#I double checked and this is indeed a vetted fundraiser

[spock-smokes-weed]

Welcome,

I am Mohammed from Gaza. Because of the war on Gaza, I lost my mother, father, and brothers, and I and my children were injured. I appeal to you to help protect my children, get them out of Gaza, and complete my treatment abroad.

With a broken heart I ask for a donation of €5 for my innocent children.

My campaign is documented👍.

I am not a bot or a scammer, and you can verify my story by requesting any information you need.

Please donate and share my story🙏.

Thank you very much 🌹.

Of course!!! I’ll do as much as I can!!!

I’m only able to donate €5, but I’ll gladly share and encourage everyone to donate €5 as well!! I hope your family is able to make it to safety and your children to the medical care they need 🩷

From the river to the sea 🇵🇸

[triviallytrue]

I see the benefit in “was able to follow along each step and check for myself that the stated claim was true” but I’ve also seen people say the private vetting process can include things like “had a phone call with them where they fluently spoke the Palestinian dialect of Arabic” that can’t be checked by everyone, or “privately showed me their ID/birth certificate/bank info/official documents”, which probably shouldn’t be publicized. if these sorts of things (which seem fairly reliable if true) are indeed being involved in the process in at least some cases, how do you think people should vouch for that beyond a “trust me it’s vetted” without further clarification, or is it impossible to do so from your perspective since they could just lie?

so my suggested solution to these would be:

post a recording of the phone call, so that other Palestinian Arabic speakers can also attest that it's true

post redacted, watermarked versions of official documents

but you're getting at a very big problem: it takes a lot of information to vet people. the post i reblogged was only able to vet that one fundraiser because she's a PhD with a linkedin, instagram, tiktok, and pictures of her on a scientific organization's website. most people won't have that.

at a certain point, it also becomes a nightmare for the vetters (all or almost all of whom i suspect are just people trying their best in a horrific situation). if it takes an hour (or more) to fully vet one single gofundme, there are a single digit or low double digit number speakers of Palestinian Arabic on here with blog histories that stretch back before October 7th with the ability to vet people, and hundreds of gofundmes... well, you do the math.

this is the kind of work that is normally done by people who are paid to do it full-time, in a centralized fashion, not ad-hoc on the internet. amateurs are going to make mistakes - i've seen blogs successfully filtering out unsophisticated scammers, but this current discourse has already rooted out at least 3 scammers who made it onto the vetted lists. it's asymmetric - scammers can do this full time, hone their methods, figure out what exposed them last time and fix it, and overall iteratively improve the credibility of their scams, but vetters can't really keep raising the standards with the time and resources they have access to.

so unless we make the standards so high that they exclude many actual Palestinians (standards like the ones used in that ask), i think there will be some risk of even vetted fundraisers being scams. how big? 1%? 5%? 10%? i don't know, but it's definitely nonzero, and based on the uncovered scams so far, they are diverting thousands of dollars (possibly tens or hundreds of thousands) away from actual Palestinians.

which is why i think people should just donate to the UNRWA. there's a 100% chance your money will go to helping real Palestinians, and while it won't be as impactful for an individual as getting them across the Rafah crossing, that's only an option for a very small percentage of Palestinians anyway. as said before, there are 800,000 Palestinians in Rafah, something like 500 of which cross each day. those that can't cross and the Palestinians in other parts of Gaza deserve aid as well. people are at risk of starvation and have very limited access to medical care. donation to the UNRWA and organizations like it doesn't free anyone, but it does keep them alive, and the money doesn't end up in the pockets of corrupt Egyptian border officials who will wring every penny they can out of Palestinian refugees.

people are, of course, welcome to do whatever they want with their money, but those are my 2 cents.

[ask-azurearts]

I've got another 3 request in my inbox so here we go; stevennmwita - blog is only 5 days old and I have deadass seen the exact same header on a completely different blog. Nothing comes up on tumblr search results, claims to be vetted by 90-ghost but searching their blog yields no vetting post so this is a scam blog!

mohammed-atallah - has been shared by multiple blogs and has indeed been vetted as their posts will say, this one is safe to share and donate to!

ayahoftheday - this one has been vetted by the accounts 90-ghost northgazaupdates2 riding-with-the-wild-hunt mushroomjar and belongs to a man named Islam who's accounts he had been sharing the fundraiser through got shadow banned by Tumblr (hence why he will @ to one that says islamgazaaccount3) this one should be safe but always double check to be safe!

I also want to use this post to point out something very important DOUBLE CHECK NAMES! The second blog I just shared comes up on two different names, one with a - spacing between the first and last name and one without, I cannot personally confirm if the one without the - is tied to the same person so double triple check names when you receive asks.

[sketchingstars03]

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ne9gzx-help-them-to-survive?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet-first-launch&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

Dear Friends,

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to share an urgent plea for help. Due to the ongoing conflict in Gaza, my family and I have been forced to flee our home and seek refuge in Khan Younis. My mother, who is pregnant, is in critical need of assistance to ensure her safety and the safety of her unborn child.

We are facing severe hardships and are struggling to provide her with the necessary medical care and basic necessities. I have launched a campaign to raise funds for my mother's survival during this perilous time.

Your support in sharing our campaign on social media could make a life-saving difference. Please help us spread the word and gather the support we desperately need.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Sincerely,

Please help us by sharing the post on your page so that we can collect donations and get out of the war. You are our hope. I will be very grateful to you . ❤️🙏🏼 

"this fundraiser is vetted by nabulsi, fallahifag, el-shab-hussein, ibtisams, sayruq"

Sorry for the wait. I did a double check to make sure the fundraiser is indeed vetted (as I always do) as I don’t want to accidentally send support to people who are exploiting this horrific situation for their own gain.

To anyone reading this, please donate if you can! If not, sharing also helps!

[charmikarma]

Dear Friends,

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to share an urgent plea for help. Due to the ongoing conflict in Gaza, my family and I have been forced to flee our home and seek refuge in Khan Younis. My mother, who is pregnant, is in critical need of assistance to ensure her safety and the safety of her unborn child.

We are facing severe hardships and are struggling to provide her with the necessary medical care and basic necessities. I have launched a campaign to raise funds for my mother's survival during this perilous time.

Your support in sharing our campaign on social media could make a life-saving difference. Please help us spread the word and gather the support we desperately need.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Sincerely,

Please help us by sharing the post on your page so that we can collect donations and get out of the war. You are our hope. I will be very grateful to you . ❤️🙏🏼

"this fundraiser is vetted by nabulsi, fallahifag, el-shab-hussein, ibtisams, sayruq"

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ne9gzx-help-them-to-survive?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet-first-launch&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

went ahead and double checked - this is indeed legit. share + donate if you can

i hope you can raise the money to keep your mother and her child safe 💜

[cosmicgamerboy]

Dear Friends,

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to share an urgent plea for help. Due to the ongoing conflict in Gaza, my family and I have been forced to flee our home and seek refuge in Khan Younis. My mother, who is pregnant, is in critical need of assistance to ensure her safety and the safety of her unborn child.

We are facing severe hardships and are struggling to provide her with the necessary medical care and basic necessities. I have launched a campaign to raise funds for my mother's survival during this perilous time.

Your support in sharing our campaign on social media could make a life-saving difference. Please help us spread the word and gather the support we desperately need.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Sincerely,

Please help us by sharing the post on your page so that we can collect donations and get out of the war. You are our hope. I will be very grateful to you . ❤️🙏🏼

"this fundraiser is vetted by nabulsi, fallahifag, el-shab-hussein, ibtisams, sayruq"

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ne9gzx-help-them-to-survive?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet-first-launch&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

I've double checked and this fundraiser is indeed verified. I'd be happy to share.

[komakomacora]

From now on, regarding posts about Palestinian fundraisers, if you DM me, I will be personally vetting by:

-Asking for a picture of the recipient, with a way to verify they are indeed the recipient, and not a pulled imagd.

-Asking for other social medias or platforms to communicate to

-Asking for the information of the organizer of both the account and the donation page, specifically for PayPal

Theres no fucking reason why my inbox should have the same exact text messages and profile pictures for 8 gfms for different accounts. Its why I don't like being on here. Its harder to verify things, I've been scammed thrice on here. I share and donate more over on Instagram.

I will also donate to direct aid organizations as well, and advise that on here to double check everything.

[shadybug]

Dear Supporter, I hope this message finds you well. My name is Samar, and I am a mother from Gaza. I’m reaching out to you with an urgent plea to help share my fundraiser. The ongoing genocide in Gaza has taken everything from us—our home, our livelihood, and our sense of safety. We are now living in dire conditions, struggling to survive. 💔

I humbly ask you to visit my campaign. Your support, whether by donating or sharing, can help us reach more people who are able to make a difference. Thank you for standing with Palestine and for your unwavering commitment to justice and freedom. Together, we can keep hope alive. 🙏🕊 Donation Link: https://gofund.me/5b6f1940 This campaign has been verified by: 📌 @90-ghost 📌** @gazavetters, #53)** 📌 @gaza-eviction-funds(@el-shab-hussein - @nabuls)

Hi Samar, so much love and luck to you. While I can't donate, I can share in hopes that someone else can. I have double checked Samar's campaign - it is indeed vetted, and donations are protected!

[lilypixels]

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ne9gzx-help-them-to-survive?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet-first-launch&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

Dear Friends,

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to share an urgent plea for help. Due to the ongoing conflict in Gaza, my family and I have been forced to flee our home and seek refuge in Khan Younis. My mother, who is pregnant, is in critical need of assistance to ensure her safety and the safety of her unborn child.

We are facing severe hardships and are struggling to provide her with the necessary medical care and basic necessities. I have launched a campaign to raise funds for my mother's survival during this perilous time.

Your support in sharing our campaign on social media could make a life-saving difference. Please help us spread the word and gather the support we desperately need.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Sincerely,

Please help us by sharing the post on your page so that we can collect donations and get out of the war. You are our hope. I will be very grateful to you . ❤️🙏🏼

"this fundraiser is vetted by nabulsi, fallahifag, el-shab-hussein, ibtisams, sayruq"

My heart goes out to you, and wishes safety for you and your family ;;

I double checked this and this fundraiser has indeed been vetted and is included on a list here

So far €21,442 of €45,000 goal has been raised. If you are able, pls donate and/or share !!