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My friends Mahmoud and Mahrah are siblings from Gaza. I have been friends with Mahrah since early 2025. She introduced me to her brother later that year, and I introduced both of them to my wife. We have a group chat together. My wife (@cannilyuncanny) now hosts their family's fundraiser (vetted by 90-ghost and shared by fairuzfan) and wires transfers of donations directly to Mahrah.

I am texting with Mahmoud right now as I write this, and I want to assure anyone who needs the assurance that @freepaleatine955 is the shared blog of Mahmoud and Mahrah. They previously posted from palestinian95, and before that from mahrahpalestine. Recently, tumblr staff have been aggressively targeting Palestinian blogs and deleting them. Many people are having to recreate blogs and rebuild their networks.

Please share widely so others can find them!

Eid Mubarak

The photo above was taken today in Gaza City as people gathered for morning prayers to celebrate Eid al-Fitr this year. This celebration is inextricable from mourning. Israel has destroyed 1,109 out of Gaza's 1,244 mosques, so residents were forced to perform Eid prayers in small open-air prayer spaces, streets, or tents in displacement centers.

The quote over this image was said to me today by my friend Mahmoud. He has been separated from his family in Gaza, unable to return to them for three years due to Israel's control over crossings. For three years he has only been able to have a phone call with his family on this holiday to send them love and peace. He has not been able to hug them or share a meal with them.

Eid al-Fitr is a festival of breaking the fast, but in Gaza it remains extremely difficult to afford enough food due to merchants raising prices in response to Israeli imposed border-closures. I asked how his family is faring and he said that they send their love and "they, by God, depend on what you send from the campaign. They currently have no source of income other than donations."

Please continue to send donations to Mahmoud's family. My wife @cannilyuncanny hosts the campaign and transfers all donations directly to his sister Mahrah (@mahrahpalestine) in Gaza. The campaign is vetted by @90-ghost and was shared by fairuzfan.

Mahmoud's words express his resilient belief in Palestinian liberation. His conviction is powerful and meaningful to me. Please hold this love and hope in your hearts today. <3

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VETTED CAMPAIGN DELETED BY GFM AND NEEDING TO RAISE FUNDS FROM SCRATCH

GFM unjustly terminated Fidaa's @fidaa-family2 campaign and she lost all of the funds she'd raised so far to help evacuate her family. She has to start all over with a new campaign.

Fidaa's campaign has been vetted here and here. Please consider donating to her if you have anything at all to give. Small dollar amounts can add up so never think you won't make a difference! If you have enough to buy a cup of coffee, consider skipping it to give to Fidaa instead. Imagine how frustrating it would be after months of fundraising to lose what you've worked hard for. We need to show Fidaa our support now more than ever!

Fidaa and her beautiful kids Sila and Hamoud are raising money to survive the genocide in Gaza. Whether these funds go to food (prices are s

You can also donate through Paypal directly.

Please reblog & share this post even if you aren't able to donate. Let's help this fundraiser reach as many people as possible. <3

almondmilkhunnis

Fidaa has established a new campaign after scammers hacked into her old campaign, and she was forced to close it. She has to start from scratch once again with a new campaign and needs our help more than ever. Please consider donating to Fidaa and her beautiful children Sila and Hamoud.

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.

sporesgalaxy

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

beserkerjewel

Please reblog and donate if u can!

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please donate

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.

685 euros short

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

beserkerjewel

Please help! No one deserves this!

cauli-flawa

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.

hi there <3 im a Black nonbinary lesbian artist 🥺🫶🏽 got an autoimmune disorder diagnosis last week that may explain the years of rapid dental health decline & chronic pain. been seeking medical services for years, currently waiting to see a specialist. been in a lot of pain, affecting my mobility & i havent been able to sleep or eat much. grateful for any help <3 c4$h4pp v3nm0 p4yp4l k0fi

account is still in the negative, havent been able to take my pain meds or afford tampons or toilet paper or cat litter. genuinely grateful for even $1 or a kind word <3

hey can i get some help. even $1 or a kind word will go a long way <3

joint pain has been so bad today ive had trouble standing, please. even $1 will help <3

ik this has a lot of notes but i genuinely am grateful for even $1. been struggling with my mobility really badly, trying not to internalize that shame, genuinely grateful for any help <3

nooralanqar3

The first rain of this winter today drowned us in just ten minutes.

Torn tents, and bodies with no shelter.

The war has ended… but its suffering has not.

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Don’t say there’s no need to donate, and don’t believe that our suffering has ended.

We still need you… your compassion and your support.

Please, don’t leave us.

Please read this. It's important. On August 7, Israel's security cabinet approved Netanyahu's plan to occupy the rest of Gaza and forcibly displace the population to the south, where they will be expelled from Palestine into other countries. This is a final push of the genocide.

Yesterday (August 20), Israel's military spokesperson announced mobilization of another 60,000 reservists and stated plainly "We have begin preliminary operations and the first stages of the attack on Gaza City." Al Jazeera reported that the Israeli military killed at least 81 Palestinians yesterday alone.

The cost of displacement is too high for my friend Mahrah and her family to manage, and the infrastructure and resources are already destroyed in the south where they are being forced under threat of death.

If the Israeli military can succeed in its occupation of Gaza, it will mean no shelter or safety for the rest of their lives.

@mahrahpalestine wrote to me, "Many consequences and indescribable feelings come with the risk of displacement and re-displacement. No one can imagine the difficult psychological state we are going through now: anxiety, fear, and tension."

Please, donate anything you can so they can survive. Her family's fundraising has been vetted by 90-ghost and shared by fairuzfan.

You can donate to her family's campaign here:

GoFundMe (hosted by @cannilyuncanny)

Chuffed (hosted by @omegaversereloaded)

aboodgaza0

We are living in a famine. I haven’t eaten in three days so my family could have something in the morning. Today I felt dizzy and nauseous. My mother rushed me to the hospital but they couldn’t admit me. Too many people like me are collapsing from hunger.

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I added salt to water and drank it just to stay conscious. I can no longer get up to help my family. I have nothing left but these words on Tumblr. If these words reach you I ask with all my heart for any form of support our survival depends on it.

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.

mahrahpalestine

we are hungry. The occupation promotes that it is bringing in aid, but in reality, only a few trucks have entered, and it directs agents and those who work with it to steal them... so that the people remain hungry

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I'm doing all of this so that if I die, people will still remember me.

I want my photos to be in every city I've ever dreamed of visiting and couldn’t

hi, could anyone help me out w getting some food for me & my emotional support animal. been in debilitating pain, unmedicated for days not sure when ill be able to get up c4$h4pp v3nm0 p4yp4l

been sick all week, they still havent sent my pain meds, rlly hungry. even $1 will go a long way <3

barishal

What does the smartphones, laptops, TVs, smart watches, and smart cars have in common? They have cobalt. It is a metal found in lithium batteries. Because of this, it is illegally sourced from DR Congo. Children as young as six years old are mining it!

At the same time, rebel groups are fighting over the area, violating the ceasefire, and inflicting extreme violence against the civilians. Families are starving. A genocide is taking place! We need to make some noise for DR Congo! Boycott the latest gadgets from tech companies, donate to fundraisers and organizations, and protest!

Consider helping out Barnabé! He is a student who is going through loss of his mother, his only family member, and he has been suffering from kidney failure over the past 3 years! He is all alone, and he needs a transplant as soon as soon possible! Please donate and share. You can match me. I have given €10, but you're more than welcome to contribute any amount!

Bonjour, Barnabé est un jeune étudiant congolais de Goma, dont … Rachel Malengo needs your support for Faites un don svp pour aider Barnabé

Verification: His fundraiser is set up and vetted by Agissons Ensemble, a grassroots organization in Goma, DR Congo. They provide aid and support to displaced families on the ground. Click here to check out the link.tree!

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SudanFunds is a grassroots platform supporting aid for the people of Sudan.

Reminder that Sudan-Funds shares multiple campaigns that are in need as Sudan faces one of the most frightening man-made starvations in history

It's been about two weeks since Samar was killed by the Israeli occupation. Her husband is left to raise their children without her. This family has been suffering from illness, scarcity, and repeated displacements after the destruction of their home. Helping Mohammed afford food for himself and his children is something that we can tangibly do, even from miles away, that will help take a little bit of the stress out of his situation.

You can help via GoFundMe

or via:

Venmo: gothhabiba Paypal: paypal.me/Najia Cashapp: $NajiaK

all with note "🍓" or "strawberry"

$0 / $200 (for Fri, Aug 1)

$112 / $200

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Sudan is its third (3rd) year in the genocide. There has been no ceasefire as of yet. Famine is bleeding the country dry. Al-Fashir, the capital city of North Dafur, is under siege! The RSF, also known as the Rapid Support Forces, paramilitary backed by the UAE, have taken control! They restricting aid! No food is allowed!

Many families are starving. They are eating animal feed! Can you believe it! Animal feed! Please make some noise for Sudan. Boycott the UAE, donate to fundraisers and organizations, and protest!

Consider helping this family of 13. They have been raising funds to evacuate for 2 years, but donations have been painfully slow to the point the family have decided to lower their goal from 20K to 10K so they can pay rent and purchase essentials, such as food, medicine, and supplies! Please donate and share. There is $3,647 left to go! You can match me! I have given $5, but you're more than welcome to give any amount!

Hello, my name is Daniel Schroeder from Colorado, USA and I a… Daniel Schroeder needs your support for The Conflict Is Still Ongoing, Save M

This fundraiser is vetted by sudanfunds.com!

Ghina, Saba and Qusay Abu Alwan are children who are growing up throughout genocide and famine. The younger twins, Saba and Qusay, should still be breastfeeding: but manufactured malnutrition took their mother from them. You can help feed them by donating via:

Gofundme

or

Venmo: gothhabiba Paypal: paypal.me/Najia Cashapp: $NajiaK

all with note "🍓" or "strawberry"

$27 / $200 (for Tue, Jul 29)

🍓 $37 / $200 🍓

boobieteriat

If you can eat and drink, sleep in a bed, read these words, and have a bank account—you have the power to help. Don’t stay silent. Do something for Gaza today.

The Sameer Project

Dahnoun Mutual Aid

Mona's Initiative

Hussein Team

Water is Life Gaza

I am struggling to put my thoughts into words. I don't know how to focus lately on anything while so many people are starving to death in Gaza.

I am finding myself texting my family members and my friends and my local community organizing networks apologizing for disappearing, for failing to respond to messages, for forgetting to check in. I was laid off from my job a while ago, and have not received a single interview. How can I justify writing cover letters when I could be writing fundraisers? But how can I not when my wife needs me to find a source of income so that we can pay rent.

When I write about Palestine, it is the only thing that feels important in my life. But then I fear that people do not read it, and I fear they stop reading as soon as they realize I am talking about Palestine. What can I write so that you will feel my (imperfect, flawed) humanity through them, and not let go when I ask you to hold the humanity of the people of Gaza too?

Many hands make light work, but there needs to be a hell of a lot more hands here. It's heavy right now, but the more people do something, the easier it becomes for every single person trying to act. Please do not fear the weight of this. We need you.

"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation. They are expensive, inefficient and can even kill starving civilians."

- Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, on July 26, 2025

“This is not a warning, this is a call to action. This is unlike anything we have seen in this century"

- Ross Smith, UN World Food Programme (WFP) director of emergencies, published by the United Nations news on July 29, 2025.

"Despite the overwhelming evidence of rampant malnutrition and growing deaths from starvation, Gaza remains all but sealed off. At the IRC, we have several tons of life-saving medical supplies ready and waiting to enter—enough to treat thousands and bolster a health system that is collapsing under the weight of war and deprivation. These supplies sit idle. Hospitals are either destroyed or overwhelmed. Fuel is scarce. Food prices have surged by 700%. Gaza’s essential services have collapsed... This is not a crisis that demands more data. It demands more determination... The world knows what is happening in Gaza. The cost of delay will be measured in the lives of children lost."

- David Miliband, "How To Stop Gazans From Dying of Starvation Right Now" published on July 30, 2025

"Stressing that malnutrition has been rising rapidly in the first half of July, the report found that over 20,000 children have been admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition between April and mid-July, with more than 3,000 severely malnourished... Hospitals have reported a rapid increase in hunger-related deaths of children aged under 5, with at least 16 reported deaths since July 17"

- Palestine Chronicle, on July 30, 2025