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Please have heart and do not skip!

Donations urgently needed.

Nader and his family are nearly reaching half of their goal, and we need as much help as possible!

This fundraiser is vetted by @gazavetters, number four on the spreadsheet here

They're not asking for much, just €10 should suffice!

By donating, you are not only helping Nader, but you are saving him and his family.

We have managed to raise €12000 since the beginning of our campaign, and as with any other Palestinian who are fighting for their lives against the oppressors, I do not wish for Nader and his family to succumb to the murderous regime. Please, together we can raise enough so that they can afford for basic necessities as well as for them to be able to escape through the border crossing, once it opens.

We have already dealt with Zionists who attempted to compromise the campaign due to their own vendetta against the Ghazzans, and thanks to you all, we've successfully fough back and won, proving the veracity of this campaign. Please, do not back down. We need everything we can muster to help Nader and his family.

It's only gonna get harder now that UNRWA has been banned in the Settler state. Let's fight this battle together!

Tag list:

@90-ghost @heritageposts @gazavetters @neechees @butchniqabi @fluoresensitive @khanger @autisticmudkip @beserkerjewel @furiousfinnstan @xinakwans @batekush @appsa @nerdyqueerr @butchsunsetshimmer @biconicfinn @stopmotionguy @willgrahamscock @strangeauthor @bryoria @shesnake @legallybrunettedotcom @lautakwah @sovietunion @evillesbianvillain @antibioware @akajustmerry @dizzymoods @ree-duh @neptunerings @explosionshark @dlxxv-vetted-donations @vague-humanoid @buttercuparry @sayruq @malcriada @sar-soor @northgazaupdates2 @feluka @dirhwangdaseul @jdon @ibtisams @sawasawako @memingursa @schoolhater @toesuckingoctober @waskuyecaozu @lapithae @ryo-yamada @opencommunion @el-shab-hussein @feluka @paper-mario-wiki

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ok last thing. but what people fundamentally need to get through their heads is the significance of gaza fundraisers not being the same as like mutual aid when you're helping someone get groceries, because it is a genocide. there is insane deliberate scarcity and prices are unmanageable, because there is nowhere nearly enough for everyone, so only people who can pay can eat. and what positioning individual fundraisers as the only course of action does is quite simply give a tiny percentage of random people whose fundraisers take off the ability to pay those prices while thousands of others can't. and every one of those thousands of people without a fundraiser is suffering through the same inconceivably horrific reality. it is giving a few completely desperate people out of hundreds of thousands a slightly more favorable position in a horrific war economy of imposed scarcity. and what grassroots community kitchens do is try to mitigate in some small way that inconceivable hierarchy of who can pay and who can't, by stretching ingredients as far as they can last to cook meals at large scale and give them out at no cost. and obviously people are still going to send money to their friends and families because this is hell what else are we supposed to do but please just think about that before promoting endless individual fundraisers as somehow the most ethical way to help

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campaigns that have reached out for support here

updated Nov. 7, 2024

(Low on funds) Adham Ayyad (€491/€50,000)

Emtsal Malhe (€7,010/€50,000)

Ahmed Hellis ($678/$30,000)

Nuha Harara ($11,765/$35,000)

Osama Al angar (£5,248/£50,000)

Mohiy-Resh ($82,744/$120,000)

Ahmed Alanqar (€65,029/€75,000)

Basel Ayyad (CHF8,624/CHF60,000)

Heba Allababidi (kr2,508/70,000)

Mohammed Asfour €9,196/€80,000)

Haya Nahed (€92,823/€100,000)

Salem Baker (€7,024/€38,000)

Sohaib Asfour (£6,613/£8,000)

Fadi Ayyad ($43,162/$50,000)

Mohamed Jadalhaq (kr90,747/kr250,000)

Etaf Al-Qataa (€4,081/€100,000)

Ahmed Halas (€20,163/€80,000)

Amal Musa (€1,496/€53,000)

Lama Hourani ($6,349/$10,000)

Etaf Al-Qataa (€4,081/€50,000)

Hamdi Ayyad (2,595/€25,000)

Maged Gaza ($6,020/$70,000)

Abdullah Abuzaid (€7,393/€25,000)

Safaa Yasser (€1,070/€50,000)

Ahmed Elbornou ($1,389/$40,000)

Jumana Hassan ($19,835/$60,000)

Mohamed Jadalhaq (kr267,372/kr500,000)

Najah Al-Haila (€4,155/€80,000)

Salim Alshelih (€1,398/€90,000)

Aseel Asad ($69,514/$100,000) @aseelo680

Safaa Jad Al Haq ($28,777/$75,000) @sfaamq10

Osama Basil (€3,901/€15,000) @aymenbasil

Rosemarie H. (€72/€40,000) @banan912

Imad Abunada (€872/€20,000) @abunadafamily

Maged Gaza ($7,693/$70,000) @majedgerbawi

Mahmoud Ayyad (€8,025/€55,000) @mahmoudayyads

(Low on funds) Ayam Zaid ($725 CAD/$60,000 CAD) @tayemanqar

Ahmed BA (€12,965/€22,500) @leengazaps

(Low on funds) Mahmoud Al-Safadi (€135/€30,000) @nedaafamily

Noor Ayman (€6,962/€60,000) @malak3ayman

the other blogs are @mohamed-meq @najahmeq2 @dodooomar @lawyer-adhamayyad88 @ameenafamily if you need to check for anything (unfortunately some @ that were here before have been deactivated but were confirmed beforehand)

please donate or share if you can

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art by @christiansinglebabes

Urgent! Please help a father save his three young daughters from war

This family is very low on funds, with only €4,237 out of the €40,000 goal

I was reached out to by Ahed to make a post for his family. This fundraiser is vetted by Gazavetters, #229 on their spreadsheet

Ahed is a 33 year old father of three young girls with his wife Maisoon. Getting Ahed the funds to evacuate his family is very urgent because they have three children under the age of ten with them, who currently don’t have access to food, clean water, or medical treatment they need. They’re at risk of bombs, infectious illnesses, and starvation every day they remain in Gaza. every hour matters

Ahed’s daughters are the light of his life and his motivation to keep going, and he’s campaigning on here every day to keep them safe. In Ahed’s words, his daughter Fatima (9) is “the closest to my heart, and my little one.”, Iman (6) “The friendly, kind, and loving child who is loved by everyone”, and little Nour, only one year old: “Who did not live her life like other children, as she was born two months before the war”.

Imagine that you’ve just had a baby girl, and you look at her with so much love and imagine with excitement what a bright future she’ll have and how she’ll play with her siblings. And only two months later, your whole life is turned upside down, and you have to wonder every day how you’ll feed her and keep her safe.

This is what happened to Ahed and his wife when they should’ve been at their happiest with a newborn daughter, everything turned into a nightmare. Their apartment was destroyed in a bombing, they were displaced multiple times, and suddenly they were raising their beautiful daughters in a war zone.

Every hour in Gaza is dangerous. Please help get Ahed, Maisoon and their children to safety as soon as possible 🙏🏼 Every donation will bring them closer to a future where Fatima, Iman, and Nour can play together and go to school and rest and recover from what they’ve been through.

Please give Ahed and Maisoon peace where they don’t have to watch their children suffer from illness and malnutrition, the worst thing for a parent to experience.

Please let Nour experience what peace feels like.

Thank you for reading their story, if you’re not able to donate, please share so it can reach people who are able to.

Donate here to save their family

@autisticmudkip @90-ghost @heritageposts @furiousfinnstan @biconicfinn @butchniqabi @neechees @strangeauthor @appsa @akajustmerry @dirhwangdaseul @toesuckingoctober @vampiricvenus @sawasawako @brutaliakhoa

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Oday is 19 years old and is raising money to help his family of 8 people survive through the genocide.

Oday recently injured himself while clearing rubble from his friend’s street, it was cleaned, bandaged up, and by the next day he was back clearing the rubble… keeping his balance with a crutch. He deserves rest, but the conditions he lives in does not allow it.

I cannot imagine how exhausting and painful it must be to clear rubble while injured.

Please donate to Oday’s campaign if you are able to and boost if you cannot!

£901 raised of £15,000

Can we get to our first £1,000 by the end of this week?

Vetted by @gaza-evacuation-funds here

Tagged for reach under cut:

@feluka @ibitisams @el-shab-hussein @tamarrud

@catgirl-kaiju @northgazaupdates

@nabulsi @paper-mario-wiki @dlxxv-vetted-donations @acepumpkinpatrick @schoolhater

@gothhabiba

@palistani @fairuzfan @sar-soor @sabertoothwalrus @tokudeku-or-bust @a-shade-of-blue

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hi, don't scroll. i'm coming at you with a list of palestinian fundraisers who very, very urgently need our help. please donate if you can, and reblog to boost. thank you!

najah al-haila, vetted by gazavetters (#49), 4,192€/80,000€

youssef alaa al-yazji, vetted by gazavetters (#87), 20,839kr SEK/200,000kr (1$=10kr)

dima rashed al-dahdouh, unvetted but RIS is clean, 506€/30,000€

heba's family, vetted by association through safaabed8, 2,920€/40,000€

siraj abu dayyeh, #219 on the vetted gaza evacuation fundraiser list, $89,084 CAD/$150,000

ola's family, #205 on the vetted gaza evacuation fundraiser list, $57,887 USD/$85,000

nour alanqar, vetted by 90-ghost, 23,757€/40,000€

ola ferwana, vetted by gazavetters (#60), 10,782€/35,000€

belal salem, vetted by 90-ghost, $1,276 USD/$20,000

abood and his pregnant wife, vetted by mohiy-gaza, $22,314 USD/$40,000

youssef al-habil, whose son has recently been hospitalized on account of a respiratory illness, #406 on the butterfly project list, 23,774€/30,000€

abdulsalam al-anqar, vetted by gazavetters (#4), 8,228€/50,000€

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answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:

tl;dr:

israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.

with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

long answers under the cut!

if you wanna donate to a charity that's absolutely fine, but the thing is most charities (and even the UN!) are unable to make it into gaza in the first place, leaving aid rotting at the egyptian side of the border or subject to israeli settler attacks

not to mention, charities and nonprofits also maintain a paternalistic colonial relationship with the indigenous people they are trying to help, determining what aid they need for them instead of returning power to them and letting them make their own choices

i'm not here to say that one option is better than the other, just that they achieve different things and are equally legitimate. there's an attitude among people who question the legitimacy of these gofundme campaigns that somehow the people promoting them are telling them not to donate to charities. nobody is stopping you from donating to charities. we are just asking that you do not dehumanize the very real gazans in your inbox just because their method of asking for aid is more direct and risky.

unfortunately that's exactly what has happened. because israel destroyed all of gaza's more formalized infrastructure, it seems that organized crime and rampant inflation has taken its place. aid is supposed to be free, but in order to save for evacuation or the cost of living, people have started selling them at an inflated price. and aid that is truly free attracts intense, large crowds that are dangerous to navigate.

this was posted on abc a few days ago

it's pure, unrestrained capitalism. i've had multiple palestinians describe this situation to me confidence. that's why everything's so expensive now. why people have to rent out tiny plots of land for their tents to sit on, why my friend @siraj2024 still has to buy tarps to cover the broken windows of the overpriced bombed out apartment he rented, and why a bag of flour can cost a thousand bucks in the north.

even before israel closed and then bombed the rafah crossing, the egyptian hala travel agency was only allowing people to cross the border if they paid a hefty $5000 USD per adult / $2500 USD per child bribe. it denies doing this, but the hundreds of stories from palestinians say otherwise.

with regard to the economy, here in america we saw something similar happen in the wake of hurricane helene and milton. the podcaster margaret killjoy describes how she saw dual economies rise after asheville was fully cut off from the rest of the country - some people offered each other supplies for free in a sort of mutual aid honor system, and some people required payment when they lent supplies because they themselves needed to buy stuff for their families. these dual economies exist in gaza too. and this means they all still need money to survive.

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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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I'd like to once again talk about a human being who I respect so much and who is such a hero, coordinating to vet hundreds of fundraisers, without consideration to himself and only in consideration of the people he might help. @ayeshjourney , who has been helping run @gaza-evacuation-funds. I am so fortunate to consider Mohammed my friend and for this opportunity to use my platform to give back the support he's given me and others, even just by a fraction.

He is still fundraising for his own family during this horrific genocide. Please support him as much as you can and share his fundraiser far and wide. He is by far so deserving.

He has raised £12,061 so far and his current short term goal is £15,000.

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I'm just convinced people don't give a fuck because even on instagram and tiktok and twitter and youtube there's countless palestinians taking time to record and edit videos of themselves and speaking english and anything else for the algorithm and people still don't donate. There's people like Dr.Mustafa Elmasri on twitter posting constantly about whats happening and other people's fundraisers and tweets from Arabic in English and you can find his publications on Research Gate and you can find interviews with him and more. it's not about fundraisers not being verified because even then you can easily find people to donate to or find these people on any other platform yourself if you are unsure. It's about not caring. And even then people that most care are others from the global south where currencies aren't even as strong as EUR or USD but they still find it in their hearts and take time out of their day to donate whatever they can. I meant to link another account on here as example that on tiktok there's palestinians posting and I've just found out that they deleted Mohammed's account (@/saleh_aljafarawi10/MOHAMMED 🇵🇸🍉💜), an account that my sister told me about in the first place because I don't use tiktok. I can only find the fact that it existed on wayback machine but no videos of his are available on there. I don't know how to find out if he remade on any platform but i've at least remembered his gofundme link (that has €105,950 raised of the €120,000 goal). I don't know what else to say.

I only have this video of his saved on my phone. i feel like crying

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IT'S VERY IMPORTANT 🚨

Are you just tired of these kinds of posts coming from G@za strip that ask you not to skip and to read the whole post, interact with it, and help in sharing/ reblogging it? Well, maybe you are right, but guess what? We are also tired of living in this reality for a whole 11 months.💔

And you know what? You have no idea how mentally and emotionally trying this is. Asking for help isn't easy at all, but when I think that the price will be staying alive, getting our basic needs and rebuilding our lives, it pushes me more and more to do this until we reach our goal.

This is Ola, the older sister who is trying to help her family. For 11 months until now, we have been struggling to get proper food after prices increased by 15 to 20 times, struggling to have clean water for use and drinking and now we're out of them all. We are trying to survive under starvation, thirst, and poverty. So please, if you can give help to our campaign, don't hesitate.

Every simple thing makes a difference in changing the situation we are in. You can help us either by giving direct help to our campaign or simply by reblogging this post. We would be very thankful if you could share our campaign with families and friends. It really helps reach the people who can directly assist us in reaching our goal faster.

My campaign has been vetted by @90-ghost , @northgazaupdates , @el-shab-hussein , and @nabulsi 's vetted list, line 205.

Thank you very much for standing by us ❤.

@timetravellingkitty @deathlonging @briarhips @mazzikah @mahoushojoe  

@sar-soor @rhubarbspring @schoolhater @pcktknife @transmutationisms @sawasawako  

@feluka @appsa @anneemay @commissions4aid-international @wellwaterhysteria

@mangocheesecakes @kyra45-helping-others @7bitter @tortiefrancis  

@ot3 @amygdalae @ankle-beez @communistchilchuck @dykesbat  

@aristotels @komsomolka @neptunerings @riding-with-the-wild-hunt @heritageposts

@watermotif @stuckinapril @mavigator @lacecap @determinate-negation

@deepspaceboytoy @paper-mario-wiki @kibumkim @neechees

@socalgal @chilewithcarnage @ghelgheli @sayruq

@himejoshikaeya @rooh-afza @shesnake

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tumblr just deleted a huge swathe of palestinians who were on here trying to fundraise. if you've been helping any of these fundraisers please take this time to 1) check in with palestinians you're in contact with 2) help them submit support requests if needed 3) keep these campaigns circulating while the beneficiaries are being silenced. these campaigns are life or death, this isn't just social networking. do not let these fundraisers languish.

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Dina ( @zinaanqar ) reached out to me to illustrate her family's campaign so it could reach more people. Please reblog and donate if you can.

Their gofundme is very close to its goal, so please share and donate!!!

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for @/avilloary on instagram! Collection of illustrated birds.

Mangrove Hummingbird

Mangrove hummingbirds are found only in Costa Rica, feeding mainly on the nectar of a single tree - the tea mangrove. This species is currently endangered due to habitat loss.

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an aarakocra character for a future dnd campaign

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i've caved yall... the way i am so normal about laezel and shadowheart (stay tuned....)

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Lae'zel joins the short hair crew