#Refugee Camps

[watermelllonarchive]

Rawan is a recent communications graduate who has been documenting the war on her Instagram since October. In this video, shared in mid-June, Rawan shows how bathrooms are built in the camps.

[Note: I used Google translate and it confused the word bathroom (حمام "hamaam") for pigeon (حمامة "hamama"). ]

In the camps, access to basic hygienic necessities is difficult, but people have engineered ways to survive and reduce the spread of disease however they can. In the video, a group of men construct a toilet and sewage waste pit. They start by mixing sand, gravel, and water into cement to form a base. Then, they place the toilet on the cement base. They dig a deep pit for the waste and line the pit with salvaged metal to keep the sides of the pit from caving in. The men cover the hole with plywood, plastic, and a final cement layer, but leave space for a pipe connecting the toilet to the waste pit. Finally, once construction is finished, the men erect a tent around the toilet for privacy.

Rawan is on Instagram @ rawan.m.saleh. You can donate to her Go Fund Me to evacuate her family here.

Available Go Fund Me campaigns for people whose stories have been shared on watermelllonarchive can be found in the resources post.

[phobic-human]

Harvest - Fight - Build - Read

Democratic Front For The Liberation Of Palestine (DFLP)

Artist: P. P.

Circa 1967

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Seth J. Frantzman

In retrospect, it’s important to look at UNRWA as an organization that was created to thwart the establishment of Israel. The UN approved the Partition Plan for British Mandate Palestine in 1947. Israel declared independence in 1948.

UNRWA was then established and took a significant portion of the Palestinian population under its wing, effectively becoming a state within a state.

Because Egypt and Jordan had taken over the areas of the Arab state that were supposed to be established based on the Partition Plan, UNRWA stepped in as a kind of state in the making for Palestinians. Most people don’t view UNRWA as a proto-state, but in essence, that is what it has become.

UNRWA camps served as the foundation for the majority of Palestinian political – and, later, militant and terrorist – activities. Schools and refugee camps organized spaces for the groups that emerged, ranging from Fatah to the PFLP to Hamas.

For instance, Hamas gained power partly through areas in Gaza, such as Khan Yunis, from which killed leader Yahya Sinwar hailed. Many other refugee camps also became known as bases of various groups and gunmen.

UNRWA would prefer not to take responsibility for the fact that its camps became the main organizing ground for gunmen and terrorism. In fact, the rejection of Israel’s existence comes primarily from the UNRWA camps.

What that means is that the UNRWA state or empire was organized to destroy Israel and use the refugees as the main engine of this destruction. For decades, the number of refugees has grown, and their political aspirations have shifted from supporting two states to supporting one state. October 7 was an outgrowth of this shift.

The concept of UNRWA is to keep Palestinians dependent, living in refugee camps generation after generation, while using its young men as foot soldiers to fight Israel.Winding down the camps and having the people live normal lives and believe in two states and peace could have potentially resulted in peace. However, the UNRWA mandate was never to embrace peace, two states, and coexistence.

One can draw a direct line from the end of the Second World War and the end of the Holocaust to the establishment of the State of Israel and the creation of UNRWA as a weapon in the hands of the international community to try to undermine Israel and use refugees as proxies against Israel.

This line is clear because the UN played a key role in the Partition Plan.  The UN then undermined its own plan by creating UNRWA, which served to perpetuate the conflict.Each succeeding generation has taken up the baton from the UNRWA camps and launched wars against Israel. The first war occurred in the 1950s, when Egypt used “infiltrators” and fedayeen (guerrillas) against Israel.

Then there was the Jordanian Civil War, aka Black September, in the 1970s. The war then moved to Lebanon, where Palestinians upended the Lebanese system, leading to Israel’s invasion in 1982.

Then the movement moved via Tunisia back to Gaza and the West Bank and laid the groundwork for the First Intifada. When the Oslo peace deal emerged, Hamas emerged to upend it.

Since the 1990s, the UNRWA camps have not embraced two states or peace but have instead continued to embrace extremism, thereby becoming a hotbed for radicalism.The road to October 7 was paved from there. In Gaza, when Hamas took over, UNRWA didn’t oppose Hamas but was available to partner with it.

Now, Gaza has been destroyed in another war because of UNRWA’s unwillingness to end this conflict and stop using refugees as a tool against Israel.

[st4rsinthenight]

★Hello y'all, this is crucial.★

★So, this is: @lawrence86sblog, and they, along with 480 members, need help, support and supplies as well.★

★Let me fill you in on their situation★ :

Five years ago, Lawrence fled away from Uganda to Kenya due to the large amount homophobia and hostility in the area and have been in Kahuma refugee camps (which are located in the North Wester Turkana Region). Although, because the Kenyan government denied to speed up the process of their cases, they had no option from the meeting with them (the government) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Lawrence's case was put on hold on 19 of December 2023

As of now, them, along with 480 other members, as resided at Goromp Camp which is located in South Sudan. From what I managed to understand from the information that Lawrence gave me, I'd that the place there is very remote and they as well made it clear that life there is very hard, especially for the LGBTQ refugees, considering the fact that they are devoid of basic emergency supplies.

The members of the refugee camp include of children, women, men and people- all from different sexual orientations and they all are in need and in want of shelter, food, basic living supplies in general.

From what I also understood, most of the the members there don't have the ability to access the internet, let alone have a smartphone and setting up a fundraiser is not much of an option for them, if we include the fact that they are in Africa. Also, despite them having an account, they do have limited access on the internet, so other people of their community spreading their wants for help is kind of, well, limited.

So, with all that said:

THEY NEED HELP, SHOW THEM SOME SUPPORT Y'ALL !! (and set up a fundraiser for them if you can, but contact them to see if they allow you to)

★ NOTES: I'm so sorry if I got their pronouns wrong, I just felt the need to post this quickly. I happily change, or add anything to make this more accurate !! ★

★Steren / Astro, out.★

[eretzyisrael]

[moonlayl]

Syrian refugee camp burned in Lebanon by terrorist hezbollah members.

Will anyone condemn this?

[guldaastan]

the new york war crimes times has called refugee camps as tent cities like they are some new minimalistic architectural movement and not people having to live in temporary structures in the blazing heat due to ethnic cleansing and forced displacement with the fear of being bombed looming over them.

[girlactionfigure]

[onbreakreadlastpost]

Despair in Chad camps as violence and hunger in Sudan drive 25,000 across border in a week

“Never in modern history have so many people faced starvation and famine as in Sudan today,” said the group of about a dozen independent experts. “The world must pay attention to the largest modern famine taking shape in Sudan today.”

Please consider donating to the Sudanese red crescent society and/or the red cross disaster fund

Please keep talking about sudan

[timaeuslover001]

This is for those that Israel is “attacking refugee camps”

[st4rsinthenight]

Hello,

I apologize for reaching out like this and hope I’m not inconveniencing you. I’m a queer refugee from Uganda currently residing in the Gorom Refugee Camp in South Sudan, where I’ve been in exile for nearly five years due to life-threatening threats related to my sexual orientation.

I represent over 300 LGBTQ+ individuals who are in urgent need of support. Any small donation you can make would greatly aid our survival. If you’re unable to donate, sharing this message could help us reach someone who can.

Your support could make a significant difference in our lives.

https://gofund.me/4d80b32c

Thank you for considering.

https://gofund.me/4d80b32c

★I am not able to donate, I'm sorry for that, however I could put your reblog your pinned post on my reblog account as a way to share it around.★

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Every year, Lynn Hastings, the UN Humanitarian and Resident Coordinator in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, issues a press release before the school year discussing how Israel and Jewish settlers have been awful to Palestinian children.

This year, as far as I can tell for the first time, the press release also mentions a couple of ways that Palestinian terror groups are endangering Palestinian children..

Physical barriers placed by Palestinians in refugee camps, some rigged with explosive materials, are threatening the safety of children and making it harder for them to reach their classrooms.  And reports continue of children being enrolled in “summer camps” by armed groups, increasing their risk of being exposed to violence or military content.   

I've mentioned that the IEDs that Palestinian terror groups have been placing on the roads of camps in order to blow up Israeli vehicles are a danger to ordinary Palestinians, but this is the first time I have seen any NGO mention the danger, even if it downplays the danger.

Similarly, even though these "summer camps" have been run by terror groups for decades, this is the first time I have seen the UN say anything negative about them. The sentence is comical: "increasing their risk of being exposed?" That is the entire purpose of the camps, and there are lots of videos and photos showing the children with real or mock weapons!

Hastings fails to mention that most of the "children" killed by Israel this year were either child soldiers recruited by terror groups or were actively engaged in attacks. 

Perhaps the UN felt forced to mention Palestinian responsibility towards the children's welfare because it has had to admit that it couldn't open up schools in the Lebanese Ein el-Hilweh camp because of terror groups that have taken over the schools.

Although there is plenty wrong with this press release, it is  a slight improvement over the obsessively one-sided anti-Israel propaganda of the past.

[agentfascinateur]

A great account for GoFundMe campaigns 👍🏼

today's vetted fundraisers. please please continue to share and donate in whatever capacities you're able. these families just want to live.

june 25th:

Hani Al-Sharif, his wife, and their five young children ($967/$50,000) - @haniibrahimsh, verified by @/nabulsi

Samer Abu Ras, his wife Shurooq, and their three young children (kr41,032 SEK/kr450,000 SEK) - @sameraburass, verified by @/ibtisams

Siraj Abudayeh, his wife, and their three children ($50 CAD/$82,000 CAD) - @siiraj2024, #219 on @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi's spreadsheet

Mohammed Alanqer, his wife Enas Majed, and their four young children, one a newborn under a month old (€20,360/€38,000) - @mohammedalanqer, verified by @/nabulsi

Basel Ayyad and his family of eight, including his daughter who needs vital treatment to preserve her eyesight (CHF955/CHF60,000) - @basel-1995, verified by @/sayruq

Dalia Mohisen, her three siblings, their parents, and several extended family members (€7,081/€35,000) - @daliamohisen, verified by @/90-ghost

14-year-old Malk Al Zaeem, her siblings, their parents, and their sick grandfather ($16,191 CAD/$50,000 CAD) - @malkzaeem, verified by @/nabulsi

Mahmoud Ziad, his brothers, and their parents (both of whom need medical treatment) ($11,963/$30,000) - @mahmoud-ziad99, verified by @/ibtisams

Mohammed Haboub and his family of four (kr7,860 SEK/kr300,000 SEK) - @mohammedhaboub, verified by @/90-ghost

Nader Shoshaa and family (€6,023/€120,000) - @nadergaza, verified by @/nabulsi

Momen Alostaz's family of ten, including a one-year-old, a newborn, and Momen's chronically ill parents (€12,099/€70,000) - @mo98h, @82188974, verified by @/palipunk

Mahmoud Khalaf's family of eight (€7,597/€30,000) - @mahmoudkhalaff, verified by @/fallahifag

Hasan Saied and his wife Lena ($12,262 CAD/$20,000 CAD) - @hasanandlena, verified by the coat of arms filmmaking group

every link on here is an opportunity to give life and hope. don't turn away. your help is urgently needed, whatever form it takes

[mymainstreamblog]

I just woke up and I need to cook something. Before I drift back to the sleep, I would like to hear a nice bedtime story.

I wish to hear the story of one, 1, Palestinian family who has resisted the genocide, escaped Gaza and rebuilt their lives. Tell me about a family who does not have to live in the slums of Egypt, forever stuck without statehood or work permits. A family that escaped beyond a refugee camp where the only improvement is lack of bombing, everything else just as miserable as before. A family who has income other than begging or illegal work. Tell me about a single child who got shrapnel removed from them before it was too late. A child who is not denied education for being Palestinian. Or just someones grandma crossing to a country that does not let Palestinian refugees die to treatable cancers. Just some place with basic human decency, a place where Palestinians are allowed to live.

I wish there is a single light in the darkness.