“It was made clear to us how sensitive this issue is, the very fact that this effect exists,” the Air Force source said. A source who participated in a discussion about the use of the technique in 2021, led by the then-chief of the army’s Southern Command, Eliezer Toledano, explained: “Everyone took it very seriously in the discussion, the fact that gas is what kills. They feared it would cause significant damage to [Israel’s] image.”

This has so far meant that no medical supplies were allowed in (although many are waiting at the border), no building material and not enough fuel to allow water and power plants to function again. In an interview earlier, the spokesperson of Gaza’s civil defence said that while the north of Gaza needs about 130,000 tents, it has only received 200 tents so far.

"The question that haunts me is what should I do then? After the war, after the work pressure ends, in my free time, what should I do? What should I work on? How do I fill my free time? It's going to be long. No brothers, no sisters, no father or mother, not even the children I used to play with, my nieces and nephews."

This is going to be the reality of tens of thousands of people in Gaza who had lost everyone. Who will they go to for comfort? Who will be there to help them through? Who will they visit on holidays?

Any donation helps us survive and provides us with the Donate here

It was very cold, as my friends in America told me... ، I hope everyone feels warm and none of you get cold.

Meanwhile, you can imagine that the Palestinians in Gaza are also exposed to low temperatures, but the difference is that they live in tents and there are no ways to heat them or blankets to protect them from the cold.

This fundraiser belongs to Mohammed Abu Alwan's brother and so is vetted by association.

From the fundraiser page:

Everyone should read this.

Reading the entire article made me sick to my stomach.

These Israelis are incredibly deranged and evil. They’re real life monsters. Demons.

Palestinians have been enduring them for 76 whole years.

#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8

Hi, everyone! I know I haven’t been posting as much recently (will try to do better in the new year), but I wanted to share some more fundraisers from people who have reached out to me.

The situation in Gaza is as dire as ever. Please check out these fundraisers and consider donating if you can.

Amounts current as of December 29, 2024.

@aliandhadeel-family7 || https://gofund.me/66b0d0b0 3,785 / 70k EUR

@fatooamaahed || https://gofund.me/b22186a7 11,382 / 40k EUR

@yaserkollab3 || https://gofund.me/f1f369cc 361 / 10k EUR

@hala-15 || https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUL966VBH88NC

@darinefamily || https://gofund.me/7c06d4ac 6,658 / 30k EUR

@mohammedaldeeb || https://gofund.me/71b5dfcf 45,953 / 55k EUR

@help-belalfamily || https://gofund.me/4e96d62d 14,151 / 20k USD

@ayman-waleed || https://gofund.me/e85369a1 3,180 / 20k EUR

@karamrafeek || https://gofund.me/a9d0f2d7 3,630 / 7k GBP

@mohammedyasers || https://gofund.me/e7c7528a 30,674 / 35k EUR

@aboodalqedra10 || https://gofund.me/95360334 8,825 / 25k EUR

@ayaanqar95 || https://gofund.me/4f615392 2,039 / 35k EUR

@khadigayousef2024, @youseffamily || https://gofund.me/fefe93ba 41,953 / 50k EUR

@fayezjadallah || https://gofund.me/b0a82c94 20,104  / 25k GBP

@samiyonis09 || https://linktr.ee/sami.younes 11,908 / 50 USD

@hamza-gaza || https://gofund.me/abf54bf1 5,720 / 100k EUR

@elegantkidpuppy || https://gofund.me/73d4b003 8,358 / 10k GBP

@ahmad-syam2 || https://gofund.me/665fbb6c 8,007 / 40k CAD

@amnyaburas || https://gofund.me/2cc7a2e1 2,640 / 68k CAD

@ghada-family || https://gofund.me/ce954912 7,586 / 20k EUR

@nadamd-46 || https://gofund.me/30844f7f 4,203 / 20k USD

@malak3ayman || https://gofund.me/b95ef740 15,526 / 60k EUR

@hazemsfamily || https://gofund.me/917ecb89 25,161 / 50k EUR

@safaakhatib || https://gofund.me/17f04245 702 / 14k EUR

@alanqarabood1997 || https://gofund.me/282839cd 67,300 / 100k EUR

@mariamblogs || https://gofund.me/faf917c2 9,005 / 45k EUR

@jawadff || https://gofund.me/3196f864 6,270 / 30k USD

@amira-nimer || https://gofund.me/403c4f69 32,783 / 39k EUR

@alaa2029 || https://gofund.me/cb8c05a3 30,761 / 56 GBP

@hassanayman7 || https://gofund.me/395db132 692 / 50k EUR

@familgazaamal1 || https://gofund.me/0f8138fb 10,409 / 30k USD

@ghada-mhasen22 || https://gofund.me/8698f2f9 2,642 / 50k USD

@samiraaymaan || https://gofund.me/18a035a1 5,207 / 20k USD

@marwasbneh || https://paypal.com/donate/?campaign_id=EJ892Z3JYTPYS

@ahmednaserfamily || https://gofund.me/9898da4f 2,821 / 100k EUR

@reem-alajrami || https://gofund.me/49656309 2,672 / 5k EUR

@fayezjadallah || https://gofund.me/59476a39 25,988 / 27k USD

The US-backed terrorist state of Israel killed Palestinian chef and co-founder of the Gaza Soup Kitchen, Mahmoud al-Madhoun.

Mahmoud was able to feed over 3,000 Palestinian civilians a day through the genocide.

Let's keep giving it all we've got for the Gaza Soup Kitchen. Israel has repeatedly targeted and killed those who have given service to the Gaza community.

Donate as much as you can or if you're unable to, share this post so it reaches more people! Any amount, even a dollar, can help the heroes of the Gaza Soup Kitchen to feed the people of Gaza.

Amal (@amalashuor) was telling me how cold it can get in the tent and how the fragile condition of the tent doesn't protect her or her toddler from the cold. Her palms are cracking and bleeding because of the harsh weather. Thankfully, she was able to buy two warm outfits for her daughter using your donations.

Selected quotes (bolding mine):

This was the context in which the state’s citizenship laws of the early 1950s were enacted – first, the Law of Return in 1950, which granted citizenship to any Jew in the world; and then its elaboration in 1952 Citizenship Law, which nullified any existing citizenship status held by Palestinians.

I don’t regard my decision to renounce this citizenship as an effort to reverse a legal status as much as it is an acknowledgement that this status never held any legitimacy to begin with. Israeli citizenship law is predicated on the worst kinds of violent crimes we know of, and on a deepening litany of lies intended to whitewash those crimes...These are forged documents. They are, more importantly, a blunt instrument used to continually displace actual living people, families, entire populations of the land’s Indigenous inhabitants.

Decolonization starts with listening to and answering the calls of Palestinian organizers to develop a decolonizing consciousness and practice, to remove material structures that have been placed between Palestinians and their land, and to reverse the normalization of these arbitrary barriers...The struggle for a liberated Palestine is linked to the struggle of Indigenous Land Back movements everywhere. My single citizenship is but one brick in that wall. Nevertheless, it is a brick. And it must be physically removed.

This is one of those images that I will never forget, one that should be etched into our collective memory of the genocidal horrors of Gaza.

This is Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, forced to walk out of the Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza towards Israeli tanks to be taken captive by Israeli forces. His whereabouts are still unknown since this picture was taken yesterday (28 December 2024) and the hospital has been burnt down since.

His crime? He maintained his oath as a doctor and refused to abandon his patients.

With illegal settlements, Israel fragmented the West Bank into landmasses, restricting over 3 million Palestinians from accessing their lands and moving freely by building an apartheid wall over 85% of the land. In Gaza, Israel crammed 2 million Palestinians in a 141 square miles concentration camp and placed them under a brutal siege, controlling their air, sea and land crossings and subjecting them to routine military assaults. Then in East Jerusalem, Israel subjects 360,000 Palestinians to ongoing removal campaigns from denying the majority of building permits to Palestinians who since 1991 only received 30% of the building permits issued altogether, to straight up removing them from their homes. Even within Israel, an explicit effort is being made and has been to remove Bedouins from their land, on top of creating discriminatory laws that only apply to Israel's "Arab" (Palestinian) population, like banning reunification of spouses/families if they happen to be from the West Bank or Gaza.

And that's barely scratching the surface of Israel's incremental genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine.

Yet, somehow Zionists have the audacity to brand Palestinians' call to break free from Israel's brutality and occupation which Israel imposes on them for simply existing in the area between the river and the sea, as a call of/for violence. This contradiction indeed defies basic logic; a projection that aims to distract from the many tragedies unfolding right before our eyes every day.