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My daughter Rajaa is a radiant beam of sunshine, bringing boundless joy, warmth, and love to everyone she meets.

On a dark night at the beginning of the war, our area was subjected to massive bombing. The explosions reached our home, forcing us to flee into the night, running amidst periodic explosions and searching for survival. We made our way to southern Gaza by morning, seeking refuge in Rafah.

This is our home, filled with our memories and moments of joy and happiness, now reduced to rubble. Its destruction shattered our hearts.

In Rafah, we found shelter in a crowded warehouse filled with strangers, all of us struggling to find basic necessities like food, water, safety, and cleanliness. Despite these challenges, we were again hit by direct bombardment. My husband was injured in the shoulder, and the scene around us was filled with blood and corpses. The cries of my children in those moments still echo in my head.

A fragment of what it once was, and now, what it has become.

We moved several times to places described as safe, only to face new tragedies. During this period, my precious daughter Raja contracted hepatitis, adding to our suffering.

It was incredibly difficult for me to endure these disasters, especially as I was in the process of giving birth. Youssef was deprived of proper breastfeeding and the necessary nutrition for his age. Hussein's right to education and a safe childhood have been cruelly taken from him.

My baby Youssef, whom I clung to throughout the war, running with him through the rubble of shattered homes to escape.

At an age when Hussein should have been enjoying his childhood, all his rights were taken away from him.

Our situation is dire, and we need your support to rebuild our lives and provide a future for our children. Your kindness and generosity can make a profound difference. Your contributions will help us secure safe shelter, access to medical care, and the basic necessities of life.

Please, consider helping us during this critical time. Every donation, no matter the size, brings us one step closer to safety, stability, and a chance to rebuild our lives.

I hesitated a great deal to talk about my predicament in Germany but my friends encouraged me to. I truly didn't want anyone to think I was taking advantage of their generosity. I have always relied on myself even during hard times but these are desperate times I never imagined living through before. I was raised to be responsible at a very young age and be resilient whatever the situation I'm in. Since Life has never been easy in Gaza even before the genocide, that's how it had to be, but I also grew up in a home and a community where love and family are everything and it is my family's very survival that is at stake right now.

You have all been more than generous and helped us raise 85,227 € as of now and I am beyond grateful for that but we still need you. Unfortunately, I only have 5 days left to raise what remains of my goal. I fear it will be impossible for me to promote this campaign, support and save my family when the time comes, if I'm considered stateless and deported.

Moreover, even though my job was exhausting, I tried so hard to keep it because I really needed it to provide for my family. However, try as I might, I failed to reach an agreement with the company, ended unemployed and lost the apartment I was renting, too. I am also unable to get a new job at the moment because of all the legal and bureaucratic procedures I need to go through first. As a result, My family, unable to evacuate due to the border still seized by Israel, have been depending solely on donation money to pay for their ever rising daily expenses and frequent displacements. That's why, I was forced to raise my previous target of 1 70,000€ to 100,000 €. I truly had no choice.

I would also like everyone to know that I am used to hardship and I am not one to surrender easily. I am trying my best to beat the odds and win this fight but I am not asking for help for myself. I don't care what happens to me as long as my family, especially our children and newborns, are able to receive any help they can get until they're able to hopefully evacuate. Please don't give up on them! They need you now more than you can imagine! It's only God's mercy and your support that have been getting them through this nightmare!

Donate if you can, reblog and share anywhere you have reach on your social media platforms. Any contribution counts and means the world to us. I truly believe we can make it and achieve our new goal thanks to your unwavering support and boundless generosity. I can never thank everyone enough!

€85,227 raised of €100,000 goal

Guys reminder that bilal has to raise the rest of the 15k by AUGUST 15TH, this is really urgent please do not let this fundraiser slow down 🙏

shakespeare: the narrative foils duel to the death at the end of the play

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from Rien ne va plus

‘The injury happened close to me. I kept playing at first because I didn’t think it was that serious,’ said Morena, whose Brazil side ended up beating Angola 30-19.

‘Albertina is a friend of mine for many years. We both play in Romania. There was no way I couldn’t help her, because I knew it would be very difficult for her to leave the court.’

Brazil’s Tamires Morena and Angola captain Albertina Kassoma play in the same league in Romania

‘I have a special affection for her. I respect her work a lot.’

Asked what was said in their brief exchange after the gesture, Morena said: ‘She said, ‘thank you very much, my friend. Only you could lift me up. I was very hurt’.

ok so what happened is as follows:

in 2023 the IBA disqualified 2 boxers, Imane Khelif (Algerian) and Lin Yu-Ting (Taiwanese) on the grounds that they had failed 'gender eligibility testing'.

the Olympics Committee has (I think?) recently broken ties with the IBA citing various ethical concerns so both athletes were re-evaluated and allowed to compete

the current controversy is mostly focusing on Imane Khelif bcos she basically one-shotted another boxer but people, including JK Rowling, are also saying that Lin Yu-Ting shouldn't be allowed to compete

but yes people are now arguing that the only thing that matters for 'biological sex' is your chromosomes even tho literally no biologist in the world would agree with them.

& to avoid reblogging this over & over:

@phoenixcatch7 #Woman who punches people in the face for sport gets punched in the face during said sport#Apparently she's okay though which is good. Do we know anything about her opinion on this or?#My dad was telling me about this before and he showed me a pic like look how tall unfair genetic advantage#And I was like dad. The cis woman is also taller than the male referee in that picture. Cis woman with that height? No one cares#'oh the boxer transitioned because they kept losing in the men's team' I cannot begin to explain how stupid that is NO ONE DOES THAT

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