments of the lives of the people on it. Dana is a Lebanese-American, Emmy-nominated documentary producer.

[sayruq]

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[eretzyisrael]

by Simon Plosker

HonestReporting’s expose on the Gaza photojournalists who infiltrated Israel on October 7 has caught the attention of the global media. As the story spread, however, so did the pushback, including attacks on HonestReporting’s integrity and various charges from some of the media outlets we’d asked questions of.

But first, some background. It’s no secret that there are some very bad actors within the Palestinian media community. In 2022, HonestReporting’s investigative work exposed several journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as being virulent and unapologetic antisemites. As a result of our reporting, several mainstream media outlets decided to cut ties with them, at least indicating that there are red lines when it comes to media ethics and morality.

Which was the point of our most recent story. We set out to shine a light on the conversation surrounding the media’s use of Palestinian stringers who, at best, operate in an environment controlled by Hamas, and at worst, are active accomplices.

And we did it not only in our role as a media monitoring organization. We approached it as Israelis. As Jews. As human beings. Because it’s impossible to separate anything from the horrific events of October 7, which appear to have faded so rapidly from the collective memory of the outside world and the media. For Israelis, October 7 is an open and gaping wound. Which is why, when we looked at photographs on an Associated Press carousel embedded in an online story last week, we were horrified and disgusted.

Horrified to see images of a burning Israeli tank on the Israeli side of a border that had been breached by Hamas terrorists and, as it turned out, many “fellow travelers” who accompanied them. Disgusted to see that some of these images, including at least one of the body of German-Israel Shani Louk lying in the back of a truck, were attributed to Gaza photojournalists who were paid by media outlets for their images — images that could only have been captured inside Israel as the massacre was taking place.

There were so many unanswered questions and we decided to put them into the public sphere.

The Media Fire Back

The reaction was swift. More damning evidence started to emerge, particularly concerning Hassan Eslaiah, one of the four Gaza photojournalists we’d flagged as being inside Israel. AP and CNN took steps to sever ties with him.

All of the media outlets involved — AP, CNN, Reuters and the New York Times — publicly stated they had no prior knowledge of what was to occur on the morning of October 7. HonestReporting had not, however, accused any of those outlets of such an incomprehensibly appalling crime.

The New York Times doubled down in its backing of freelancer Yousef Masoud. Further question marks remain over Masoud’s explanation that he’d been woken up at 5.30 am by rocket fire even though the firing only started an hour later. This is unsurprising, given their backing of a decision to rehire Gazan freelance filmmaker Soliman Hijjy despite HonestReporting previously revealing how he had praised Hitler on social media.

[drsonnet]

Palestinian citizens bury the bodies of Palestinians killed during the war in a mass grave on December 26, 2023 in #Rafah, #Gaza. Israel handed back 80 bodies of Palestinians during the ongoing war on Gaza (#genocide).

(by Ahmad Hasaballah/#Getty Images)

رفح، #غزة – 26 ديسمبر: مواطنون يدفنون جثث الفلسطين��ين الذين قتلوا في مقبرة جماعية في 26 ديسمبر 2023 في #رفح #غزة. أعادت إسرائيل 80 جثة لفلسطينيين خلال حرب الإبادة في غزة.

(تصوير: أحمد حسب الله)

[deputy-videogamer]

Hi guys I was recently been informed by @safaakhateeb about her situation in Gaza.

Her family had just evacted from Rafah and has headed to Al-Wusta. They have no drinking water, no food, and no medical aid in this area.

Her mother is extremely at risk as she is diabetic and they have no access to any hospitals or medical necessities.

She has two daughter, 7 year old Wateen and 4 year old Naya. And is married to Muhammad Al-Thalateeni who is a photojournalist who suffered a head injury at the beginning of the war.

Their goal is €20,000 they have less than €200

Please help them out as much as you can!

Here is the link to her gofundme so you can help her out

[a-shade-of-blue]

Masterlist of Vetted Fundraisers from the Palestinians who directly contacted me (10-14 October)

14 October

Ismail Awad (@ismailgazas-blog): Ismail is a photojournalist from Gaza. He and his family’s home has been destroyed, and he is fundraising to buy basic necessities like food and water.(https://chuffed.org/project/114849-ismails-urgent-plea) (#7 on this @/gaza-evacuation-funds list) ($74 Raised of $18,000) 

Malk Helles (@malkhelles): Malk lives with his father, his mother, and his sisters. He has lost his brother and his mother is ill and requires treatment. They wish to evacuate out of Gaza. (https://gofund.me/5de782ba) (#168 on @/gazavetters vetted list) (€70 raised of €40,000 goal)

Yasmin Aljoujou (@yasminfamily): Yasmin has 4 children: Qusay (16), Muhammad (14), Bahjat (12), Taha (7). They have been displaced 12 times. Yasmin’s sisters, brother and half of their children were martyred and her son is suffering from kidney disease due to the gunpowder. The children also contacted hepatitis.They are fundraising to buy basic necessities. (https://gofund.me/169ac4b8) (vetted by association through being shared by @/abuzoor (#10 on the Bees and Watermelons verified fundraiser list. Also #503 on the Butterfly Effect Project verified campaigns list. Also vetted by @/gazavetters and is #27 on their vetted list.)) (€80 raised of €20,000 goal)

13 October

Hashem Badr, Smahan & Katia (@katya-mother, @support-heshem, @support-katia-family): Hashem spent all the money he has to evacuate his wife Smahan and their 3 children: Katia (11yrs), Nabil (5yrs) and Linda (11months), out of Gaza. However, he does not have the funds to evacuate himself. They wish to evacuate Hashem and reunite with him. (https://gofund.me/25570474) (#102 on @/gazavetters vetted list) (£1,117 raised of £50,000 goal)

Mohammed Almashni (@barhoomsblog, @hemma2024, @mariam98sblogs): Mohammed and his wife Mariam have a 7-month-old baby who was born during this war. Mohammed used to be a universitiy lecturer, but they now struggle to even buy baby milk. They wish to evacuate out of Gaza. (https://gofund.me/00043700) (vetted by @/gazavetters and #137 on their vetted list, shared by 90-ghost) (€377 raised of €45 000 target)

Heba Alturk & Mohammad Elshikhdeeb (@hibaalturk): Heba and her husband Mohammad have a son Ziad who was born last November in this war. They are now displaced and living in a tent. They wish to evacuate out of Gaza.  (https://gofund.me/02013ad8) (#1090 on the Butterfly Effect Project vetted list)

Shahd (@girlhope-3): Shahd is 18 years old and is a university English literature student. She is with her elderly parents in Gaza. Her mother needs a knee replacement surgery.  She has been displaced and her uni bombed. They wish to evacuate out of Gaza. (https://gofund.me/9d2b517d) (#161 on @/gazavetters vetted list, shared by 90-ghost) (€36 raised of €10,000 goal)

Iyad Alanqer (@eyadalanqar):Iyad and his family’s house have been destroyed. He, his family, and several young nieces and nephews are now displaced. Iyad suffers from the effect of inhaling phosphorous, and now has respiratory issues. Their tent has recently been bombed, and several of his nephews and niences have been killled and injured. They wish to evacuate out of Gaza. (https://gofund.me/c1eb7f61) (#24 on @/gazavetters vetted list, vetted by nabulsi) (€2,288 raised of €40,000 goal)

Mohammad Al-Khaldi (@mohammedalkhaldi99,@mohammedsupport): Mohammad was supposed to marry his fiancee on 12 Oct, 2023. Their house has been bombed, his family house has been bombed, and he was injured in the head on the day he was supposed to get married. They are now displaced and living in a tent. (https://gofund.me/c106ac9c) (#57 on @/gazavetters vetted list, Family #197 on PaliLiberation vetted list)

12 October

Samir Al-Kilani (@sameerrblogs): Samir is from a family of 6 and was a uni engineering student. He and his family had only lived in their new house for a month before it was destroyed in a bombing. He wishes to complete his education abroad and support his family. (https://gofund.me/f20e7bc8) (vetted and promoted by @/gaza-evacuation-funds, vetted by association through @/ma7moudgaza2 (vetted by el-shab-hussein)) ($56 USD raised of $7,000 goal)

Rana (@rana-kh22): Rana is 18 years old and dreams of being a nurse. Her father has been martyred. She, her mother and her sisters wish to evacuate out of Gaza. (https://gofund.me/4fce5a5a) (#164 on @/gazavetters vetted list) ($75 USD raised of $30,000 goal)

Abdul Rahman Hilles (@abedhilles, hilles-abed): Abdul has a child named Karam. His wife Ola Al-Dahdouh was a journalist. She was martyred in this genocide when protecting Karam from a missile that fell on them. Abdul was severely injured by the same bombing; the sharpnel had seriously fractured his leg, pierced different parts of his body, and damaged the nerves in his hands and feet. He needs several operations, and he is also struggling to find food for his child. (https://gofund.me/c7ef3d9a) (vetted by 90-ghost)

Ahmed Alzanati (@ahmedalzanati): Ahmed is a civil engineer while his wife Heba is a teacher. They have been displaced, along with 14 other family members, and some of them have contacted diseases. His 9-year-old nephew was injured by sharpnel, another was seriously injured when fetching flour. They wish to evacuate out of Gaza. (https://gofund.me/40d31b4c) (https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G4JKGUE8W5G56) (#147 on @/gazavetters vetted list, #295 on Butterfly Effect Project Vetted list)

Enas Suleiman (@enas225): Enas and her husband have 5 children. Her husband was seriously injured in a bombing; his lungs have been pierced by sharpnel and he requires a surgery that is not available. Enas has lost her father in this genocide, and now she is the sole provider for her family. (https://gofund.me/77fab697) (#124 on @/gazavetters vetted list) (kr6,552 SEK raised of kr280,000)

11 October 

Muhammad (@mohammed-rh09, @mohamed-resh00, @mn-mohammed109, @mohamed-reesh09): Muhammad and his wife have 3 children: Sarah (5), Abboud (4), and Lara (3). They do not have the income to provide milk to Lara. Abboud has contracted hepatitis and is so traumatized he has become unable to speak. They are living in at tent in Mawasi Khan Yunis. They are fundraising to evacuate out of Gaza and buy daily necessities. (https://gofund.me/2b1c2e8f) (vetted by association as Mohammed is a brother of @/mohiy-gaza2 (shared by 90-ghost))

Maha Alzenati (@mahakamal): Mahar is a uni engineering student. She has 2 sisters and 3 brothers. She has lost many loved ones, including a memeber of her family. They wish to evacuate out of Gaza. (https://gofund.me/641630a2) (#149 on @/gazavetters vetted list) ($903 USD raised of $30,000 goal)

Maryam (@maryamsfamily): Maryam’s husband is seriously injured; he is suffing from inflammation and bleeding in the neck, but they do not have the money for the medication needed. They need to evacuate to get him the operation he needs. Other than her husband and her own children, she is also taking care of her orphaned nephews and nieces. (https://gofund.me/e7129a23) (#6 on @/gaza-evacuation-funds vetted list here)

Nuha Riyad Murad (@nuhamurad): Nuha and her husband have 3 children: Abdulrahman (14), Amr (12) and Jana (6). Their house has been destroyed. They wish to evacuate out of Gaza. (https://gofund.me/e62713cd) (#157 on @/gazavetters vetted list) ($125 USD raised of $55,000 goal)

Samah Aburakhia & Ibrahim (@aburakhiaibrahim, @ibrahimmo99): They are a family with 28 people, including 15 children. They are displaced and living at Nuseirat. They wish to evacuate out of Gaza. (https://gofund.me/36cc281d) (vetted by @/gaza-evacuation-funds)

Osama Al-Anqar (@osama-naser): Osama and his wife Rana have a baby daughter. His brother Mahmoud was martyred in a bombing, leaving behind his wife and children. His brother Ahmed had to have his foot amputated due to the same bombing. They are raisinng funds to buy daily necessities. (https://gofund.me/61b82f1f) (#12 on @/gazavetters vetted list)

10 October

Muhammad Shehab (@monashehab1999, @emanshehab): Muhammad and his wife Mona (24) have 2 daughters: Iman (6) and Tuline (5). They are also living with Muhammad’s parents. They wish to evacuate out of Gaza. (https://gofund.me/ecb192fd) (#111 on the @/gazavetters vetted list) (€1.267 raised of €30,000 goal)

Mohammed Alsharif (@mohammedfamily85, @mohammedfamily1985): Mohammed and Eman have 3 children: Wessam (16) and Ahmed (12) and Aleen (9). Ahmed is suffering from skin disseases while Aleen is suffering from malnutrition and immunodeficiency. Eman has a skin chronic disease called aphoto sensitivity and also a thyroid gland chronic disease. There is no medicine available for her. They often cannot even find water. (https://gofund.me/57fe27c8) (https://gofund.me/57fe27c8) (#151 on @/gazavetters vetted list) (£83 raised of £55,000 target)

Ahmed Alashi (@ahmadalashi): Ahmed’s father was killed in an airstrike that also destroyed their home. His mother is 68 years old and sick. They are fundraising to buy basic needs like food and clean water. (https://chuffed.org/project/help-ahmeds-family-in-gaza) (https://gofund.me/477775de) (shared by 90-ghost, #152 on Butterfly Effect Project vetted list.) ($76 raised of $10,000 goal on Chuffed, kr10,020 SEK raised of kr100,000 target in gfm)

Hamdi Hejazi (@hamdihijazi, @maysoonhej): Hamdi has 3 children: Lama (8), Hussam (5), and Maram (1 month old). His wife gave birth to Maram recently in the middle of this genocide. They wish to evacuate to Egypt. Their old gfm campaign was closed down by GoFundMe without reason, and now they have to start from scratch. (https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=WD3R3F63G8FM4) (#67 on the vetted fundraiser list by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi, also see here for more info) ($90 raised of $30,000)

Haitham & Sherin (@haithamnayef): Haitham and Sherin have 4 children. Sherin’s family home has been bombed and her father, mother and sister were martyred. His son’s head was stuck by shrapnel and he urgently needs a surgery! (https://gofund.me/a4c0bc08) (#8 on @/gaza-evacuation-funds list here) ($2,998 USD raised of $50,000 goal)

Hanin Al-Barqouni & Bassam Nasr (@hanin24albrqouni): Hanin and Bassam have been displaced. They are a couple who had trouble conceiving but wishes to get an IVF to have a child. They are struggling to have their basic needs met due to the scarcity of food, water and hygiene supplies. They wish to evacuate out of Gaza. (https://gofund.me/8917fd5a) (#1092 on Butterfly Effect Project vetted list)

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[probablyasocialecologist]

Deny and deflect is Israel’s usual strategy for dealing with high-profile civilian deaths. The deflection has come in three forms: One is claiming Palestinians killed the civilian (famous examples are British cameraman James Miller, 10-year-old Abir Aramin, the three daughters and niece of Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish inside their home in Gaza while he begged on live television for Israel to stop firing). Often Israel claims that the victim was near a site from which Palestinian gunmen were attacking Israelis and, hence, got killed by accident by Israeli gunfire (four Gaza children on the beach, 40 people taking refuge at a U.N. school in Gaza, the British U.N. worker Iain Hook in Jenin). Israel has also claimed that the civilian was involved in an attack on Israeli soldiers or was a member of a Palestinian militant organization (photojournalist Yaser Murtaja in Gaza). In other cases, Israel said that the facts around a killing are unclear, but definitely not Israel’s fault (Palestinian family killed by shell on beach in Gaza). In the case of the 2003 death of American pro-Palestinian activist, Rachel Corrie, who was run over by a military bulldozer, the Israeli army claimed “a slab of concrete” was likely what killed her. When Israeli missiles brought down an 11-story media building last year in Gaza, where Palestinian media networks and the Associated Press were located, Israel justified it by saying it was being used by Hamas.

Orly Halpern, The Problems With Israel's Version of the Killing of Reporter Shireen Abu Akleh

[northgazaupdates]

25 February 2024

Resistance News Network reports the murder by the IOF of photojournalist Abdullah Al-Hajj in Al-Shati, northern Gaza Strip. The announcement reads

Photojournalist Abdullah Al-Hajj ascended to martyrdom as a result of a drone strike targeting him while covering the destruction of Al-Shati' camp in the northern #Gaza Strip.

He is the 133rd journalist martyr in Gaza since October 7th, 2023.

Glory to the martyrs.

May God have mercy on him /الله يرحمه