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Gaza is experiencing a deep and severe low-pressure system. These storms are adding to the suffering of 1.5 million displaced people.

Five houses have collapsed in Gaza due to the torrential rain. It's even more difficult for those living in tents.

There is no way to stay warm. No one can even light fires because they have no gas or firewood. A child died this morning from the extreme cold.

Flooding may be a natural disaster, but the suffering caused by these floods was of Israeli design.

Israel has left most buildings in Gaza either damaged or completely reduced to rubble. There is no way to protect from the elements. Experts say 300,000 new tents are urgently needed, but Israel blocks the flow of supplies.

Israel has targeted sanitation systems and destroyed vehicles used to pump water throughout the city. All the ways that a city could respond to flooding has been sabotaged by years of infrastructural damage.

Please help families to survive these harsh conditions.

Mahmoud and Mahrah's mother caught the flu as winter approached. It is much harder to recover from the flu when conditions are so stressful and there isn't enough food or medicine.

Their father is suffering from pain in his leg and cannot move normally. They are hoping for him to recover soon.

I am a United States citizen creating this campaign on behalf of my friend… Dion Freedman needs your support for Help Mahmoud's Family Secur

Mahrah's fundraising efforts have been vetted by @90-ghost and shared by fairuzfan.

My wife, @cannilyuncanny hosts their family's GoFundMe campaign and sends transfers of donations directly to Mahrah in Gaza. I promise you that these donations are a lifeline for her family.

Please consider donating.

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90% of our goal is a very large number, please, there is only 10% left, please help even one euro and don't forget that I have suffered for more than two years and it is still going on Please donate. Donate

Hello I am Ibrahim, 15 years old, I seek your help and assistance to save… Ibrahim Yasser needs your support for Help Ibrahim's family e

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I write these words barely able to breathe from the severity of my illness. These past few days have been the hardest of my life. For a week now, I've been battling a severe case of the flu and excruciating chest pain that worsens daily, making the nights unbearably long. The cold gnaws at my bones mercilessly, and the effort I exert just to get a little water only makes my condition much worse.

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Our tent is no longer a tent… it's just a tattered rag that offers no protection from the cold or the rain. The rain has flooded everything around us, and the mattress we sleep on is now soaked. We've spent entire nights trying in vain to find a dry spot. Imagine trying to sleep on a wet mattress while your chest burns with illness and your body shudders from the cold… it's an indescribable feeling.

My name is Ahmad Dany. I am writing to you from the heart of the daily suffering we … Ahmad dany needs your support for Help Ahmed And His F

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My family and I urgently need medication, but our situation doesn't allow for even the simplest things. I feel that every passing day takes a toll on my health, and if I don't get treatment soon, I may not be able to endure this pain much longer. I am writing this while I am in dire need of someone who can help me by donating so that I can buy medicine and regain my health before my body completely collapses.

Please help Ahmed and his family survive the dangerous weather in Gaza right now

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Heavy rain can mean something very different depending on where you're living, and what materials make up your dwelling. Flooding disproportionately impacts the most marginalized people in the deepest levels of poverty. It's by design.

My friend Fadel (@fadel-danii) is suffering these catastrophic consequences of the heavy rain in Gaza. The downpour tore through his family's tent and all of his supplies have been flooded.

Please donate what you can as soon as possible! I am scared for him. If he can't raise enough for repairs by tomorrow he will have to spend the funds he has saved for his healthcare on the tent.

My name is Fadel Al-Dane, a Palestinian from Gaza, my age 23-year-old third-year I… Fadel Aldane needs your support for Help Fadel And His F

Fadel's campaign was verified and shared by @90-ghost and @a-shade-of-blue, and is #197 on the @gazavetters spreadsheet.

It rained here in Gaza last night. Everyone else is happy when it rains, but here in Gaza, we cry and feel so sad when it does.

The rain poured down on us last night, tearing our tent and flooding it. All our belongings and food were ruined.

We tried to repair the tent, but unfortunately, it's still torn and leaking heavily. I need your help, please, so we can buy a new tent. Please donate.

this kind of exposure to water can have serious health consequences, and Fadel is already ill and injured. Please help his vetted campaign

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Please reblog and donate if u can!

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Oh world, please look at us!!!

Water is pouring down now on us through our tattered tent . It's raining heavily now,

And we're soaked. My body is shivering violently from the cold. I'm sick and injured, and I can't bear all this.

Please do anything to help us to buy new tent. Please donate.

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Fadel is already struggling so much with ongoing pain from his injury and with his illness. All of us need to pull together to help him get through this storm. Fadel has already endured more than anyone should ever have to - he shouldn't be forced to choose between shelter and healthcare.

If you are reading this, you have the power to help him. Please donate, and share so that others can do so as well.

Guys, we tried to fix the tent with some nylon, but it's still leaking rainwater and letting in the cold wind. I received some donations yesterday, but,

we're only 685 euros short of buying a new tent. So please, help me buy a new tent to protect us from the rain and wind. I can't bear all this suffering anymore; we don't deserve this. Please donate.

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please help bridge this gap so Fadel's family can be protected from the rain and wind <3

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Please help! No one deserves this!

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Please offer support to Fadel and his family if you can. Fadel is already injured and this rain and cold is worsening everything in an already horrific environment. Please offer him and hid family some relief if you are able to afford to donate!!!

Guys, I'm very sick with the flu and a severe cold because It rained heavily and leaked into our tent, and a strong, cold wind came in.

The reason is that our tent is still torn, and we haven't been able to buy a new one yet.

Please, we only need €448 to buy a new tent. Please support me and my family so we can buy a new one. Please Donate.

Fadel is sick with the flu and still needs funds to buy a new tent to keep the rain and winter out. Every donation helps get him closer.

Think about how you felt the last time you were sick, and imagine how hard it would be to recover if you were in a torn tent in the cold, wet winter. Please help him get more secure shelter.

The flu is very dangerous for someone like Fadel, with injuries and poor nutrition because of the conditions he is forced to live in. Please give what you can to help him

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Honor Mosab's memory by donating to The Sameer Project.

We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,

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I will die. The doctor told me that even after waking up from my coma, I’m still in the danger zone. My blood level is too low because of severe malnutrition in Gaza.

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Death follows me everywhere. It sits beside my bed at night, and when I wake up I’m terrified all over again. How long can a person live like this? I’m exhausted from begging strangers to save my life. Please, don’t leave me alone.

Chuffed – PayPal – Verified

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the co-founder of 'crips for esims for gaza' and disability advocate, alice wong, has died according to her twitter account.

alice's disability advocacy naturally led her to palestine solidarity as the quote from the blog post announcing 'crips for esims' illustrates:

We also recognize that everyone in Gaza is now disabled due to the massive number of deaths, new disabilities, life-threatening illnesses and destruction of medical facilities going on. Such destruction also debilitates the land, water, and air, which will impact Palestinians and all surrounding life for generations to come. We owe our kin in Palestine to throw sand on the gears of genocide with our every breath. [source: the disability visibility project]

since december 2023, crips for esims for gaza has raised well over $3.1M and bought and maintained over 5,000 esims, undoubtedly saving lives.

in the past few days there has been intense winter flooding in gaza. donate to honor alice wong's memory–to keep people connected, to give disabled people the tools to advocate for themselves, to refuse to let palestine be silenced.

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

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by the way, ik everyone is paying attention to politicians' sex scandals, but you should know there was a collapse at one of the copper/cobalt mining operations in the drc with at least 32 deaths. here is an al jazeera link to the story. if you are reading this from a mobile phone or laptop, or if you use a vape, you should be paying attention. these are the people who have suffered for you to have those things. it is suspected that 200,000 people or more have been exploited into these illegal and dangerous mining operations. that is greater than the population of ontario, canada.

below are places where you can financially contribute. if you cant, share the news. tell your friends and people you know about it!

Hope and Healing is a humanitarian initiative led by Team Congo, in close collaboration with… Team Congo needs your support for Hope & Heali

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Donations to mutual aid groups have dropped by half since the ceasefire was announced. The bombs may have quieted, but the suffering hasn’t stopped— Palestinians in Gaza still need our help. Please, if you’re able, donate today:

Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza fac

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Please consider signing up for monthly contributions!

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WIDOW WITH DISABLED TEENS NEEDS URGENT EVACUATION!!

Please see this thread. The IOF is closing in on Ibtisam’s location! She and her family, including her 2 disabled teenagers, are being charged $5,000 usd for emergency evacuation!! They cannot move by foot and they CANNOT be trapped under IOF occupation!! They are extremely vulnerable and you are their last desperate hope!! PLEASE DO ANYTHING YOU CAN!!!!

Current: $71,113 out of $77,229 CAD ->

Need to raise: $6,116 CAD (about $4,417 usd)

Hello, I am Ibtisam Al-Habil. My suffering began in 2014 when my husband was martyred, and I was … Yaser Matar needs your support for Help

Vetting: line 231 on the vetted campaign master list by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi

NOTE: Campaign is in Canadian dollars or CAD. $1 usd = about $1.38 CAD. To donate $10 usd, send $13.80 or $14 CAD. To donate $20 usd, send $27.69 or $28 CAD

Help a Gaza teen walk again

Last year, an IOF attack killed Mohammed’s older brother, and all but destroyed Mohammed’s leg. Since then, Mohammed has been unable to attend his physical therapy due to lack of funds. The condition of his leg has deteriorated as a result.

He is raising funds for his ongoing care in Gaza and for food for his family. He has no income, nor does anyone in his family, which includes multiple disabled members who require expensive long term care. He is weak from starvation and only has one functional leg.

You are his only hope! Please help Mohammed pay for treatment for his leg and food for his family!

Current: €23,022 EUR out of €24,522 EUR (updated evening of 12 August 2024)

Need to raise: €1,500 EUR (about $1,752 USD)

A more full explanation of Mohammed’s situation can be found here

Hello, I am Muhammad Al-Hubail, the son of the martyr and my martyr brother, from G… Mohammed Alhabil needs your support for Please help me

NOTE: I am unable to effectively fundraise for Mohammed. We are urgently hoping for bloggers who will be able to devote time and attention to promoting his campaign. Please consider making a post for Mohammed to promote his campaign and help him get the treatment he needs.

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We have updated the post with a new temporary goal because Mohammed is in desperate need of treatment for his leg and food for his family!! Please share widely, and donate anything you can!!

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The Sameer Project campaign in the South Gaza needs your support

Their campaign needs about $3,600 to $5,000 every day just to cook 250 meals and prepare 10 pots of lentils or bulgur. Medical work adds another $5,000 every 10 days. Now, water trucks are becoming a top priority—but those come with a hefty price tag too. On top of it all, they have to hire a lot of labor, which has to be paid in cash.

They need to reach at least $10,000 a day for the South campaign to provide some of each of those. Please donate today and share with your family and friends:

**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of w

Other ways to donate include:

p*ypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "South aid")

account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Ali (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "South aid"

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The Sameer Project is also running a medical service point in North Gaza

Medical Care: The Sameer Project in Honor of Mosab Ali

The Sameer Project x Translating Falasteen has been supplying medication, treatments, visits to doctors, wound care, making specialist appointments, physiotherapy, psychotherapy, and collecting documents to facilitate evacuations in both the North, Central, and South of Gaza for one year. Depending on the patient, location, and type of help needed we have been supporting medical care from our North and South campaigns. Now, as the situation is deteriorating and we are stepping up to do more, we have decided to make a focused “Medical Care” campaign. In addition to our South medical point we are opening up a new medical point in the North, in the over crowded and underserved Port Camp. This medical point: the “Translating Falasteen x The Sameer Project Port Camp Medical Point” will have full service care including a doctor, nurses, a dentist, and a physiotherapist. After the initial installation costs it will be approximately $20,000 to keep it up and running and medication in stock.

if you donate you will quite literally be helping to keep people alive! you will also get the option of getting postcards, books, or a handmade necklace in exchange!

Every day I am overwhelmed by the way almost everyone in the global north redefines health away from collective survival and toward promotion of individualism and eugenics.

People will talk about "hygiene" and they mean extensive skin care routines and cosmetics instead of preventing the spread of contagious diseases through requiring structural renovations for better ventilation of workplaces, schools, & public spaces and universal healthcare that includes easy, accessible, free testing & vaccinations.

People will talk about "nutrition" and they mean promoting expensive, restrictive diets dependent on imperial food systems and the promotion of anti-fat and anti-black policies, instead of doing anything to prevent the widespread nutrient deficiencies caused by our government's deliberate, ongoing starvation of Palestinian people.

Even NPR, a publication funded by the United States government, reported this morning that:

"One in three people are no longer eating for days at a time, warns the U.N.'s food program in Gaza. The United Nations says about 100,000 woman and children are severely malnourished in Gaza and need immediate medical care. The international organization Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, says 25% of the pregnant women and children ages six months to five years old whom it has been able to screen in Gaza are malnourished. Even if Gaza's severely malnourished children survive, Farrah from Nasser Hospital worries they will suffer from neurological impairments brought on by starvation. [...] after 21 months of shifting Israeli restrictions on how much and what kind of food can enter Gaza, he is seeing a shortage of significant nutritional elements in children's diets, such as iron, magnesium and calcium, because meat, vegetables and fruit are nearly impossible to obtain. The vitamin and mineral deficiencies "impact the development of a child's heart, liver and circulatory system," he says.

When you are thinking about health and nutrition, I want you to think about the people of Gaza.

When anyone starts a conversation with you about issues of health and nutrition, I want you to talk about the mass starvation of children in Palestine.

Do you have a responsibility to helping others survive? How do you care for the children in your life? The elderly? The disabled? Who is in your circle of care? How wide does it extend?

My friend Mahrah (@mahrahpalestine) and her brother Mahmoud (@palestinian95) Balousha are trying to keep their parents alive.

Their father lives with diabetes, high blood pressure, and osteoporosis. How can he maintain his health with no food and constant stress? Their mother has lost 27 kilos due to starvation.

The Balousha family fundraiser has been vetted by 90-ghost and shared by fairuzfan. The campaign is hosted by @omegaversereloaded, and funds donated are transferred directly from her to the Balousha family. Donating to their campaign is completely safe and urgently necessary.

Donating makes a direct and immediate impact on their family. Every single dollar or euro counts. It matters. Please donate.

YOUNG MOTHER’S LIFE AT RISK‼️

UPDATED SUNDAY 6 JULY 2025

As discussed previously, widowed mother Bshaer has contracted a horrible infection due to drinking water contaminated by the IOF invasion. The infection is aggressive and advancing rapidly. Any day now the infection may spread to her brain, which would almost certainly be fatal.

She currently needs $700 usd to pay for her next round of medication, and the needles she needs to administer it. WITHOUT THESE ANTIBIOTICS, BSHAER WILL DIE.

Please donate anything you can, and share the family's GFM and Chuffed campaigns across all your social media accounts!!

Current: $58,178 out of $58,878 usd

Need to raise: $700 usd

Hello, my name is Reem. I have created this fundraiser in hopes to save my family members from… Reem Shaheen needs your support for Help my

I'm visiting some dear friends of mine this week, and all of us have at least one disability. While we were eating breakfast this morning we were discussing the impact medication has on our lives.

I was sharing how difficult everything was for me when I had moved to a new city where the cost of housing was much more expensive and I couldn't afford medication. Over the course of the year, my energy deteriorated rapidly. First I couldn't keep up with my job, then I couldn't keep up with housework, then I couldn't keep up with basic hygiene, and eventually even chewing and swallowing became difficult. Sometimes walking to the train, I thought about lying down on the side of the road and how long it would take before a cop would force me to move. I wanted to die but I didn't even have the energy to figure out how.

My friend asked me if I had chronic fatigue. I don't know, because I was never diagnosed. I don't claim it because right now I'm very functional. I can keep up with hygiene, cook, clean, do work, and even exercise! But this is only possible from the combination of four different medications. Right now, I am extremely fortunate in that I have much of my medical expenses covered by my wife's health insurance that she has through work. I pay $415 USD every month for these things I need. I can never take this for granted because I know so vividly how difficult it is to survive without them.

It is perhaps evidence of my own self-absorbed perspective, but my own experience of going without medication (feeling first terrified and then hopeless) has made reading about the Israeli strategy of destroying healthcare infrastructure in Palestine particularly vivid and gutting to me.

I remember reading the book From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine and absorbing some fraction of the devastation described by the essay "We Have Lost the Ability to Provide True Care: Three Doctors' Testimonies from Gaza." In this essay, Dr. Reda Abu Assi wrote: "We have lived through seven wars. In each war, we lost coworkers with who, we had memories. In each war, the medical services we were able to provide to patients deteriorated... We have run out of many life-saving drugs; we live on medical aid from abroad, and if it runs out, we have nothing to offer." That was written in October 2023, almost two full years ago.

When I was recovering from surgery earlier this year, I started texting with a guy in Palestine named Fadel (@fadel-dani). Like me, he also struggles with fatigue. For him he has an actual diagnosis--thalassemia, a blood disorder. Like me, he relies on medication for basic functioning, but his medicine is even more expensive than mine-- the equivalent of around $470 USD every month.

A few months after that essay "We Have Lost the Ability to Provide True Care" was written, Fadel experienced firsthand what Dr. Reda Abu Assi described. He survived a bombing of his home, and when he woke in a hospital, he learned they did not even have the supplies needed to remove the shrapnel from his body. They told him that he needed to get to a different country for urgent surgery. He set up a campaign to raise money for it, and had it vetted by @gazavetters (#197) and 90-ghost.

My name is Fadel Al-Dany, a 23-year-old third-year IT student. My life hasn't … Fadel Aldany needs your support for Help the injured Fadel a

A lot of people follow this blog, and I have been trying to help him to get eyes on this campaign. I think about how isolated and defeated I felt when I couldn't afford healthcare, and it breaks my heart that he is experiencing something so much worse.

It's been so long since then, and he has only been able to raise €15,129 (around $17,700 USD) which is no where near enough. In that time, everything has only become more scarce and more expensive. He can't even think about the money from his fundraiser going to surgery, because he spends every month trying to figure out whether to spend the small amount of donations on his medication or on food.

He is in constant chronic pain from the shrapnel in his body, and he is so exhausted he is constantly dizzy and nauseated. I think about how suicidal I was the period of time I was so fatigued, and then I think about how minuscule my experience of exhaustion and hopelessness was in comparison to what Fadel is living with. The worst year of my life would literally be a relief to him in comparison with his current life, and he has no reassurance that there's any end to it. I truly can only imagine the enormity of exhaustion he feels every day.

The only thing that gives him a little bit of hope that this misery might end for him is receiving donations. Every donation reminds him that someone in the world cares that he's suffering and that there are people who believe he matters and deserves relief. I can't convey to you the difference it makes, even a single person caring enough to send a small amount.

My name is Fadel Al-Dany, a 23-year-old third-year IT student. My life hasn't … Fadel Aldany needs your support for Help the injured Fadel a

If my words inspire any empathy or compassion in you at all, please donate something to him this week. Literally even a single dollar or euro makes a difference. You can do that. Leave some encouraging words in your reblog of this post or in the tags. I need to know someone is reading this and cares.

Please encourage others to read and share this post. Encourage them to donate. Add something in the tags. Please engage with what I'm saying here.

I have told you repeatedly that I am in dire need of help, and everyone is ignoring me. I hope you will help me so that I can buy my medicine as soon as possible, and so that we can buy some food so that we do not die of hunger or get killed when we go to get aid. Please have mercy on us and help us with a donation so that I can buy my medicine and some food. Please Donate.

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Please donate!!

Fadel's vetted campaign is just a little over 50% funded! Please continue to share and give what you can to help with his necessities like food and medicine

Please, friends, do not ignore me and leave us alone. Do not forget and ignore what we are going through and what we are suffering from. Please donate to us and do not leave us alone. Please help us, Please Donate.

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Only a little over half the funds have been raised, please continue donating and sharing this post!

Guys, Only 2059 euros left and we will reach our short-term goal 20 thousand euros away from the cost of my surgery. And I will recover from this pain and suffering. I hope that you will donate as much as you can so that I can have my surgery as soon as possible. Please donate.

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Fadel's campaign is at 60% now, please keep sharing and donating.