The situation in the West Bank had escalated a lot since last night. The ministry of health reported 21 were killed in the West Bank as of 11 am local time. Israel is conducting airstrikes on West Bank cities like Jenin which is not as usual as you'd think for the West Bank. Additionally, Israel placed entire areas on lockdown and is preventing ambulances from retrieving the injured which will inevitably mean the number of deaths will increase.
Remember, the West Bank is occupied by Israel. Since October 2023, Israel had killed over 700 Palestinians in the West Bank including children.
As students around the world begin to prepare for their new academic year, students in Gaza are missing yet another school year as they endure this genocide. Tens of thousands of them will not be returning to school for good as they were amongst the over 16,000 children killed by Israel since October of last year.
According to the UN, 93% of schools in Gaza have been targeted since October 2023, including all universities in the strip. Israel's deliberate and systematic targeting of educational institutions has been dubbed "scholasticide".
Guys please block @/javert and all the people on their posts accusing shahed and the palestinian bloggers putting together lists of vetted fundraisers of being scammers.
Shes only just gotten past the halfway point. Dont let this slow her down. She has to get to 80k within the next week
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Guys lately there has been a concerted effort on tumblr to discredit both palestinians sharing their gfms online as well as the disapora palestinians who have been doing the taxing work of verifying palestinian accounts so that your money goes to the people who actually need it in Gaza.
Some big bloggers have been making posts calling palestinians scammers, and while id hoped it could just be ignored, users like @/trivi*llytrue with a significant following have begun to tell people to withdraw their donations from palestinian gofundmes and give it to unrwa instead.
Shahed and Shaima+Mohammed's gfms were specifically used as an example by user @/javert to "prove" that they're all scammers, because they have the same organizer, and we have already begun to see the repercussions of this. Someone withdrew their $500 donation from shaima's campaign today.
Idk how to explain what a staggering loss this is to the family- especially when both shahed and their campaigns are running on such tight deadlines right now, and when the movement on shaima+mohammed's campaign not being nearly as proportional as it is to the extreme urgency of the campaign.
The argument proving palestinians as "scams" seems to boil down to a simple distrust of the entire spreadsheet that contains months of hardwork from @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi, which is crazy to me on both a common sense level (i literally remember the time when their respective blogs were personal blogs where they talked about their life before they dedicated it to platforming palestinian fundraisers) and on a human level (seeing the number of sheer number of palestinian users who have had to seek serious medical care because of the toll being exposed to their own genocide all the time has taken on them).
I can explain all i like till that theres a reason multiple gfms have the same organizer (v few people have the experience dealing with gfm's convoluted policies and beaurocracy, hence you may see same people managing multiple campaigns), that the so-called "opaque" vetting process has been explained over and over, i can answer your concerns about whether it is better to donate to western ngo's or people on the ground directly (it is the latter, due to israeli blockade and danger to aid workers in gaza rn), and can provide resources on identifying all the "scams" you are all so worried about losing your $5 donation to.
But no amount of explanation will be enough if you refuse to believe anything i, and more importantly, the palestinians themselves say because you are so committed to being apathetic to a literal genocide going on. Honestly the fact that you have not made an effort to listen to follow and pay attention to what palestinian users have been saying all this time has been telling enough.
It is heartbreaking for me personally to see these users keep calling good and kind people like shahed and wafaa (who is campaigning for her sister shaima and brother mohammed), both of whom i have talked to for a couple of months now and only want to help their families get to safety, being accused of lying about their circumstances for money.
It makes me want to rage and break things, knowing that they cant even have the luxury of privacy in their suffering because horrible people like this will call them fakers if they dont keep offering up proof. And even after they provide proof that they are "one of the good ones" and the threat to their lives is very real, i know it will still not be enough for some of you because you have already decided to choose to look away and pretend you're justified for it by unpersoning palestinians, just like all the people conducting their genocide.
I take it as a deep affront that you would call them fake, and that you would try to discredit the months of blood sweat and tears people like hussein and nairuz have put into this endeavour to help their people. If you believed any of that nonsense for even a second, you should be ashamed of yourself and you need to be forking over all the money you can spare and then some to rectify this RIGHT NOW
I have linked shahed's fundraiser before, i will link shaima and mohammed's next.
Shahed needs to raise 80k possibly within the next week, Shaima and mohammed have to regain momentum they lost because of this debacle so that they can get to their short term goal for the week too.
Hello, my name is Wafaa 42 years old. After my campaign ended, I wanted to start evacuating my… Said As needs your support for Help Mohammad
Both of these campaigns have been verified and are on the spreadsheet, trust that if you want to cause apparently even that isnt enough for some of you anymore. Share and donate to them NOW.
Guys while shahed was able to meet her goal after this ordeal, there was a very disproportionate response for the other victim of this incident.
Shaima and mohammed are currently only at $45,717 / $80,000
While this has gotten a bunch of notes and recently there was an uptick in donations i NEED you to keep up this energy consistently.
There are FOURTEEN people who need to be evacuated, and the border may open ANYTIME in the next few weeks.
Wafaa, who had to be evacuated early in feb without her family to be treated for a serious medical condition and has since been neglecting getting life-saving surgery so she can pour all her time and resources into getting her family out of gaza, has been losing her mind everytime there is a dip in donations because ever since this incident she is constantly on edge about which next accusation can hamper donations entirely.
Please do NOT wait for the next tragedy or smear campaign. They have suffered enough.
We dont have time to waste. Please follow @brutaliakhoa who has been tirelessly fundraising for wafaa this whole time, and has been consistently sharing updates on how shaima and mohammed's families are doing constantly.
Please keep donating and sharing this is beyond urgent.
