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Beginning Friday the 11th, RTVS will be holding another 3-day weekend fundraising event for the people of Palestine.

It is a tragedy that Palestine is still enduring the same nightmarish conditions that they were this time last year. There has been little to no improvement in things as Israel continues to break ceasefires and block incoming aid as they try and continue their genocide. We would like to once again rally our community and as many others as we can reach to give what support we are able to to Palestine's people.

Like last year, the event will not be a traditional stream fundraiser, rather than pointing people at one donation point, we will be suggesting a number of different recipients for support. However, this year may be organized slightly differently than the way we did it last time; more information regarding that will be shared in the next few days once we confirm our plan. Overall, it's the same idea: all donations to Palestinians and aid groups will be tallied into our grand total for the event.

The all-day, all-weekend streaming event will once again feature a rotation of hosts from Radio TV Solutions putting on all kinds of events. Themed segments, classic segments, crazy gameshow-type beats, chill segments, gaming w/ Da Whole Crew and MORE await you. The event will be hosted at http://stream.rtvsfundraiser.live/. Mark your calendars, tell your friends, and GET READY!

Rami Kashou, a Palestinian designer (originally made famous on Project Runway) has an ongoing deal on his website right now, where 100% of the proceeds on certain items will go to HEAL Palestine!

However, I thought I’d share some art drives for Palestine that I’ve seen, all of which have artists I trust involved! I’ve donated to some of these myself and highly recommend giving if you can.

E-Sims for Gaza by @cartoonistcoop

donate an e-Sim via eSims for Gaza and receive an art commission from a cartoonist of your choice. (I received Inumaki Toge and Araluna by the esteemed pichikui earlier this year!)

Art Action for Gaza

donate a minimum of 5 USD and receive a commission from an artist on their roster! (The organizers of this drive personally reached out to me a bit earlier in support of my Chibi drive; they're a very sweet and dedicated team, and I have many friends on their roster!)

Doodles for Donations by Pals4Pal

donate 10 euros to the highlighted GFM and receive a drawing from an artist of your choice on their weekly roster. (Just this week, I sent a kittyuri request for my dear friend krispydraws!)

Yet, it is also a year since the Palestinian resistance definitively proved to the world that israel is not only not the all-knowing state entity many believed nor that they were invincible or undefeatable. Over the course of the year, the resistance and its allies in Lebanon and Yemen have handed out defeats to not just israel but the west lead by the united states as well proving that those institutions and militaries are not invincible.

In israel itself, tens of thousands of bsuinesses are closing or have closed; its ports are under blockade; the settlers are fighting amongst themselves or leaving; it is a settler colony beginning to buckle under the simultaneousforces of its internal contradictions and of the Palestinian resistance. No doubt the struggle for liberation and against settler colonialism will continue until all the contradictions are resolved just as it were it rhodesia and south africa.

1: @supportpalestine-1 ----- GFM - 20/2000€ - 1%

2: @salman-1990 ----- GFM - 2,794/50,000€

3: @noorplog12 ----- Chuffed - 154/101,000$ - 0.2%

4: @mohamedalanqerr ----- GFM - 60,520/70,000€

5: @nisreensuhail ----- GFM - 11,334/50,000€

6: @dina179 ----- GFM --- 14,075/50,000CAD$

7: @ahmedhelllis ---- GFM - 19,792/80,000€

I forget exactly where I saw the initial post asking for volunteers, but on July 10th, I reached out to the listed email. Jane, the organizer, got back to me right away and within an hour I was added in their discord.

Up until this point, I had been maintaining an average 8 ESims myself, so I already had experience checking in on them on a daily basis. The folks there helped me onboard with the spreadsheets for keeping track, and now it's very easy for me to catalog new ones I buy and record daily data usage. The whole process takes me maybe 20-40 minutes a day depending now on how many ESims actually need to be topped off.

Jane has been very up front with lots of the group's information, with frequent announcements about the groups current funds and amounts of daily ESims sent out. She and the others have been super helpful with getting funds to us when needed, and I've almost never had to actually spend any of my own money for any of this.

In the time that I've been volunteering, they figured out how to run a Business account with the Nomad ESim company. Which means that now and then they can just send 15 or so ESims my way, and I just catalog them and send the QRcodes towards Mirna and the Connecting Gaza folks. No more wasting time with the purchasing process, while getting a bit of a bulk discount on top of that.

We also share updates on whatever brand of ESims are most needed. When folks on the ground tell us that one network doesn't seem reliable, we are able to switch over for a while until either the networking issue is fixed, or we all pressure customer service enough to replace them for us.

There's also lots of complaining about new UI updates an general website bugs. There's surprisingly a lot of them and it's good to know other folks are getting info from customer service when things go wrong.

In August they made a meme channel

Anyways....

Lets get into some stats for myself. In 2 months (July 10- Sept12) I have:

Send off 171 ESims

Maintained around 60 active ones

Topped up these active ESims 139 times

Spend over $6400 donated dollars

I have multiple power users who have burned through close to 100GB. 2 of them have broken 200GB. These are most likely being used as hot spots.

Why am I sharing all of this? Mostly to show how easy it has been to make a marginal difference. I have helped at least 60 people stay connected with the outside world in just 2 months. Probably more if we assume some of the power users becoming hotspots for other folks. This is 20-40 minutes of my time a day, and I honestly regret not signing up to do this sooner.

I was specifically limiting myself to this workload because I wanted to test the waters. Those stats was me specifically not wanting to push myself and see what impact a normal person could make with 20 minutes a day. At this point I think I will be taking more advantage of Nomad's Tuesday discounts to really bulk up my numbers. It's pretty easy to buy 15 or so every Tuesday, and then send em over.

If you would like to join us in this endeavor, please reach out to Jane at cripsforesimsforgaza(at)gmail

We are specifically looking for people in European time zones, since a lot of us are in the Americas and that's quite a difference between us and Gaza. If not, that's no problem!

If you can't participate, that's totally fine, but please donate what you can! Folks like you are the ones who keep us going!

I am Mahmoud Al Sharif, married and have 3 children. My wife gave birth to a newborn baby on August ,12 ,2024.

‎‏We are from the Gaza Strip, which suffers from wars. I lived through 5 of these wars, and I lost my eyes and fingers hand , and my other eye was damaged. These were the previous wars until this 2023 war came and destroyed everything from my home and my workplace.

Please, can you see my story and judge if it is important or not🙏. My family faces unimaginable ‎‏challenges living in Gaza. We are seeking your support to help us find a safe and hopeful future outside this conflict zon💔

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hello! we are CREATIVES FOR PALESTINE, a collection of artists raising money for palestine relief in exchange for art!

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This is a list dedicated to compiling people I have direct contact with in Ghazzah & Sudan. All of these fundraisers have been personally verified from start to finish by me. You are free to share these with anyone you know. This is part of the following masterpost series. Feel free to consult all other links in the main navigation masterpost.

The ground invasions of Rafah and El Fashir worsen everyday. Please understand the urgency of this campaign.

Version date: June 8th 2024.

Fadi & Shahed: 5,885 USD out of 62.5k

Sana'a & Sujood: 15,049 £ out of 50k

Mahmoud Qassas: 12,466$ out of 200k

Ezzideen Shehab: 11,075€ out of 32.5k.

Hussam Aburamadan: 17,657€ out of 148k.

Hamdi Hijazi: COMPLETE.

Suheir Hojok: 17,557 AUD out of 70k.

Madleen Abu Jayyab: 33,808$ out of 70k.

Hani Al-Hajjar: 2,536€ out of 50k.

Little Yusuf: 664€ out of 85k.

Nael Helles: 255$ out of 50k.

Alia's family: 516€ out of 30k.

Hala's family: 350 CAD out of 50k.

Mohammed Al Shaer: 150£ out of 50k

Mona Abu Hamda: COMPLETE. All further donations will help them in their new life in Egypt.

Sahar El Tibi: 15€ out of 30k.

Youssef Munir: 596£ out of 50k.

Muhammad Munir: 1,528£ out of 45k.

Amal & Ruba A.S.: 0€ out of 50k.

Awad's family: 10€ out of 25k.

Mahmoud Al Tibi: 1,512€ out of 60k.

Abdullah Haniyah: 175 USD out of 47k.

Alaa Jawad: 47$ out of 15k.

Ghada Banaat: 360€ out of 50k.

Fadia's family: 30 CAD out of 100k.

Eman Abdulrahman: 16,125$ out of 43k.

Mohammed's family: 0€ out of 30k.

Fatma Abughali: 85€ out of 27k.

Fahed Shehab: 0€ out of 50k.

Alaa Al Khateeb: 807£ out of 6k.

Mohammed Bardaweel: 50€ out of 37k.

Ahmad Shaaban: 0£ out of 40k.

Mohammad's family: 3.2k$ out of 14k.

Rana Abu Ghaben: 505$ out of 100k.

Ahmed Al Ostaz: 70€ out of 70k.

Tahani Shorbaje: 1,269$ out of 50k.

Omar's family: 45€ out of 20k.

Renad Majed Salim: 595£ out of 25k.

Ahmed Al Zaeem: 272$ out of 50k.

Hamza Hilles: 161€ out of 30k.

Bilaal Salah: 4,068€ out of 70k.

Mohamed Rafiq Abdo: 4,085$ out of 100k (22.5k needed for evacuation)

Amjad Almoghrabi: 225€ out of 25k.

Nadaa's family: 0$ out of 15k.

Mahmoud Balousha: 1,758€ out of 50k.

Amjad Sido: 80€ out of 30k.

Marah Salim: 735€ out of 55k.

Fatin Abu Hamda: 95$ out of 18k.

Sulaiman Thaher: 15$ out of 27.5k.

Anonymous individual (CW: photo of a child with blood on face if you scroll all the way down): 25$ out of 50k.

Sharif family: 4k$ out of 150k.

Shymaa's family: 1.6k$ out of 50k.

Mahmoud Mousa: 121€ out of 10k.

Nedal's family: 10€ out of 33k.

Fadi Ayyad: 360$ out of 35k.

Mohamed Hamad: 1,985£ out of 50k.

Tahseen Tawfiq: 3,056€ out of 60k.

Ahmed Shaaban: 2,419€ out of 20k.

Basel Abu Ghaben: 0$ out of 105k.

Mahmoud Hamam: 2,742$ out of 10k.

Iman Eyad: 376£ out of 60k.

Maysara Shaqura: 28,491€ out of 45k. (Evacuated but needs treatment NOW)

Mahmoud Khalaf: 260€ out of 30k.

Bassam Shaqqoura: 80€ out of 35k.

Nasser Shoshaa: 0€ out of 30k.

Rania 'Ibra': 0£ out of 35k.

Sujoud's children: 0 out of 45k $.

Asmaa Bahloul (CW: photo of a shaheed, killed by the occupation): 0 out of 20k €.

Abeer Ibrahim (CW: photo of a shaheed): 350$ out of 70k.

Ahmed Abu Ghaly: 1,495€ out of 40k.

Dina Maliha: 6,247€ out of 32k.

Ahmed Abu Shammala: 0€ out of 100k.

Islam Dahleez: 3,209$ out of 20k.

Maha Ibrahim: 78$ out of 100.7k.

Tawfik Waleef: 11,835$ out of 40k.

Elaf Babiker: 15,112$ out of 17k.

GET URSELF SOME COMICS! HELP OUT SOME PALESTINIAN FAMILIES!

Help a Palestinian family directly:

gazafunds.com - Donate directly to a Palestinian family in urgent need of evacuation, medical attention, food, rebuilding homes/businesses etc. (Spotlights 1 verified gfm at a time so if you don't know who/where to donate to just go here and donate to the one they show you!)

Help provide tents (urgent):

The Sameer Project: Currently providing tents for displaced families in Gaza (emergency bc tents in Rafah are being burned as we speak) (paypal) (gfm)

Food, cash & essentials:

Care for Gaza: Working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash, medicine & other essentials to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Direct Aid for Gaza: also working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash & other daily essential suppliess to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Water:

Gaza Municipality's water project: The official Municipality of Gaza needs help rebuilding the water infrastructure in Gaza City to restore access to clean water and waste management services for the people of Gaza. (This campaign only has a couple of weeks left but it's still only at 15%!)

eSIMs (urgent):

guide to buy & send esims for gaza

crips for esims for gaza: If you don't know how to buy esims or don't have the capacity to manage them (e.g. topping up regularly), this team of volunteers are collecting funds to buy & manage gaza esims regularly

Medical Aid