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like idk maybe this is just me but i'd genuinely rather throw my loose change into something that could possibly be but is very unlikely to be a scam and just be like "oh well" if it does actually turn out to be a scam than try to denounce every single palaestinian that just wants to live in safety. tripling down on that behaviour is just fucking embarrassing. "it's not racist to be skeptical of donations asks" that's true but saying that a group of brown people are all hustlers running a mass scam ring is undoubtedly extremely racist you fucking clowns.

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Fortunately, I still remember my name!!

Hi everyone, this is my story in a few words.

Fortunately, I still remember my name: Rana. I can also remember graduating from the Faculty of English-Frensh Literature and then completing my master’s studies in education.

Being from northern Gaza means that I have lived through war, aggression, siege, massacre, pain, loss, torment, and also “death”, which life here forces you to look at with your own eyes.

As October approached, the catastrophic chapters of this story dramatically unfolded. It fills my heart with darkness every moment. I open my phone gallery and scroll up to that promising life where I no longer belong.

Pursuing my PhD education abroad with a good scholarship was always my goal which I believed would be achieved but due to the complete destruction of the city and continuing displacement from one place to another, I couldn’t register in any program and I lost the chance this year.

I was working and training in a company inside “Al Jammal Tower”, which is one of the largest towers housing software and languages companies in Gaza, where we were mixing commitment and fun, dreaming of a better future. But once our company became a target and was completely destroyed, my business was shattered as well as my dreams, leaving me heartless and soulless.

We are not numbers.

Remember, despite the difficulties I face in Gaza and the challenges I face with courage, I always realize that my story is a small part of the stories of 2.2 million people who face difficulties and struggle to survive in harsh conditions.

But there is a glimmer of hope amidst this darkness. With your support and generous donations, I can rebuild my life from the ashes and hit my goals. Every donation, no matter the size, will have a significant impact.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, for your unwavering support in this urgent matter.

🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉

@palestinegenocide @queerstudiesnatural @90-ghost @el-shab-hussein @northgazaupdates

@apollos-olives @riding-with-the-wild-hunt @vakarians-babe @90-ghost @fairuzfan

@sar-soor @fallahifag @humanvoicebox @plomegranate @queerstudiesnatural

@commissions4aid-international @international-network @nabulsi @soons-posts

@palestine @communistchilchuck @northgazaupdates2 @ghost-and-a-half @kyra45

@helping-others-seek-help @feluka @sayruq @plomegranate @commissions4aid-international

@soon-palestine @palestinegenocide @kyra45-helping-others

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O merciful heart, O lover of goodness and giving..

‏Hello, I am Oday from Gaza. I created a link to my gfm campaign to get me and my family out of Gaza. We live in very harsh living conditions. I contracted viral hepatitis as a result of malnutrition and there is no cure here. We die every day from the extreme heat of the tent, insects and scorpions. My sister is about to give birth to her first child. Our biggest fear is where will this child live in these circumstances? Help us bear the costs of leaving Gaza and the difficult costs of living and treatment.

‏I hope you will help us by donating or reposting. Make sure that every $5 can make a big difference in our lives

‏Your support and contributions are very important and appreciated, and I hope that you will continue to support us until we achieve the goal. Thank you from the bottom of my heart 🙏🏻

‏https://gofund.me/7fc8a826

‏This campaign was published and verified by@el-shab-hussein

€1417/€50,000

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🚨IF YOU IGNORE THIS, YOU ARE DOOMING MY FAMILY TO DEATH

These are skin diseases that have spread in the camp. My little brother, who is 4 years old, cannot sleep because of the severe pain. He is in severe pain and is alone. He has been isolated from all the children for fear of the spread of infection. Unfortunately, there are no medical points or care here. Please, I cannot bear to lose him after I lost many members of my family. Help me, my friends, by donating or sharing the link to help him travel for treatment.

@apol @appsa @buttercuparry @malcriada @palestinegenocide @orbleglorb @sar-soor @akajustmerry@annoyingloudmicrowavecultist @feluka @marnota @sayruq @tortiefrancis @flower-tea-fairies @tsaricides @riding-with-the-wild-hunt @visenyasdragon @belleandsaintsebastian @ear-motif@kordeliiius @communistchilchuck @brutaliakhoa @raelyn-dreams @troythecatfish @theropoda @tamarrud @4ft10tvlandfangirl @queerstudiesnatural @northgazaupdates2 @skatezophrenic @awetistic-things @baby-girl-aaron-dessner @nabulsi

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Please help Rawan, Yemna, and their family! They are still far from their goal of kr319,315 SEK (~$30,000) to evacuate from Gaza; they have currently raised kr97,184 SEK / kr319,315. However, with your help we can change that - every dollar counts no matter how little!!! Together, we can all help the Abudaya family!!

🌟 This campaign has been verified by a Palestinian-led collective - follow them @/palestineasdiqa on IG!!

Please donate and share widely!!!

This campaign is also a fundraiser where your donations can get you some free art from the talented group at Artists 4 Gaza!! Check out artaction4gaza.carrd.co for more info!

[template for the secondary graphic made by the amazing @starelegy_ ]

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palestinian fundraisers

(post made on 02/08/24, last updated 09/08/24)

these are the fundraisers from palestinians that have personally reached out to me recently - please be so kind as to share & donate if you are able:

Save Malak's Dreams and Family from Gaza || @malakabed || €4,771 / €25,000 raised || vetted here by @/90-ghost

Help Nour and his family escape from the war in Gaza || @noorabd1992 || $4,632 / $45,000 USD || vetted here by @roadimusprime

Help Gaza Family Evacuate to Safety || @mahmoud1995 || $7,085 / $50,000 USD || vetted here by @/90-ghost

Helping Ahmed's Family: Escaping War to a New Life || @ahmedabuyamin || €46,365 / €49,000 || vetted here, #264 on the Vetted Fundraiser List

Help Doaa Rebuild Her Sewing Business || @free-gaza2 || $3,629 / $5,000 USD || vetted here by @/90-ghost (on Doaa's old account, but fundraiser checks out)

Support Safaa's Quest To Get Her Family To Safety. || @safaamm || $5,645 / $75,000 USD || vetted here by @/90-ghost

Urgent Help Needed to Evacuate My Family from Gaza || @ahmed-mohammed1 || €2,513 / €30,000 || vetted here by @/90-ghost

Hope for Gaza: Support Ashraf's Family Rebuild Their Lives || @ashraf-family2 || €16,002 / €20,000 || vetted here by @/90-ghost (on Ashraf's old account, but fundraiser checks out)

04/08/24 update with new fundraisers:

Save Malak's Dreams and Family from Gaza || @malakabed ||€4,771 / €25,000 || vetted here by @/90-ghost

Help me and my family escape the war in Gaza || @asmaayyad || €3,662 / €45,000 goal || vetted here by @/90-ghost

Help Asmaa to continue school outside of gaza || @as-maa-56 || $1,776 / $50,000 USD || vetted here by @/northgazaupdates

Emergency: Help my family in Gaza || @stupendouswolfearthquake || 6,941 / 750,000 SEK || vetted here by @/90-ghost

Save Gaza: A Brighter Future for Aya and Her Family || @ayaalanqarsblog || €6,658 / €15,000 || vetted here by @/90-ghost

Support War-Affected Children's Future || @ahmadwaleeed || $5,193 / $10,000 USD || vetted here, #167 on the Vetted Fundraisers List

Urgent! building a new life for the family || @alaakh99 || €4,758 / €100,000 || vetted here by @/90-ghost

05/08/24:

Help us achieve a better future for our children || @aslambalousha || €19,302 / €52,000 || vetted here, #124 on the Vetted Fundraisers List

07/08/24:

Emergency: Help Evacuate My Family From GAZA WAR || @hayanahed || €63,826 / €100,000 || vetted by Operation Olive Branch, #26

Help my Uncel’s family , BE THE CHANGE || @abuyaserayyad80 || €14,000 / €35,000 || vetted here by @/90-ghost (on Mohammed's previous account, but fundraiser checks out)

09/08/24:

Help the Munna Tashmali Family Rebuild Their Home and Future || @monashamali || £9,131/ £30,000 || vetted here by @/nabulsi

Save Dr. Farhat's family from genocide in Gaza || @frhatfamily ||$2,382 / $29,500 USD || vetted here, #248 on the Vetted Fundraisers List

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somebody told me, the killers

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why does brushing your teeth before the dentist feel like trying and failing to cram before a test

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O merciful heart, O lover of goodness and giving..

‏Hello, I am Oday from Gaza. I created a link to my gfm campaign to get me and my family out of Gaza. We live in very harsh living conditions. I contracted viral hepatitis as a result of malnutrition and there is no cure here. We die every day from the extreme heat of the tent, insects and scorpions. My sister is about to give birth to her first child. Our biggest fear is where will this child live in these circumstances? Help us bear the costs of leaving Gaza and the difficult costs of living and treatment.

‏I hope you will help us by donating or reposting. Make sure that every $5 can make a big difference in our lives

‏Your support and contributions are very important and appreciated, and I hope that you will continue to support us until we achieve the goal. Thank you from the bottom of my heart 🙏🏻

‏https://gofund.me/7fc8a826

‏This campaign was published and verified by@el-shab-hussein

€1417/€50,000

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wait hold up why does the steven universe theme have the same chord progression as creep

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If you’re a disabled Minecraft player or just someone looking to roleplay a disabled character ingame, the Wheelchairs mod’s first full release version is worth looking into!

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I was just talking to Ahmed @90-ghost (alongside Av, who might be reading this, idk if they’d like to be part of this post tho). He has given me permission to write a post about our conversation.

This whole thing has gotten Ahmed to the point where he admits he’s started to hate tumblr after 12 years of being on here. He has over 3k messages in his inbox and can’t handle it right now, his brother and other family members are still in Gaza and he himself doesn’t have the money to help them out. I’ve noticed that donations have slowed among palestinian fundraisers in general, before this whole debacle that a few individuals on this site started. this is anecdotal, but I know Ahmed gets like $30-$50 per week in donations at this point, and that barely makes a dent in his and his family’s needs. Remember that people in Gaza need to pay massively inflated prices for what basic necessities are available right now. I think things are looking pretty dire to the people who would like to flee Gaza but don’t have the money. It already was dire that Egyptian government, working in lockstep with Israel and the west, charges $5k+ to Ghazzawis. Hala Agency, Ibrahim Al-Argani, and the other scumbags running the Egyptian state are all demons and they’ve lined their pockets throughout this genocide. But I digress—it was dire already and now the enthusiastic aid that helped people like Ahmed seems to have run dry.

All that is to say: Ahmed can’t continue to verify peoples’ documents or promote their fundraisers at this stage. He’s privately talked to hundreds of Ghazzawis and looked at their IDs, and he was the only person doing it for a while (a very small handful of other Palestinian users on here were doing it, but they’ve also gotten overwhelmed and stopped). When he was in Gaza, Ahmed was displaced multiple times, left sleeping in tents or on the streets while in active physical danger, starving, forced to drink unsafe water, and often sick. It’s not an exaggeration to say that his body and mind have been pushed to the limit. When he told me he’s depressed all day after doing this work while attracting a ton of negativity, I told him he’s allowed to stop for the sake of his own health, because frankly he needs to focus on his physical recovery. There’s nothing selfish about that, it’s not sustainable for him to be doing this, particularly not when he’s still under the immense stress of his brother and other relatives remaining in Gaza and relying on him for help.

Since I know people will ask: I currently don’t know of anyone on tumblr who still vets fundraisers. Everyone I know of who did has had to stop. I don’t know about the inner workings of Operation Olive Branch, but they seem to be one of a few collectives with enough members to distribute this work. It IS work, and those of us who have tried to do it have done so with a low failure rate (el-shab-hussein and nabulsi’s spreadsheet had over 200 entries and they misidentified a scam as legitimate ONCE). I hope everyone will be more considerate towards the people at collectives like OOB.

This has always been a matter of personal discretion. The vetting process some users tried to implement on here is meant to help people who want to help and accept the risk of offering aid to strangers. If you don’t trust bloggers who’ve been proudly Palestinian on this site for years, that’s up to you—genuinely, it’s fair to think “I don’t know this person and I don’t know what standards they’re operating on.” In the future, anyone who has such concerns should consider asking good-faith questions to the people involved and to converse with them like adults before jumping to accusations, conspiratorial posts, etc.

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From the zine “Fat Is Beautiful” by Crystal Hartman

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*eminem voice* *falls into a hole in a sewer grate before saying anything*

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Please stop and listen to our painful story and help me save the family 🇵🇸🇵🇸

Help me get my father and mother out and secure their lives

The story of my father and mother who suffered from illness and lived under the wall of a tent

“The tent was their only shelter. Its winter wall was made of threadbare fabric that did not protect them from the cold or summer heat. Inside, they were lying on a thin mattress, two defeated bodies suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure. They woke up every day to the sound of chronic pain and dreams. That relaxes with every breath.