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If you voted, please don't scroll without sharing this post. Mosab is raising funds for his wife and three daughters to escape Gaza before it is too late.

Even after months of trying, 75% of the goal is unmet. Lama, one of the 4 year old twins, is sick and in pain. She needs to be treated but the family cannot even afford basic food. Even if you cannot donate, sharing helps this reach people who can help.

Even the smallest support can be the difference between life and death.

Vetted by GazaVetters #520 and shared by @/90-ghost.

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Catastrophic hunger is sweeping across Gaza.

Over 2.2 million people are facing acute food insecurity, with nearly half a million experiencing famine-like conditions (IPC Phase 5). The latest IPC report warns that 93% of Gaza’s population is now in crisis or worse. Entire communities are starving.

71,000 children are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition. Mothers can’t feed their babies. As Kate Phillips-Barrasso from Mercy Corps put it:

“This catastrophe did not unfold in the dark; it happened in plain sight. Gaza’s food system has collapsed, humanitarian operations are paralyzed, and people are starving.”

Since March 25, Israel’s blockade has cut off all food and aid. Over 80% of farmland is gone or unreachable. Gaza is being pushed into famine — and the world is watching.

#stopthewarongaza

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Look, my friends, what we live through every night in Gaza.💔👇

We don't know where we should escape. The army has surrounded every place. We need your help to escape from this place. I hope you don't let us down. 🙏👇

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samah @ammar-family24 has been working hard to pay off all the money needed for a medical tent for ammar

this is a repost of my previous post because having photos of ammar made tumblr immediately flag it as mature content

it costs $5200 total - we were able to pay off the initial $3000 deposit, but not the $2200 afterwards

she was able to negotiate with the merchant into paying in installments - however, instead of $500 installments, he has demanded $800 installments, as well as we pay him the first installment immediately, which we have managed to do with help from a generous friend

with commission fees now 25%, this means we need $1000 every week 3 times - this is $1050 after ko-fi's fees as well

then we will need one last installment of $200 turned $500, which with commission fees will be $670 and then with ko-fi's fee of $34 will be $704

we tried to negotiate the installments to be every week, but he has demanded we pay him every five days

the doctor had advised that ammar needs special care even outside of the hospital to make sure he is in stable condition ammar has severely deteriorated from his heart condition not being seen to as well as conditions in gaza

this is why he also badly needs a medical tent, which will shelter him from the outside as it has a floor of its own and sturdier walls than most tents

samah’s original campaign and account are shared by 90-ghost, but it was shut down as her organiser’s bank account was deactivated

proof samah asked me to use my paypal / ko-fi account here

$15 / $1050

we also still need ammar's weekly medication, which helps to keep his condition stable and is required to maintain his health. even one day delay makes him incredibly ill

this costs $500, but unfortunately there are the 25% fees - in addition, the pharmacist has now requested she pay half her money in physical cash, so now 35% fees will need to be additionally added on to half of this amount

half of $500 is $250 - 35% fees makes it $588. 25% fees then make it $783. with ko-fi's 5% fees, this means we need to raise $822 for it

proof samah has agreed with using my friend's ko-fi here

$0 / $822

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Israel has launched violent attacks against the people of Gaza once again, with complete disregard for the supposed ceasefire they agreed to. The death counts keep rising and it's no secret that Israel not only kills Palestinian children, but specifically targets them. My friend Sahar @reallyoptimisticface was separated from her children before the current aggression started, and they have been living in Gaza without their parents for almost two years. She knows that they live in danger, and we both worry for them daily. The area they're currently in is an extremely dangerous zone and the lack of connection makes communication hard. Her older daughter Diana has been caring for her younger siblings, but she's suffered burns and wounds from being forced to cook over open flames.

As more news comes out and we see the extent of the Israeli violence, Sahar worries her children may be next. Please stand by her and support her so she can see her children again, bring them to safety, and be together as a family. No child should have to live through this. Your donations can give them some hope.

Read this post for her vetting info

Sahars campaign has been moving so slow, but her children can't wait on this money. If you are able please donate, it's the most effective way to help them.

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Look, my friends, what we live through every night in Gaza.💔👇

We don't know where we should escape. The army has surrounded every place. We need your help to escape from this place. I hope you don't let us down. 🙏👇

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I don’t get why people started forgetting about gaza and everything still happening there

Islam’s posts barely reach anyone now. No one reblogs like before. No one talks about him like before

his last post got almost no notes, and no donations

why did you forget gaza and its people and their pain it’s been over 500 days of genocide and Islam is living through the worst days of his life while the world moves on

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Please don't vote without sharing!

Right now, my friend Ibrahim Aburakhia @aburakhiaibrahim is suffering from an allergic reaction to chemicals in the bombs the IOF has been dropping on Ghazzah. His hands and arms are painfully swollen and irritated. The reaction has been causing Ibrahim a lot of pain, and keeps spreading through his body. Unfortunately, Ibrahim isn't even able to focus on getting treatment and recovering, as the situation him and his family are in is dire.

Prices for basic food and water in Ghazzah are extremely high. Ibrahim's family of 28 people are living on the brink of starvation, unable to get the food they need. Donations to their campaign have been slow, making it even harder for them to purchase food.

The Aburakhia family has a chance to escape the nightmare they are living through. They have been approved for family reunification to join relatives in Canada, who they have not gotten to see in years. However, before they can do so, they have to leave Ghazzah through the crossing and reach Egypt. Unfortunately, passing the crossing can cost up to $5,000 per person, and saving money is difficult when even a bag of flour can cost hundreds of dollars in Ghazzah.

$15,423 / $30,000 CAD

Even after raising funds for over a year, Ibrahim has only reached about half of his total goal. This isn't nearly enough for his family to survive right now, let alone evacuate and reach safety.

Ibrahim just wants for him and his family to survive. That should not be too big an ask. I ask you to share and donate. Please, support the Aburakhia family in whatever way you can!

Vetted here by @/gaza-evacuation-funds

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Share or donate to help a small family of 4 who has been displaced and displaced, losing their home, safety, and stability in an ongoing accelerated genocide.

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🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑

NO SUPPORT for a long time😔

We went back to the north, specifically, to Jabalia camp, where our house is there, but we are surprised that we do not have a house, it was completely erased💔🥹

……but as you can see, it was rendered uninhabitable by the IOF:😭😭

We still live on the street homeless #We are homeless💔 We still need you urgently and quickly,😭

to get food and medical care for our children,⚠️😭😞

and to try to repair our home for our children..And trying to rebuild our house to live in again🏡🙏😭😭

❌🛑❌

I want all of you to provide assistance with donation, posting, reblogging to restiart the donations.🙏😞

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Before the sunrise of Eid… I need a small miracle.

Tomorrow is Eid, and my daughter Rajaa dreams only of being happy in a new dress, just like she used to before the war.

This is the fourth Eid we’ve spent without clothes or sweets for my children...

I’m not asking for much — I just want to surprise her today with a dress, shoes, and a small bag before the morning of Eid.

If anyone can help, even with a little, please don’t delay her joy.

Time is critical: before Eid morning.

Donation link

✅️Vetted by @90-ghost and @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #245 )✅️

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Amal Ashour @amal-ashour-now2 and her family live in Ghazzah. Since their home in the north was destroyed by bombing, they have been displaced and living in a tent.

Amal has a daughter, Maryam. Maryam is still a toddler, only 2.5 years old. The war started when she was only a baby. She is now suffering from malnutrition, which poses a risk her health and growth.

Amal is also 4 months pregnant. She needs food, vitamins, and medical care to stay healthy during her pregnancy. Unfortunately, due to the blockade, she has not been able to access these things. She's instead been going without food to try and prevent Maryam from starving.

Money transfers stopped working for Amal's previous campaign. This has forced to make a new campaign starting from scratch so that she and her family may survive. She's barely received any support or donations so far, but you can change that. Please, share and donate! Your help makes all the different to the Ashour family.

Amal is #175 on the vetting list by nabulsi, el-shab-hussein, and Mohammed Ayesh (though the list links her previous campaign)

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I am Mahmoud Hamam. Most of those in this application have heard my name or know me because I frequently publish about my family in Gaza, but now I will explain to you completely who I am.

About Mahmoud: A 21-year-old engineering student from Gaza. I am ambitious and passionate. I love my education and my work. I have a beautiful, conservative, and friendly family.

I was working as a freelancer before October 7th, but with the war I lost my job and left my home heading to the southern Gaza Strip. I lived the worst months of my life searching for my life between transporting water, feeding my family and escaping death. I wasted two years of my life without a goal, just escaping death. I got my expenses and my family’s expenses from your donations, but now I am searching for my dream again in these circumstances.

I created the Isnad initiative, which aims to help students in Gaza who lost their dreams, just like me! Today I am proud to have helped more than 70 students complete their education!! But today! I work in the initiative for 6 hours a day, but I can't stand on my feet after 3 hours. Why? Because famine killed us in Gaza. I feel nauseous quickly and I can't complete my day unless I get the nutritional supplement designated for children!! Can you imagine that?

Famine has filled the sector and prices are very high. My campaign has $30,000. I have been collecting this amount for two years and only $5,000 is left to reach my goal. I am really exhausted and hungry. The only thing left for me is you guys. Please allocate $10 for me! To give up some sweets and cigarettes today in exchange for providing me with some bread, is that possible?

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This is the time to show your sympathy for Gaza. Famine is deadly.

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"In Northern California, a Native American tribe is celebrating the return of ancestral lands in one of the largest such transfers in the nation’s history.

Through a Dept. of the Interior initiative aiming to bring indigenous knowledge back into land management, 76 square miles east of the central stretch of the Klamath River has been returned to the Yurok tribe.

Sandwiched between the newly-freed Klamath and forested hillsides of evergreens, redwoods, and cottonwoods, Blue Creek is considered the crown jewel of these lands, though if it were a jewel it wouldn’t be blue, it would be a giant colorless diamond, such is the clarity of the water.

Pictured: Blue Creek

It’s the most important cold-water tributary of the Klamath River, and critical habitat for coho and Chinook salmon. Fished and hunted on since time immemorial by the Yurok and their ancestors, the land was taken from them during the gold rush before eventually being bought by timber companies.

Barry McCovey Jr., director of the Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department, remembers slipping past gates and dodging security along Blue Creek just to fish up a steelhead, one of three game fish that populate the river and need it to spawn.

Profiled along with the efforts of his tribe to secure the land for themselves and their posterity, he spoke to AP about the experience of seeing plans, made a decade ago, come to fruition, and returning to the creek on which he formerly trespassed as a land and fisheries manager.

“To go from when I was a kid and 20 years ago even, from being afraid to go out there to having it be back in tribal hands … is incredible,” he said.

Part of the agreement is that the Yurok Tribe would manage the land to a state of maximum health and resilience, and for that the tribe has big plans, including restoring native prairie, using fire to control understory growth, removing invasive species, restoring native fish habitat, and undoing decades of land-use changes from the logging industry in the form of culverts and logging roads.

“And maybe all that’s not going to be done in my lifetime,” said McCovey. “But that’s fine, because I’m not doing this for myself.”

The Yurok Tribe were recently at the center of the nation’s largest dam removal, a two decades-long campaign to remove a series of four hydroelectric dams along the Klamath River. Once the West Coast’s third-largest salmon run, the Klamath dams substantially reduced salmon activity.

Completed last September, the before and after photographs are stunning to witness. By late November, salmon had already returned far upriver to spawn, proving that instinctual information had remained intact even after a century of disconnect.

Pictured; Klamath River flows freely, after Copco-2 dam was removed in California

“Seeing salmon spawning above the former dams fills my heart,” said Joseph L. James, chairman of the Yurok Tribe, the leaders of the dam removal campaign along with the Karuk and Klamath tribes.

“Our salmon are coming home. Klamath Basin tribes fought for decades to make this day a reality because our future generations deserve to inherit a healthier river from the headwaters to the sea.”

Last March, GNN reported that the Yurok Tribe had also become the first of America’s tribal nations to co-manage land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding involving Redwoods National Park.

The nonprofit Save the Redwoods bought a piece of land adjacent to the park, which receives 1 million visitors annually and is a UNESCO Natural Heritage Site, and handed it over to the Yurok for stewardship.

The piece of land, which contained giant redwoods, recovered to such an extent that the NPS has incorporated it into the Redwoods trail network, and the two agencies will cooperate in ensuring mutual flourishing between two properties and one ecosystem.

Back at Blue Creek, AP reports that work has already begun clearing non-native conifer trees planted for lumber. The trunks will be used to create log jams in the creek for wildlife habitat.

Costing $56 million, the land was bought from the loggers by Western Rivers Conservancy, using a mixture of fundraising efforts including private capital, low interest loans, tax credits, public grants and carbon credit sales.

The sale was part of a movement called Land Back, which involves returning ownership of once-native lands of great importance to tribes for the sake of effective stewardship. [Note: This is a weirdly limited definition of Land Back. Land Back means RETURN STOLEN LAND, PERIOD.] Studies have shown around the tropics that indigenous-owned lands in protected areas have higher forest integrity and biodiversity than those owned by national governments.

Land Back has seen 4,700 square miles—equivalent to one and a half-times the size of Yellowstone National Park—returned to tribes through land buy-back agreements in 15 states." [Note: Since land buyback agreements aren't the only form of Land Back, the total is probably (hopefully) more than that.]

-via Good News Network, June 10, 2025

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It has often been said that "you should care about [group/issue x, y, or z] because they'll come for you next," and that can be an effective appeal.

But this is not solidarity.

Solidarity is being there for each other because we recognize the fragility and vulnerability in our shared humanity and the importance and validity of our diverse struggles. We all have needs sometimes, some more existential and urgent than others.

We find strength, comfort, love, and safety in each other. That is community. That is solidarity.

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Surgeon Elisabeth Potter films herself discussing her patient's denial with United Healthcare. this is the same surgeon who was sued by UHC for “defamation” back in February after she revealed that UHC interrupted her in the middle of an active surgery.

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Also, this could very much veer into antisemitism.

The US is just an asshole.