#omar hamad

Books are in short supply in Gaza right now. Omar has been saving books during the war and taking him with them through multiple displacements. He shared his packing and transport on September 6, 2025.

Omar is on Instagram @ omar.hamad7. He has a Chuffed fundraiser as well.

News cycles are focused elsewhere and attention is turned away at the moment, but the needs have only risen.

Famine has now been declared across the strip.

Almost nothing has been getting in for months.

The reason I'm asking people who haven't yet participated is because we're just normal people here, even with regular salaries there's only so much we can donate. Bringing new people into the fold is necessary as others are tapped out.

Omar, whose tweets above I quoted, this is his gofundme:

Ah, another reason I wanted to add to keep donating: a lot of these fundraisers were created for evacuation but the crossing is still closed. In the meantime, people with no jobs or homes need to continue buying very difficult to find price-gouged food and supplies. They're basically been living through an isolated dystopia forced on them by others. That's why you'll see fundraising goals raising.

Finally: I know another reason that makes it difficult to spread fundraisers is that you don't know which to pick. It's tough to feel like you're the arbiter of who gets help and sadly, who doesn't. Gazafunds has made that easy for you. They have a list of vetted fundraisers and every time you visit the page, you'll get a different one. So you can just donate to the one you visited and be confident that they're all being evenly rotated:

Instead of a mother combing the hair of her little daughter, she now finds herself searching for what remains of her body whole, only to find it between the two ceilings of their home, unreachable.

And instead of writing about hair, I’ve begun searching for death within my words.

As shared in a previous post, Omar Hamad has been saving books in Gaza during the war. On October 1 and 2, he showed his latest library setup.

On October 2 he shared the completed shelf.

Omar is on Instagram @ omar.hamad7. He has a Chuffed