#to explain the Gaza thing

[yasminthespiritfaninnit]

Jesus…. On my birthday too.

Logan, go pay attention to your newborn daughter and wife! I hope that poor woman runs!

Also, Logan, Tommy was not “glazing.” He was networking like an actual professional. He was 17 at the time, you absolute buffoon.

this just keeps getting better and better

[milarepas]

Maduro saying he will build two maximum security prisons, to make them “reeducation, farming and work centers”

He's going to build concentration camps for people who oppose him. THEY ARE GOING TO KEEP KIDNAPING PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE HIM AND JUST SEND THEN THERE TO RE-EDUCATE THEM this is insane.

Chavistas are targeting people who were in the pacific protests, they are marking house by house all the people who participated or who think differently. How can people who are outside of Venezuela see this and do nothing, IT'S LITERALLY HITLER IN PERSON, HE'S MARKING HOUSES AND TAKING CHILDREN TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

A 13 year old girl was arrested for committing "terrorism" crimes A 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL.

Don't fall for the lies of non-Venezuelans trying to explain to you what's happening here, this is not about ideologies, IT'S A DICTATORSHIP THAT NEEDS TO LEAVE NOW.

Our real elected president is EDMUNDO GONZÁLEZ.

[sandcheeze13]

Hello👋 I hope you’re doing well. I’m reaching out with a heavy heart, seeking support for my family, who are struggling due to the war in Gaza. We are facing harsh conditions, and I’ve launched a GoFundMe campaign to provide safety and essentials. Every share or donation, no matter how small, makes a huge difference. Your support can turn our pain into hope. Could you please share my campaign post from my profile? It takes a moment but means the world to us. Thank you for your kindness.

hello. sorry for replying to you late. just been dealing with some stuff, however i'll try to help you whenever i can. i do apologize if im not able to donate currently, so i hope that this is alright for the time being. hopefully there's people that can help donate. i'm wishing you, and your family the best, and i hope that you all are safe currently.

if anyone is able to donate, please do so. regardless, please reblog this, so more people can help. thank you.

https://www.tumblr.com/fadigaza/775124304311582720/donate-to-save-my-family-from-the-war-nightmare-in

their campaign

€21,160 raised, €50K target, [42%]

[chaiaurchaandni]

saw someone on twitter, whose family is in gaza, say the same thing: her sister told her that israelis are executing palestinian men and boys aged over 16, abducting them, forcing them to strip. these are displaced civilians and survivors. some people are defending the forceful stripping by saying that the purpose is to ensure there's no bomber vest/weapons which is ridiculous bec if that was the purpose, why are they taking pictures like trophies and circulating them online? why do they even suspect civilian men and boys trying to find safety with their families to be wearing a bomber vest? israelis have been releasing videos of stripping and beating palestinians since oct 7 - many of the palestinians victimized this way have been from the west bank. palestinians held in israeli jails are also stripped and beaten in a way that is hauntingly reminiscent of american crimes in abu ghraib prison in iraq.

[wild-at-mind]

When you tell people they should be sending every spare penny to their chosen Gaza fundraiser or they are Bad. But then it all gets a bit too stressful so you have to leave tumblr. :(

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

me talking about what's happening when I first started to learn about it: well there's clearly a lot of layers to the conflict :((( I hope everyone makes it through okay

me talking about the genocide happening in palestine now: if you still say "BUT HAMAS-" I would like to personally invite you to swan dive into your nearest cement mixer

[atricksterproblem]

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[syn4k]

gods i wish i could participate in the strike for gaza today but this is the only full day we have in school this week and it's exams time. i already missed friday and i cannot do this again

[doofusschweetz]

First of all, I am not pro-terrorism, capitalism, or whatever ism okay?

Now, OceanGate is a pprivate company with their own assets and funds.

Gaza, is a war-filled land, and even if you have billions of dollars, lives are being put at risk. If they were to send everyone from the US army, it will be a threat to those with power in the gaza war. If someone were to send them level 500 help and assistance, it would be a risk to that good samaritan and the people who will be helping because they will be viewed as enemies.

If governments around the globe are going to send help, it would be a political affair, amd politics being politics, there will be inside men, spies, goons and whatever, or those who are in favour of the war because of the benefits(low stock market, monopoly of investment, assets, and consumables--where they can divert trade to wealthier clients and customers) which will make this plan impossible to be fail-proof.

[cow-stealin-gal]

To all Palestine supporters 🫂🤍🇵🇸🌧

We need less than 180€ to reach our short term goal of 28k€ which is 80% of the total goal‼️

Your donations are important to us and we appreciate them no matter what🙏

We need you more than ever😭

Please help me reach our goal as soon as possible 🙏

🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Followers and Mutuals!!

This family of five needs our help!

If you can, please donate!

Verified by el-shab-hussein, note: tipping gfm apparently doesn’t replace the processing fees.

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

I’m just so angry at politicians not doing their job to the point where other people who have no political experience are stepping up and doing what the politicians should be doing. Why is a chef doing more to provide aid to those in Gaza than any U.S. politician has? It just makes me so frustrated because the people who are supposed to be solving these problems are refusing to do so or are making things worse. I guess your humanity goes away when checks get flashed in front of your face.

[majoringinsarcasm]

Crying. About. Politics.

I try not to think too hard about anything otherwise I’ll lose my mind. And this is not a hopeless post. This is just me saying. I feel like. A lot of people are gonna vote for Trump. From your hardcore republicans to truly normal people who are like well Biden was bad we can survive Trump again. And I think about the policies and laws and regulations that have been Good that aren’t in the big news. And I think about how RIGHT NOW states are banning books and sex ed and queer people just living period. And I think about how if the state of things is this bad Now? What’s it gonna be like under a presidenr who Actively agrees with or will go along with this shit for votes.

“We survived Trump” says the people who are still here. “We can survive another four years” says the people who won’t be pushed to maybe not stick around for that long.

[ma7moudgaza2]

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?

Fundraiser || PayPal || Vetting 1 || Vetting 2

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

@g0at0ad @gothhabiba @feluka @raangmanch @slydiddledeedee

@wherethatoldtraingoes2 @kiirodora @tiredguyswag @corpsenurse

@virovac @sayruq @irhabiya @sar-soor

[exeggcute]

none of this is new info, but you know I have the "loves to write lists and compile links" disposition, so I thought it might be helpful to share some of the tips I've seen about how to make sure you're sharing legitimate palestinian evacuation fundraisers and bundle all those tips into a single handy reference post.

this is a spreadsheet of legitimate ("vetted") fundraisers on tumblr.

this post explains how the people who maintain this spreadsheet confirm the legitimacy of each fundraiser they add.

this podcast episode ("yousef and the fourth move") explains why evacuation fundraisers are often organized by people who don't live in gaza and/or who may not be immediate relatives of the people trying to evacuate. it's part three of a series about a man named yousef and his family; parts one and two aren't required listening for part three to make sense, but if you have a few hours to spare then I wholeheartedly recommend listening to all of them.

this is the process that I personally have been using to check whether a particular fundraiser has been vetted:

spreadsheet method

open the vetted fundraisers spreadsheet.

inside this spreadsheet, open the "find..." menu. on a windows computer, this shortcut is ctrl+F. on a mac, this shortcut is cmd+F. on a mobile device, click the three dots menu in the upper right corner of your screen, then select Find and replace.

search for the last name of the person or family in the fundraiser. you may get several results because last names obviously aren't unique; keep hitting "next" until you've looked at all the results.

if you find an entry in the spreadsheet that has the exact same name and whose gofundme link leads to the same fundraiser associated with the blog, it's legitimate. if you don't find an entry in the spreadsheet that matches the blog's fundraiser, that does not mean it's a scam. try the next method below!

tumblr search method

copy the username of the tumblr who originally posted the fundraiser and/or sent you a message asking you to boost the fundraiser. (for example, username123)

paste this username into tumblr's search bar.

for best results, click the All types drop-down menu, then select Text. since the search page is often dominated by asks sent by username123 (which people then answer and tag with their username), this helps narrow things down a bit.

look to see if any people who are not username123 have made posts confirming that username123 is legitimate. this includes people who've reblogged fundraisers and added notes, people who've compiled masterlists, and people sharing hyperlinks to other posts confirming a fundraiser's legitimacy. if the message seems to be "yep, looks legit," then it's safe to assume it's legit.

this is not a comprehensive list, but here are some of the usernames I've seen associated with "yep, looks legit"-type posts and who I've come to trust by association. (disclaimers: I am not mutuals with any of the users, and not all of them do the vetting firsthand, but the ones who don't vet posts themselves still seem to be careful about what they share and therefore are a good lead to follow. also, don't bug these people to vet fundraisers for you unless they've specifically indicated that they're open to that.)

90-ghost

el-shab-hussein

nabulsi

appsa

northgazaupdates

retvolution

communistchilchuck

neptunerings

a-shade-of-blue

shimamitsu

neither of these methods yielded anything definitive; what now?

it may just be too early to tell. unless a trusted source has shared overwhelming evidence that a particular fundraiser is a scam (which seems to be a very very rare occurrence), the best thing you can do is ignore it. don't report their blog as spam, because there's a good chance it's a legitimate fundraiser who just hasn't been vetted yet.

[sayruq]

After a year of committing genocide in Gaza, more and more Israeli soldiers are quietly refusing orders to return to the strip to fight, saying they are depressed, worn out, psychologically damaged, and unmotivated, according to a report by Ha-Makom magazine published on 20 October. The ultra-Orthodox-oriented magazine interviewed multiple soldiers and parents of soldiers who refuse to return to Gaza. When a platoon of 30 soldiers of the Nahal Brigade was recently ordered to enter Gaza for the latest of several tours, only six reported for duty. “I call it refusal and rebellion,” says Inbal, the mother of one of the soldiers in the platoon.“ They return to the same buildings that they cleaned, each time trapping them anew. They have been to Al-Zaytoun neighborhood three times already. They understand that it is futile and pointless.” Although they had only a fifth of their personnel, the commander still insisted they enter Gaza. “Because they were a small team, they couldn't go out on missions. They just stayed there and waited for the time to pass. It was even more unnecessary.” In addition to battling Hamas fighters, Israeli soldiers have been demolishing residential buildings with explosives, sniping children, shelling hospitals and schools housing displaced people, and destroying Gaza's water and electrical infrastructure. One parent of a soldier in Nahal said that according to her son, “The wards are empty. Everyone who is not dead or injured is mentally damaged. There are very few left who returned to fight. And they're not quite right either.”

According to those interviewed by Ha-Makom, there is no movement among the soldiers to refuse to serve. Instead, one goes quietly to his commander and says he is unable to fight. He is then removed and placed in a non-combat position elsewhere. “Things are resolved within the unit. It happens all the time. There is an incessant covert drop from fighting,” one parent explained.

Soldiers feel demoralized having to return to places in Gaza where they fought months ago and supposedly defeated Hamas. “When the return to the places we were in, such as Jabalia, Al-Zaytoun, and Shujaiya, began, it broke the soldiers,” a parent named Eidit explains.

Ha-Makom added, “After 12 consecutive months of a war that goes nowhere, the soldiers are ‘black.’ In military slang, this means that they are depressed, worn out and unmotivated.”

[mayrine]

The Artists for Palestine project does not have an end date

Its going based on artists willingness to participate alone!!

If you are an artist and want to help Palestine and this project you should message @/sitcomabed (https://x.com/sitcomabed?s=20) over on twitter and join the other artists in creating art and generation donations!!

You need to have a twitter account cause Zayna (the person that started this project) doesn't have a tumblr so you can only message her on twitter

here is the link to the original twitter thread where they explain how you can get your commission (https://x.com/sitcomabed/status/1755711698298716487?s=20)

also if you arent an artists you should still go and donate!!!

edit: i've been told that the link to the thread doesn't work for everyone so here are screenshots of the entire thread, the links shown in the screenshots are at the bottom

Care for Gaza: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/UsmanaliF Pious projects: https://x.com/PiousProjects/status/1751164159658541234?s=20 Donate to Zayna, the person that made the thread and that started this project: https://ko-fi.com/sitcomabed Google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RStk1YXfg4KJ8X4sO6_DxDIpDlHZIsyZhPAyiCBK6VQ/viewform?edit_requested=true

Thread of the artists that are participating in this project: https://x.com/sitcomabed/status/1756036418869006388?s=20

Also if you want to donate to a different charity/project then the ones mentioned in the tweet, you can!! I asked Zayna and she said its fine as long as you put that down in your description.

If there are any other problems with the links please @ me in a reblog or leave a comment and i'll try to fiz things