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Please, I beg you — if you're reading this, don’t look away. Every second matters.

Children in Gaza are wasting away before our eyes. Starvation is not a silent death — it screams through every rib, every bone showing beneath their skin. I am a mother, and my little boy Qais is one of them. He’s just a baby, too small to endure this kind of suffering. Your donation could mean the difference between life and death. Please, help us feed Qais and the countless children who have nothing left but pain.

This famine in Gaza is not a natural disaster — it is man-made, and it is killing our children.

1. The Israeli blockade has cut off access to food, clean water, and essential supplies, turning Gaza into an open-air prison where starvation spreads rapidly.

2. Deliberate obstruction of humanitarian aid prevents food and medical supplies from reaching those in desperate need — including children like my baby boy, Qais.

3. Destruction of farmland and infrastructure from relentless bombings has made it nearly impossible for families to grow or access food.

From the depths of a grieving mother’s heart, I beg you — don’t let Qais starve to death. He’s only a child, his only crime is being born in Gaza. His little body trembles in my arms as I watch him shrink before my eyes. Please don’t look away. Please don’t let him fade into silence like so many others. Every dollar, every share, every act of compassion could save him. I am pleading with everything I have — help me keep my son alive.

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If Qais was your only child, would you leave him to face his fate alone?

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As the man-made famine in the Gaza Strip worsens and access to food becomes increasingly difficult, we've decided to extend our support beyond agricultural inputs. We are currently working to connect grassroots initiatives with local farmers-allowing crops to be purchased well below the soaring market rates and directly distributed to those unable to buy or access them.

Read more about and donate to revive Gaza's farmlands, a project by APN that aims to rehabilitate the agricultural sector and restore local food systems to combat famine.

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🩸 We don’t need a silver weapon or a wooden stake…

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The Hind Rajab Foundation is using Israeli forces’ social media footage to support war crimes investigations. Al Jazeera’s Hind Touissate spoke to Dyab Abou Jahjah, the foundation’s founder, who says dozens of complaints have been filed in over 10 countries.

If you know of an IDF war criminal returning to or visiting your country, you can report them to the Hind Rajab Foundation.

Don't let IDF members feel safe anywhere! [video]

An article about the Hind Rajab Foundation from January 10, 2025:

Sense of impunity ‘absolute’: The NGO holding Israeli soldiers to account

The Hind Rajab Foundation is using Israeli soldiers’ own social media footage as evidence for war crimes investigations.

Israeli officials are concerned about their soldiers being arrested after fighting in Gaza after a soldier fled Brazil to avoid being questioned over alleged war crimes he committed in Gaza and filmed for social media.

The Belgium-based Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) is the force behind this international effort for accountability.

Formed just five months ago, HRF has pulled together lawyers and activists from around the world to prepare cases, primarily based on social media content shared by Israeli soldiers themselves.

Israeli reservist Yuval Vagdani was among the first of what HRF founder and Chair Dyab Abou Jahjah says will be many soldiers accused of war crimes.

Speaking to the Israeli media on Wednesday after being “forced” to cut his “dream trip” to Brazil short, Vagdani said finding himself subject to an overseas war crimes investigation after having filmed himself blowing up people’s homes in Gaza “felt a little like a bullet in the heart”.

According to local media, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs had played a critical role in helping Vagdani evade investigation and potential prosecution for war crimes, first arranging for him to be smuggled into Argentina, and from there to the United States, before eventually leaving for Israel.

Israeli authorities and media have issued guidelines to soldiers on evading arrest overseas and camouflaging their identities while on deployment.

No response has been received to Al Jazeera’s query as to whether these extra measures include training for reservists on what might constitute a war crime.

Providing the evidence against them

After 15 months of Israeli soldiers proudly sharing videos of themselves committing potential war crimes in Gaza, HRF had plenty of evidence to use when seeking their prosecution under international and domestic law.

The videos and stills show soldiers forcing Palestinian men to parade in their underwear, abusing captives, looting and vandalising homes and even dressing up in women’s clothing they ransacked.

“This is about being accountable to the law,” Abou Jahjah said. “If individual soldiers feel they haven’t committed a war crime, that’s fine. Let’s hear their case. It’s in the interests of everyone to do so.”

Hind Rajab is the name of a five-year-old girl who was killed in a car in Gaza by Israel as she pleaded on the phone for three hours for help, surrounded by members of her dead family and in sight of the Palestinian paramedics who were also killed as they attempted to reach her.

So far, the foundation named after her has filed more than 1,000 cases to the international court.

HRF lawyers and online activists trawl through mountains of images and videos submitted to them online to verify and geolocate each one, check its metadata and verify its chain of custody, from the soldier filming it through to HRF, Abou Jahjah explained.

Where the perpetrator is a dual national, HRF seeks prosecution under the second country’s existing laws on war crimes and in the case of sole Israeli citizens, collate legal files, which are then filed as evidence with the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Predictably, HRF’s work has been met with fierce criticism in Israel, with some claiming that these legal procedures are “doxxing” (the unauthorised publication of individual identities) of soldiers who filmed themselves.

Abou Jahjah has also been personally threatened by Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli, who – alluding to the attacks on Hezbollah’s members’ communication systems in September 2024 – told him to “watch your pager”.

“I don’t really care,” Abou Jahjah said, “I’ve been at this for many years and, when you compare it to what’s happening in Gaza, threats against me don’t really amount to much.”

HRF also maintains a catalogue of what it describes as the “perpetrators, accomplices and inciters” it is seeking investigations against for war crimes.

Impunity and persecution

“They’re proud of these acts,” Milena Ansari of Human Rights Watch said from Jerusalem of the potential war crimes broadcast by soldiers across social media.

“Putting it online both adds to the dehumanisation of Palestinians as well as provides cause for actual celebration,” she told Al Jazeera.

“The sense of impunity is absolute … It’s always been there, especially with regard to Israeli actions in the occupied West Bank, but it’s increased significantly since October 2023 [when Israel’s war on Gaza began].”

Many in Israel regard the cases against reservists as unjust and a continuation of centuries of anti-Semitism, feelings claimed and weaponised by the Israeli state, political scientist Ori Goldberg said from Tel Aviv.

“Things are deteriorating within Israel,” Goldberg said. “You can’t engage in a genocide for 15 months and expect anything else. Israel has been fundamentally changed.

“People don’t regard Palestinians as even human now, if they ever really did. To most people, Palestinians aren’t even vermin. Vermin has to be killed. Palestinians are less than that,” he said.

In that context, a few soldiers “letting off steam” during a war that none feels responsible for, where the only victims were Palestinian, was understandable to many within Israel, Goldberg said

“They’re spinning this as the world against Israel,” Goldberg said of the government and media response to the numerous investigations and prosecutions thought to be under way.

“It’s the persecution of the Jews, all over again,” he said.

“Most people don’t even feel that Gaza has anything to do with them,” Goldberg continued, “On the one hand, we continue to bomb it, on the other, we feel we’re unaccountable for what goes on there.”

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People who ask for permission to hug before doing it are the coolest people around. A+ people 👍

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still terribly short of its goal @neechees @afro-elf @komsomolka

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This is extremely disrespectful. The government wants to shred jewish religious texts (and other religious texts) held in the national library.

Like mentioned in the article, they could very well donate them if storage cost is a concern. Or at least consult on how to get rid of them respectfully as shredding them is not respectful.

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i think any time a politician so much as suggests creating a national public registry of a minority group they should lose their job immediately, and then be shot

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I honestly don't know how she does it, but Mona is still managing the production and distribution of food, bread, and is distributing necessities like water, diapers, and cooking ingredients to displaced people while she herself is displaced. Yes, during a famine. She couldn't have done it without your help from the last donation drive. Donating to these mutual aid funds of groups like Mona's is indispensable help and support right now. You're making a difference. Do not hesitate to donate, every dollar counts! Thank you all for your continued support. P*ypal, Chuffed, Instagram.

(If you live in India or Pakistan and want to donate, contact her through the means listed on her account).

GFM for Mona's family. GFM for Mona's sister and niece.

None of this is possible without Mona and her family's diligence and work. If you would like to send her a thank you note or well wishes, please include it in the replies to this post, in your tags, or in the comments! She always appreciates them ♡

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Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza:

Daily statistical report on the number of martyrs and injured due to the "israeli" aggression on the Gaza Strip

138 martyrs (including 3 martyrs whose bodies were recovered) and 771 injuries arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals during the past 24 hours.

A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, as ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them until now

The number of aid martyrs who arrived at hospitals during the past 24 hours reached 87 martyrs and 570 injuries, bringing the total number of livelihood martyrs who reached hospitals to 1,655 martyrs and over 11,800 injuries.

Gaza Strip hospitals recorded 5 new deaths due to famine and malnutrition during the past 24 hours, including one child and 7 adults.

Thus, the total number of famine and malnutrition victims rises to 193 martyrs, including 96 children.

Ministry of Health

August 6, 2025

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Exerps from an Al Jazeera report on starvation in Gaza.

Gaza’s Health Ministry Director-General Munir al-Bursh says the situation in the Gaza Strip is “getting worse day by day”.

He told Al Jazeera they had 95 patients with “acute flaccid paralysis”, a sudden weakness in the limbs, which was mainly affecting children.

“The sector has become a fertile area for the spread of diseases. We have 45 patients with Guillain-Barre syndrome [a rare illness that targets the nerves]. There are many cases of poisoning in the sector due to water and food contamination,” al-Bursh said.

What does starving to death feel like?

“It’s awful,” Dr James Smith, an emergency doctor who has volunteered twice in Gaza, said.In the early stages, after being deprived of food for days, the body begins to break down muscle and other tissues.

“It’s one of the most undignified and barbaric ways to kill. Starvation is always something that is done by one person to another. It’s intended to be protracted and to maximise suffering,” he said.

Soon, metabolism slows, the ability to regulate temperature is lost, kidney function becomes impaired and, critically in Gaza, the immune system begins to falter and the body’s ability to heal from injury is reduced.

Once the body’s reserves are used up, it loses the ability to channel nutrients to vital organs and tissues. As a result, essential organs like the heart and lungs become less effective. Muscles shrink and people feel weak.

Eventually, as the body’s protein stores are ravaged, the body’s tissues are broken down, with death not far away.

Who are the people who are most at risk of starving to death?

The old, the young, those already ill and, cruelly, those who are alone.

“A child will die earlier from starvation. The loss of muscle and fat occurs almost immediately. Equally, those in older age groups will also die quicker,” Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a Palestinian British surgeon who spent 43 days working in Gaza, said.

“However, it isn’t just age. There are social differences, too,” he continued.

“There are currently thousands of orphans roaming Gaza. There is no one to feed them or risk their lives to get food for them, so they’re also more likely to die,” he said.

How long does it take the human body to die of starvation?

While scientific research on the subject has been limited for ethical reasons, it’s estimated that a typically well-nourished and otherwise healthy adult could survive without food for between 45 and 61 days.

However, after 22 months of genocide, few people in Gaza could be described as well nourished or healthy, leaving them susceptible to malnutrition and the many infectious diseases prevalent in the enclave.

“With starvation, the body loses the ability to launch an immune response to diseases or injuries it could normally deal with, such as gastroenteritis, trauma or a respiratory infection, so it’s often malnutrition plus an infection that kills,” Dr Smith continued.

Who are the people who are dying of hunger in Gaza?

There is overwhelming evidence that, through the various blockades Israel has imposed on Gaza, the threat of death by starvation has spread from the vulnerable to everyone in Gaza.

In February 2024, five months into Israel’s war on Gaza, the World Health Organization estimated that one in six children under the age of two, especially in Gaza’s north – at the time under Israeli siege – were acutely malnourished.

As of August 2025, 82 adults have starved to death over the last five weeks.

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Please help my friend Mohammad in Gaza

I've been in contact with Mohammad al-Bardini the last few days, and he has been telling me how dire it is. All he wants is to be able to afford to eat food which he hasn't had in over 12 days. He is currently fundraising to afford flour so he and his wife can eat as well as afford milk and medicine for his baby daughter.

Donations are slowly climbing but it is not enough due to the fees that GoFundMe and Paypal take. If you've got some spare funds, please donate. Otherwise please reblog and share this as far and as wide as possible. Any amount helps. Thank you very much!

You can find his GFM fundraiser here.

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Been thinking about how sexual harassment is not an issue in many films if it's a joke and it's still a comedy family movie.. but it's an issue if it's spoken about seriously, suddenly it can't be a family movie anymore.

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To all Tumblr users, please pay close attention and read this carefully.You won't find this in the news how people in Gaza are managing to buy food while prices are extremely high. Let me explain:Some people who have donation campaigns try to withdraw money from the bank. But when they attempt to withdraw $1,000, they receive only about $400 because of a 60% fee, due to the shutdown of all banks in Gaza.But more importantly 80% of people in Gaza don’t have donation campaigns, and they have no work, because Gaza has been turned into rubble.

Among those affected is one of my own families my brother’s family, and my two sisters’ families.Please, donate here

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If you can eat and drink, sleep in a bed, read these words, and have a bank account—you have the power to help. Don’t stay silent. Do something for Gaza today.

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