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First, the narrative was Israel would never bomb hospitals. Now, the hospitals are Hamas bases. Then, we respect journalists. Now, we have a fucking kill list of journalists because they are Hamas collaborators. First, we are not letting fuel in until the hostages are released. Now, we are not accepting the hostages back because that would stop our ground invasion and let Hamas win. And I could go on about every single lie they're making up. If you look up "Hamas rape" on google, the first link leads to Times of Israel saying Israel has found no forensic evidence of sexual violence, and only one eyewitness testimony out of 3.5k people attending the rave. If you Google "Hamas beheaded babies" the top links say they have no evidence for the claim besides word of mouth from extremist soldiers. Israeli extremists think about the ugliest goriest scene they can make out in their sick heads, tell that to a international journalist and they run away with it like it's gospel.

And children are being killed in the name of these lies. Thousands are being displaced in images that remind me of the pictures of Tantura 75 years ago, with their hands up so the tanks don't shoot them. Amputees are leaving the hospitals in wheelchairs hours after their surgeries because they are being shot at. Elders who survived the Nakba on 48 are having to walk towards Southern Gaza on foot (imagine walking from one end of your city to the other on foot), displaced again. People are cheering for the haunting images of white phosphorus bombs being dropped over Gaza. Gazan workers who were arrested in the West Bank are being thrust back into the bombings wearing numbered labels.

This is not normal. We are seeing the early stages of the settler colonial genocide of an indigenous population. Native leaders who have visited Gaza say its refugee camps look eerily like reservations. We can stop this. For the first time we are able to see wide scale accounts from the hands of the people suffering the genocide, and Israel is so scared of it they have cut all communications in Gaza.

This is our litmus test. I think we have never seen more clearly, with Palestine, Armenia, Congo and Sudan how colonialism has made our world a rotten place to live in.

The South African apartheid collapsed due to boycotts. We have to do everything in our power to stop Israel's hegemony. Even talking to a group of friends about Palestine changes the status quo. There's no world where we can live peacefully if Israel accomplishes their goals.

Keep yourself updated and share Palestinian voices. Muna El-Kurd said every tweet is like a treasure to them, because their voices are repressed on social media and even on this very app. Make it your action item to share something about the Palestinian plight everyday. Here are some resources:

Al Jazeera, Anadolu Agency, Mondoweiss

Boycott Divest Sanction Movement

Palestinian Youth Movement is organizing protests and direct action against weapons factories across the US

Mohammed El-Kurd (twitter / instagram)

Muhammad Shehada (twitter)

Motaz Azaiza (instagram) - reporting directly from Gaza.

Hind Khudary - reporting directly from Gaza. Her husband and daughter moved South to run from the tanks but she stayed behind to record the genocide. The least we can do is not let her calls fall on deaf ears.

You can participate in boycotts wherever you are in the world, through BDS guidelines. Don't be overwhelmed by gigantic boycott lists. BDS explicitly targets only a few brands which have bigger impact. You can stop consuming from as many brands as you want, though, and by all means feel free to give a 1 star review to McDonalds, Papa John, Pizza Hut, Burger King and Starbucks. Right now, they are focusing on boycotting the following:

Carrefour, HP, Puma, Sabra, Sodastream, Ahava cosmetics, Israeli fruits and vegetables

Push for a cultural boycott - pressure your favorite artist to speak out on Palestine and cancel any upcoming performances on occupied territory (Lorde cancelled her gig in Israel because of this. It works.)

If you can, participate in direct action or donate.

Palestine Action works to shut down Israeli weapons factories in the UK and USA, and have successfully shut down one of their firms in London.Some of the activists are going on trial and are calling for mobilizing on court.

Palestinian Youth Movement is organizing direct actions to stop the shipping of wars to Israel. Follow them.

Educate yourself. Read into Palestinian history and the occupation. You can't common sense people out of decades of propaganda. If your arguments crumble when a zionist brings up the "disengagement of Gaza", you have to learn more.

Read Decolonize Palestine. They have 15 minute reads that concisely explain the occupation (and its colonial roots) and debunk popular myths, including pinkwashing.

Read on Palestine. Here's an amazing masterpost.

Verso Book Club is giving out free books on Palestine (I personally downloaded Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappe. If you still believe in the two states solution, this book by an Israeli professor debunks it).

Call your representatives. The Labour Party in the UK had an emergency meeting after several councilors threatened to resign if they didn't condemn Israeli war crimes. Calling to show your complaints works, even more if you live in a country that funds genocide.

FOR PEOPLE IN THE USA: USCPR has developed this toolkit for calls, here's a document that autosends emails to your representatives and here's a toolkit by Ceasefire in Gaza NOW!

FOR PEOPLE IN EUROPE: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace targeting the European Parliament and one specific for almost all countries in Europe, including Germany, Ireland, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Greece, Norway, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Finland, Austria, Belgium Romania and Ukraine

FOR PEOPLE IN THE UK: Friends of Al-Aqsa UK and Palestine Solidarity UK have made toolkits for calls and emails

FOR PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA: Here's a toolkit by Stand With Palestine

FOR PEOPLE IN CANADA: Here's a toolkit by Indepent Jewish Voices for Canada

Join a protest. Here's a constantly updating list of protests:

Global calendar

Another global calendar (go to the instragram of the organizers to confirm your protest)

USA calendar

Australia calendar

Youssef, a precious two-year-old boy, now has his life in danger as war sweeps through the Gaza Strip. We urgently need your support to provide him with life-saving medical care and shelter. Every donation, no matter how small, can make a big difference. Please consider making a donation today to help Joseph and his family survive this unimaginable ordeal. By sharing this post, you can help spread the word and increase your chances of reaching our goal. Together, we can give Joseph a fighting chance against the horrors of war. Thank you for your kindness and generosity. Every dollar donated brings us closer to saving Joseph's precious life.

10£ may seem small

But ‏ your contribution helps save the life of an entire family suffering from the threat of genocide, repeated bombing, and displacement in Gaza. Hand in hand, we put hope and a smile back on my family’s face Please donate now 🙏

Iyad has Diabetes and he URGENTLY needs medicine. He can't buy food for his family nor Ruba's family either. Food and medicine prices are skyrocketing in Gaza and with how slow this campaign is going it is not able to provide for 15 people.

Iyad needs his medicine for his blood pressure. It impacts his mobility meaning it impacts his ability to fucking escape bombs. You know how dangerous it is for Gazans to be stuck in one place.

He also has several young children who are 5, 7, 10, 13, and 14 years old. They have to go without food now.

They have no money. Please, even a dollar helps. Donate however much you can.

Vetted no. 90 and 173 on the Vetted Gaza Fundraisers Spreadsheet for more information see my tag #iyadsobhe

Tagging for reach:

Hello again, I am Aseel from Gaza, I live in war, fear and destruction, we have been living for almost a year now but we do not know how long, we have been displaced from our home more than 11 times,

every time I was displaced to another place I prayed that this would be the last, but then came the idea of ​​​​forced exit to search for safety where there is no safety, we got very tired and our bodies were exhausted, we no longer had the energy to continue, we lived hunger, thirst, cold and all the difficult conditions that humans cannot imagine,

we did not imagine that a day would come when we would live all of this, I lost my family and my childhood home, even my friends are no longer there, I was left alone!! I am looking for salvation from death, I fear death and I dread it, the idea is terrifying to leave your dreams, ambitions and the life you planned for and go from this world, we do not deny death but we do not want to live it now,

I had a beautiful life, suddenly I do not know how I lost my life, we live in a tent that can only accommodate 3 people, made of nylon that no human can bear, just standing in it for more than two minutes during the day is enough to melt you, in addition to insects, diseases and lack of privacy, imagine all this!! Can you live??

In addition, my father had a stroke due to the loss, and my mother also needs care due to chronic diseases and the lack of treatment, and her condition is getting worse. I am the only one who takes care of them. I really fear loss and I do not want to lose, as I lost a large part of my family, my home, my work, and my entire previous life.

Things here are more difficult than you imagined, reality is painful

We wake up every day to the smell of death, I have been surrounded by tanks and helicopters more than 4 times, each time I do not know how to survive? It seems that my death has not come yet

I do not want to die!! 🥺

Please help me save my life and get out of here, life is impossible

Your donation will save my life, it is the only way, hand in hand we can achieve the goal please

My campaing vetted by

@90-ghost

@fairuzfan

@nabulsi @appsa

keensaladbanana - Julieat is raising funds for her family to escape Gaza. vetted by association, VERY low on funds (kr5,694/kr350,000). campaign link

karamalmadhoun0 - Karam is trying to escape to Egypt with his family of 5. vetted by multiple sources. (€16,176/€20,000). campaign link

farohablogsworld - Mohanad and Farah are a married couple trying to rebuild their lives in the war. vetted by association. (€1,318/€35,000). campaign link. note that they had to change their link due to a problem with currency, this is the new one!

asmaayyad - Asmaa is a daughter in a family of 8 trying to evacuate. vetted. (€16,450/€45,000). campaign link

rehabsh98 - Rehab and Hussein and their two children are trying to evacuate Gaza. vetted. ($34,869/$40,000). campaign link

nevinalser - Nevin has a young child and is trying to evacuate Gaza with her family. vetted. VERY low on funds (€1,263/€50,000). campaign link

helpamalm - Amal is trying to escape Gaza with her family. not vetted, but seems legitimate, as this fundraiser has been up since May! VERY low on funds! (€579/€53,000). campaign link

ahmadwaleed5 - Ahmed and his family are trying to rebuild their lives in the war. vetted. ($8,346/$25,000). campaign link

Keep in mind that it's from 2015. The West Bank is far more fragmented today; consider the fact that Israel had approved the largest land grab of Palestinian land in 30 years just this past July, or the fact that Israeli settlers, with the protection of Israeli police, had sized 367 dunams of Palestinian farmland and established 8 settlements just in the month of August, 2024.

Hazem lost his wife and children in a bombing that injured him badly. He needs help starting anew while grieving the loss of his family to genocide.

Can you help him?

We'll try to reach 200$ for the next week.

This is an emergency and so I will make it an easy read, as Amal CANNOT afford people scrolling past this post:

@amalashuor , a  young mother needs your help in buying baby food for her daughter Maryam. At only 18 months old, Maryam is in danger of severe malnutrition and this may even put her life at risk.

Amal immediately needs to raise at least €5000 to buy necessary baby products like milk, cerelac and even nappies.

I cannot overstate how important this is when Amal has been displaced TWICE in 10 days and has lost €4000 in transportation fees.  She was in Rafah for a long time and recently had to flee to Khan Younis due to IOF aggression. And again from the east of Khan Younis to the West to escape shelling.

Currently she has exhausted most of the funds she had raised given how expensive the cost of living has become in Gaza. With no income, this Gofundme is what she depends on to survive.

IOF repeatedly targeting aide workers has forced UN to temporarily suspend all operations in Gaza strip. Henceforth food prices are expected to skyrocket even more and Amal is at a loss as to what to do since she already spends €2500 monthly on meagre amounts of food that the family then has to stretch as much as they can so as to not completely starve. Amal also needs personal hygiene products during periods to avoid infection- we often talk about women's rights and health on this site, so please help this mother by donating.

Currently at €33,167. Please get Amal to €40,000. The money would cover costs of both baby food and personal hygiene products.

my dear friend @bilal-salah0 has to face ridiculous challenges in transferring funds to his family of 18 people. he cannot transfer the funds from his german bank account directly, but needs to pass them through another country first. this means he is faced with extremely high transfer fees. on top of that, he was the victim of extortion by his exploitative ex-employer/landlord. please help him reach his goal of €110,000 in 10 days so he can help his family survive!

donations have been coming in very slowly. so far, he has reached: €102,314 / €110,000, €7686 still to go

[verified here, #132, line 136] [GFM here]

please don't let him and his family down. he doesn't deserve what's happening to him.

tagging for reach under the cut, please lmk if you'd like to be removed:

Please keep sharing donating, roughly €7.6k left to raise in the next 10 days.

Can you put yourself in my place for a second?

To lose your family, your job, your home and everything you own in a second!!💔

and you are forced to do all of this for your country?

To sacrifice yourself for a year now while you live in war, fear and deprivation of your most basic rights?

Can you imagine yourself living in a tent that is not big enough for two people, you and everyone around you are close to each other, no privacy, no personal hygiene and you cannot provide your most basic rights?

To endure the cold and heavy rain and to drown in the rain in the middle of the night and endure!!

That summer comes upon you and you endure a temperature that reaches melting inside a tent made of poor nylon that you cannot stand inside for more than two minutes? imagined this,

this is what we live and suffer, but for how long?? No water, no electricity, life is very stressful, it has tired us out,

we don't want a life like this, we want to survive, your help is what will save my life from all this, just please put yourself in my place and if you can feel for me just help me by donating,

this is my only refuge,

I have no choice but your support and sympathy,

you have become a beautiful family to me,

don't forget me!!🥺🙏🏻

my campaing is vetted by @90-ghost @fairuzfan ❤️

@nabulsi

As of August 24th, Aseel's campaign has raised $14,343/$50,000. She is still very far from reaching her goal! Please continue to support her by sharing and donating.

if i could get your attention for a second- i’ll make this quick. i have posted before about doaa’s campaign, here is a longer post with more info. this is a verified campaign.

basically doaa @dodoomar12345 and her 5 year old autistic son omar are currently in egypt after fleeing the war and genocide earlier in the year. omar is non verbal and has been severely traumatized by the war. treatment and special schooling is very expensive, and like many other gazan refugees doaa was forced to leave with very little.

thanks to your support she was able to raise enough money to buy a new sewing machine so she can restart her sewing business in egypt and have a source of income! below are photos she sent me which she asked me to post ❤️

however, she still needs help. when she evacuated gaza, her husband stayed behind. understandably she's extremely worried for him, and her son omar is very attached to him and is suffering a lot without him there. i can only imagine how difficult it is trying to care for a young autistic child completely by yourself, worried that your entire family could die at any second.

please help doaa raise enough money to evacuate her husband when its possible. this will also help support her parents and six siblings who are still trapped in gaza.

its really amazing that through your participation in this campaign doaa was able to reopen her business and start rebuilding her life after war and destruction. please keep participating in this campaign! your donations really make a difference

52 SEK = $5 USD

104 SEK = $10 USD

261 SEK = $25 USD

1044 SEK = $100 USD

kr164,544 SEK raised of kr300,000

$15,092/$31,000

Vetted by 90-ghost

https://www.gofundme.com/f/suppor

Please donate to save my life and my family 🍉🇵🇸

Asking for help is not easy, I ask for a small donation of only 20€ from each person, 20€ will save my family from death in Gaza 💔 Donate through the link in bio (gofundme) Together, we can achieve our goal within a day and provide crucial support to me and my family in Gaza. Your contribution means everything to us and in these difficult times your kindness is our greatest hope. We are very grateful for any assistance you can provide and thank you for your kindness and generosity in our time of need

more information @ana-bananya ⬆️⬆️⬆️🍉🇵🇸

you may have seen me post about fidaa’s campaign @fidaa-family2 (this is a verified campaign)

graphic by @fading-event-608

fidaa is a 29 year old woman from gaza with two very young children, muhammed and sila, one of whom was born during the war. her home was destroyed and she’s been displaced many times, and is currently separated from the rest of her family- her husband, her many siblings, and her parents. i can only imagine how nerve-wracking this is.

she’s doing her best to take care of her children by herself, despite facing hunger, thirst, widespread disease, and the threat of death. the other day, there was intense bombing near her and another family close to her was killed. life in gaza right now is hell and she told me they feel like they are just waiting for their turn to die.

fidaa and i talk often, and i feel lucky to know her. she’s an incredibly strong person, she travels long distances to find limited supplies for her kids and helps her siblings raise money even though shes separated from them.

but she needs help. the situation in gaza is so bad right now, the idf is preventing aid from entering and the food, water, and medicine available are extremely expensive. please share and donate to help her and her children survive and eventually leave gaza

Falestine is married and has a 3 month old baby, and cannot afford to even give him diapers and milk.

She was made to give birth during this onslaught, and immediately moved from the hospital to a tent. Her home was bulldozed by the occupation, leaving her and her family displaced. The tent where they live is horribly unhygienic and plagued with disease; they are next to a public toilet and surrounded by dirt and waste.

Her mother is chronically ill, and her father tragically suffered a stroke. They currently have no way to treat her illness.

In order to evacuate and provide basic necessities for Falestine's family, this campaign needs to raise $40,000 USD. Currently, they've raised $15,172; A great amount, but not enough.

Please help Falestine and her family. Donate if you're able to, and share the campaign. No one deserves be forced to live through these horrible conditions.

today i want to tell you about my friend shimaa and her family.

shimaa, also spelled shaima in english, is a talented 22 year old graphic designer from gaza. before the war started, she planned to get her master's degree. unfortunately, the war has stolen that dream away, along with her home and the lives of her family members.

now, shimaa is doing her best to provide for her family, including:

her grandmother who has alzheimer's, and whose wheelchair was recently destroyed by an airstrike;

her mother, who was recently wounded by a bullet and needed surgery to take it out;

and her nephew, who suffers from a cardiovascular condition and needs a liver transplant as well.

this is her nephew, jihad, who was orphaned during the war. he was the only survivor when his house was bombed. fortunately, he has survived to this day. with our support, shimaa can pay for the food, daily necessities, and medical expenses that jihad and the rest of her family needs.

want to support shimaa? you can donate to her fundraiser here!

as someone who has been personally in contact with shimaa, i'm willing to vouch for her and the authenticity of this fundraiser.

even as little as $5 can make a big difference. if you can spare $5 from your paycheck, please consider donating today! ❤️

other ways to support shimaa:

reblog and share this post!

follow her on twitter!

donate directly to her bank account! money from the gofundme can take months to arrive, but money wired directly to her is available within just a few days. shimaa urgently needs to buy a wheelchair for her grandmother, among other medical necessities for her family. anything you can spare helps.

leave a message of support in the tags, replies, or by messaging shimaa directly on twitter or whatsapp! i'll be sharing any messages of support i see with her.

for those of you who want to donate, but don't have a lot of energy to figure it out, you can message me for my paypal and i would be happy to forward your donation to shimaa on your behalf!

remember, if you send me proof of your donation, you can receive free art from me!