no daylight.

care international appeal for lebanon

equipment for first responders in lebanon

help children in both gaza and lebanon

anera emergency appeal for lebanon

@anqer - From War to Education: Abdelrahman Resilient Journey

@fatma93gaza - Support Fatima's Family in Gaza After Heartbreaking Tragedy

@emanfamily - Donate to help my family live in peace

@basel-1995 - Help me evacuate my family and rebuild a new start

@ayaalanqarsblog - Save Gaza: A Brighter Future for Aya and Her Family

@bshaeromars-blog - Help my family escape Gaza

@ahmedabuyamin - Helping Ahmed's Family: Escaping War to a New Life

@freepaleatine95 - Please Save What's Left of My Family

@ezzaldeens-blog - Rebuilding Hope: Help Ezzedine Escape the War

@lina-gaza - Support Family escape from rafah to safe place

@nedaapalestine - Help us and my elderly parents to get out of the war

Below are a list of fundraisers that I have been sent. All of these have been vetted by either @/90-ghost, @/el-shab-hussein or @/nabulsi. If you see this, please help in anyway you can and if you can't assist financially, please reblog this post.

Dated: 4th August 2024

rehamyasirr: GFM ($565 raised of $40,000)

wafaaresh: GFM (€11,749 raised of €100,000)

omarhilles2022: GFM (€8,829 raised of €23,000)

musababed: GFM (€2,344 raised of €10,000)

elbalawi: GFM (€30,313 raised of €50,000)

mohammedalanqer: GFM (€49,053 raised of €58,000)

mahmoudkhalafff: GFM (€17,570 raised of €30,000)

bisanalbalawi18: GFM (€30,533 raised of €50,000)

hadeelmekki: GFM (€10,047 raised of €35,000)

aymanayyad82: GFM ($30,492 USD raised of $35,000)

ahmed-mohammed1: GFM (€2,088 raised of €30,000)

abdelmutei: GFM (€4,945 raised of €50,000)

emanfamily: GFM (€3,637 raised of €38,000)

ahmed-ziad: GFM (£8,225 raised of £30,000)

salem-baker: GFM (€2,149 raised of €38,000)

lenarafat15: GFM (€3,270 raised of €30,000)

yahyaahmed5: GFM ($645 USD raised of $50,000)

musababd: GFM (€2,349 raised of €10,000)

abedalazeiz: GFM (€18,685 raised of €50,000)

amlanqar: GFM (€4,868 raised of €50,000)

kareemyounes10: GFM (€4,727 raised of €80,000)

hamouda-az: GFM (kr10,701 SEK raised of kr200,000)

ranin3344: GFM (€4,237 raised of €80,000)

helpfamily: GFM ($2,953 USD raised of $60,000)

girlquee: GFM (£7,294 raised of £20,000)

saveyouseffamily: GFM (£7,294 raised of £20,000)

aya2mohammed: GFM (€19,161 raised of €50,000)

mohamed-mikki: PP ($451 raised of $20,000)

ashraf-family2: GFM (€14,920 raised of €20,000)

as-maa-56: GFM ($1,186 USD raised of $50,000)

fatma93-gaza: GFM (€2,094 raised of €20,000)

heba-baker: GFM (€745 raised of €60,000)

serious question, has any of this mattered? did anyone actually get out because of a fundraiser? have we been doing anything at all other than laundering money for corrupt border guards? is this a better use of donations than, say, the esims? or donating to aid orgs? or any other way of trying to help?

"and i know the gofundmes here can be overwhelming"

here's the thing. fuck being overwhelming, fuck getting exhausted seeing the fundraisers every day, none of that matters. my only question is, have people actually been benefiting from it? not in a "I think someone is impersonating people and scamming us" way (I trust the verification work people have been doing), but in a "is this actually going somewhere" way. if every single "$5000 x number of people" fundraiser got filled up to the maximum, would it make a single bit of difference?

most of the families that made it to egypt before the border was destroyed by israel did so through funds raised by gofundme, including ahmed @90-ghost on tumblr, at least four people i know personally, and maybe hundreds more i know through acquaintances or i've seen on twitter. if you donated to these campaigns you would know this because they usually post updates saying "good news! we were able to get x out of gaza, but now we're trying to get the rest of our family out, so we've upped our goal to x."

most of the campaigns remain open because they will try to get the most vulnerable members of a family out first, after which they will try to get the rest out.

since the border was destroyed right now people are being displaced internally, which means instead of the money going to corrupt border guards it is used to buy tents, buy medical supplies, buy food, or rent some of the few units still standing in different areas within gaza. basic foodstuffs in gaza now can cost up to 200USD. and it is only getting worse and more extreme.

the only entries and exit are through israeli crossings now that egypt has no control over. egypt could be bribed. israel can't. they have a small list of injured children they occasionally evacuate through israel-controlled crossings and airbases, but just so you understand how this is also part of the genocide and how israelis use any excuse to allow more people from gaza to die, netanyahu froze one crossing as a 'retaliation' for the bombing of (syrian, arab) children in majdal shams that no one has actually taken responsibility for.

other crossings were out of use for weeks because israel allowed settlers to block the aid trucks going into gaza, until the rafah border was destroyed and these blockades were no longer necessary.

they also consistently close the single humanitarian corridor, kerem shalom crossing. yesterday it was open to deliver 80 bodies of unidentified dead palestinians to be buried in a mass grave, today the "humanitarian route" is closed until further notice.

if the border was still open, you would have more feel-good stories and you would be confident your money was going to evacuate people (also known as ethnic cleansing. i hope you understand that this best-case scenario you're referring to, this hope you want to cling to, is forced displacement of people who have lost their homes and who may never be able to return.)

but israel destroyed the border. people are still raising money to register their families for once it does open, but there is no guarantee of when that will happen, and most of the money ends up used so they can survive their current displacements within gaza.

there's a lack of feel-good stories because it's a genocide. that's all. this has been nothing but ten months of torture and slow death and closing every avenue for survival to gazans. now you know what that means.

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heads up: this games charity bundle was finally approved on itch.io! it opens this friday, april 12th, and will run for a week. all proceeds will go to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.