the surface, characterised by the core

Summer Richards as Katherine Howard

Hello Dear,

We, (Najwa, Jana, Farah, and Maryam), are the sisters of Shaheed Khalid Saed Ash-Shawwah, who was martyred on 07/31/24 along with Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail Al-Ghoul and his colleague, photographer Rami Al-Rifi . Khalid was our older and only brother and he was a great support for us and others. As you may heard Khalid’s story in the news, he was bombed while he was riding his bicycle coming back from delivering food to our old and injured neighbors.

Before the IDF forces killed our brother Khalid, they forced us to evacuate our house and left everything behind. They then destroyed our house and our father’s restaurant. We had to move at least 10 times since every new area we seek refuge to gets bombed.

Currently, the 4 of us and our parents, are living devastating and sad life in a bombed room in Gaza. It is extremely difficult for us to get the basic needs of food, water, and shelter.

We sincerely hope you can empathize with our dire situation and consider supporting us. We are raising funds in order to be able to pay the rising cost of basic necessities in north Gaza. Our family is large and the cost of survival in north Gaza is astronomical. If you have anything you can spare, we implore you to support us. From where you are right now, you personally can help save our lives in north Gaza.

Please donate and/or replog 🥺🙏🇵🇸

Please reblog our post, follow us @khalid-Sisters and boost our posts, and repost the link to our campaign across all your social media.

Your generosity has the power to make a significant difference, and will give us hope that there will a better future waiting for us once the war stops.

We ask God to bless you and your families and to protect you all from all calamities and to never make you feel or go through what we are going through.

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From the bottom of my heart, thank you!🙌🏼❤️

With your precious support and big hearts, we were able to reach 3,000$. Every dollar of this money means a lot to us, it helps us meet our basic needs and gives us a glimmer of hope in these difficult times.🥺

But our journey is not over yet. We are still at the beginning of the road and with your support we will reach our goal

I am trying with all my might to secure a decent life for my children. We are in dire need of permanent housing that provides us with security, education that protects their future, and indispensable daily needs.😔

I set an initial goal of reaching $6,000. We are still suffering from the effects of war and the loss of everything, as well as from lack of capabilities and high prices. This amount is not just a number, but rather a real opportunity to rebuild our lives and return a smile to the faces of my children.🙏🏼

Every contribution, no matter how small, is a ray of hope that lights our way. We believe that with you, we can achieve this dream, step by step.❤️💚🤍🖤

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for standing by us. Together, we can get through this and build a better future for my family.🙌🏼❤️

the reason i'm generally opposed to policies that blanket ban ai is less out of ideology and more out of practicality. i obviously respect any given organization's ability to set its own rules - this is fine - but saying "no gen ai" just keeps out honest people, not liars

if you want me to not submit generative artworks to your magazine or art show, that's fine, i won't because i value honesty in how i make things. but there's really no practical, functional way to deter a liar who will just say "it's real", not without sky-high false positives

this is even worse for writing than it is for images. at least images have metadata, and stripping/altering metadata is a slightly more involved process than just copy-paste. in writing the only ai detection is based on totally subjective criteria of quality

❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 Here is my story 🍉🇵🇸

“My name is Eslam from Gaza, I’m 29 years old, and I’m a children teacher from Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. a mother of two daughters, Hanaa 5 years old, and Alma, 10 months old. My husband Rasmi is the director of 3 language and training centers. In this war, our house was completely destroyed and razed to the ground, and my husband’s centers were blown up. He lost his job, and we were completely displaced, and we are now homeless and jobless, My two young daughters constantly suffer from diseases due to malnutrition and water pollution.

Danger and death surround us all day and all night. We have lost everything and depend on donations to survive and, most of all, to have any hope of escaping this genocide and evacuating to safety in Egypt. The cost of daily living continues to rise significantly in Gaza - imagine that we cannot find the type of milk for our daughter because of its high price. There is no kind of detergent and this is the cause of skin diseases for my two little girls. We bought a piece of soap for $30! ، and detergent is 100$.

Attached for you are pictures of how our lives have changed since October 7th.

Eslam is vetted as line #175 on the Bees and Watermelons spreadsheet.

She's also on Instagram @/eslamfa95.

Ayaa on IG @/ayaa_mahmoud_99 is Eslam's sister

Proof under cut.

My name is Ayaa from Gaza city, I am a children’s teacher, 24 years old, living with my parents and siblings. We all used to live a peaceful life together in our home. As you can see this was my home before being destroyed totally. My home was a 6-story building but now it becomes ruins.

My parents worked 24/7 to be able to build our house, but now after all these years of hard working they have lost everything and become homeless, and emigrants.

As for our job and work, My brother and I had a training centre for languages, we had a dream of being able to teach kids , teenagers, and adults English language skills through camps, games, and many other ways. We worked together hand by hand to make it possible, and when it starts to come true a war broke out and blew up all of our dreams. One morning we woke up and watched the news, and saw our centre has been destroyed. At that moment, we were hopeless, powerless, and stray.

Not only our home, center, but also our family car. I still remember that moment when my mother sold her jewelry in order to buy the car to move easily. But can you imagine the moment you see the last thing you own is damaged, ruined, and smashed.

So for Gods’ sake, you are the only ones who can help us to rebuild our ruined life. I will be so grateful for your kindness and support.

Will go ahead and call it yet to be verified, but not suspicious.

Use discretion and donate of you feel comfortable.

If you can't donate but still want to help please Share. As it will help get more eyes and support on the campaign.

Ayoosh Ayaa is Eslam's sister-in-law. Ayoosh Ayaa also confirmed her brother (Eslam's husband) is @rasmi-gaza. Proof under cut.

Disclaimer: I'm not an official vetter. I personally believe this campaign is legitimate given the evidence and encourage you to share and donate if you feel comfortable.

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