I was just talking to Ahmed @90-ghost (alongside Av, who might be reading this, idk if they’d like to be part of this post tho). He has given me permission to write a post about our conversation.

This whole thing has gotten Ahmed to the point where he admits he’s started to hate tumblr after 12 years of being on here. He has over 3k messages in his inbox and can’t handle it right now, his brother and other family members are still in Gaza and he himself doesn’t have the money to help them out. I’ve noticed that donations have slowed among palestinian fundraisers in general, before this whole debacle that a few individuals on this site started. this is anecdotal, but I know Ahmed gets like $30-$50 per week in donations at this point, and that barely makes a dent in his and his family’s needs. Remember that people in Gaza need to pay massively inflated prices for what basic necessities are available right now. I think things are looking pretty dire to the people who would like to flee Gaza but don’t have the money. It already was dire that Egyptian government, working in lockstep with Israel and the west, charges $5k+ to Ghazzawis. Hala Agency, Ibrahim Al-Argani, and the other scumbags running the Egyptian state are all demons and they’ve lined their pockets throughout this genocide. But I digress—it was dire already and now the enthusiastic aid that helped people like Ahmed seems to have run dry.

All that is to say: Ahmed can’t continue to verify peoples’ documents or promote their fundraisers at this stage. He’s privately talked to hundreds of Ghazzawis and looked at their IDs, and he was the only person doing it for a while (a very small handful of other Palestinian users on here were doing it, but they’ve also gotten overwhelmed and stopped). When he was in Gaza, Ahmed was displaced multiple times, left sleeping in tents or on the streets while in active physical danger, starving, forced to drink unsafe water, and often sick. It’s not an exaggeration to say that his body and mind have been pushed to the limit. When he told me he’s depressed all day after doing this work while attracting a ton of negativity, I told him he’s allowed to stop for the sake of his own health, because frankly he needs to focus on his physical recovery. There’s nothing selfish about that, it’s not sustainable for him to be doing this, particularly not when he’s still under the immense stress of his brother and other relatives remaining in Gaza and relying on him for help.

Since I know people will ask: I currently don’t know of anyone on tumblr who still vets fundraisers. Everyone I know of who did has had to stop. I don’t know about the inner workings of Operation Olive Branch, but they seem to be one of a few collectives with enough members to distribute this work. It IS work, and those of us who have tried to do it have done so with a low failure rate (el-shab-hussein and nabulsi’s spreadsheet had over 200 entries and they misidentified a scam as legitimate ONCE). I hope everyone will be more considerate towards the people at collectives like OOB.

This has always been a matter of personal discretion. The vetting process some users tried to implement on here is meant to help people who want to help and accept the risk of offering aid to strangers. If you don’t trust bloggers who’ve been proudly Palestinian on this site for years, that’s up to you—genuinely, it’s fair to think “I don’t know this person and I don’t know what standards they’re operating on.” In the future, anyone who has such concerns should consider asking good-faith questions to the people involved and to converse with them like adults before jumping to accusations, conspiratorial posts, etc.

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there are resources beyond those on tumblr for people to find campaigns to contribute to-- here's a list of several grassroot orgs i've come across. i'm sure there's more out there. what y'all do with this information is up to you

el-shab-hussein + nabulsi's google sheet

operation olive branch

gazafunds

operation poppy flower (now also linked in oob's sheet)

operation watermelon

project watermelon

strawberry seeds collective

ottawa4palestine

camps breakerz crew

gofund(water)me(lons) | linktree

flowersfromfalasteen | linktree

the butterflyeffect project

bees and watermelons | linktree

Disclaimer that this is a post mostly motivated by frustration at a cultural trend, not at any individual people/posters. Vagueing to avoid it seeming like a callout but I know how Tumblr is so we'll see I guess. Putting it after a read-more because I think it's going to spiral out of control.

My friends I wish you a good time.

I moved the campaign to another country due to the high tax rate on the old campaign, and I hope you will help us spread the link to the new campaign because the old campaign is closed We are now starting from a late point, but my family will not give up, and they all trust you, our friends. You are the light that illuminates the path of my family and children towards a new life, we deserve the best My family and children ask you to donate first and we hope to reach our first goal of raising 10.000 euros as soon as possible. Secondly, you can help us spread our story, create a private post for my family in your blogs, or pin our story in your blogs, please get our message out to the world. This video shows my children's daily struggles in getting water instead of getting an education and the right to life.Please watch the video to the end and post it as much as possible

And this is the new donation link:🍉🙏🍉

I hope you will stand by my family, as my children need your support and donations. As winter approaches, my family and children need clothes and bedding. Living in a tent is difficult. Donate and support us. We may be able to rent a house to shelter us from the cold.

vetted by @littlegermanboy @90-ghost @sayruq @ @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #127 ) @arroe 

My friends I wish you a good time.

I moved the campaign to another country due to the high tax rate on the old campaign, and I hope you will help us spread the link to the new campaign because the old campaign is closed We are now starting from a late point, but my family will not give up, and they all trust you, our friends. You are the light that illuminates the path of my family and children towards a new life, we deserve the best My family and children ask you to donate first and we hope to reach our first goal of raising 10.000 euros as soon as possible. Secondly, you can help us spread our story, create a private post for my family in your blogs, or pin our story in your blogs, please get our message out to the world. This video shows my children's daily struggles in getting water instead of getting an education and the right to life.Please watch the video to the end and post it as much as possible

And this is the new donation link:🍉🙏🍉

I hope you will stand by my family, as my children need your support and donations. As winter approaches, my family and children need clothes and bedding. Living in a tent is difficult. Donate and support us. We may be able to rent a house to shelter us from the cold.

vetted by @littlegermanboy @90-ghost @sayruq @ @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #127 ) @arroe 

My friends I wish you a good time.

I moved the campaign to another country due to the high tax rate on the old campaign, and I hope you will help us spread the link to the new campaign because the old campaign is closed We are now starting from a late point, but my family will not give up, and they all trust you, our friends. You are the light that illuminates the path of my family and children towards a new life, we deserve the best My family and children ask you to donate first and we hope to reach our first goal of raising 10.000 euros as soon as possible. Secondly, you can help us spread our story, create a private post for my family in your blogs, or pin our story in your blogs, please get our message out to the world. This video shows my children's daily struggles in getting water instead of getting an education and the right to life.Please watch the video to the end and post it as much as possible

And this is the new donation link:🍉🙏🍉

I hope you will stand by my family, as my children need your support and donations. As winter approaches, my family and children need clothes and bedding. Living in a tent is difficult. Donate and support us. We may be able to rent a house to shelter us from the cold.

vetted by @littlegermanboy @90-ghost @sayruq @ @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #127 ) @arroe 

U know the moment we reblog this, three years from now a whole hoard of reblogs will crop up with ‘this aged poorly’ in the tags right

Don't mind me just *schedules this for dour years from now*

My friends I wish you a good time.

I moved the campaign to another country due to the high tax rate on the old campaign, and I hope you will help us spread the link to the new campaign because the old campaign is closed We are now starting from a late point, but my family will not give up, and they all trust you, our friends. You are the light that illuminates the path of my family and children towards a new life, we deserve the best My family and children ask you to donate first and we hope to reach our first goal of raising 10.000 euros as soon as possible. Secondly, you can help us spread our story, create a private post for my family in your blogs, or pin our story in your blogs, please get our message out to the world. This video shows my children's daily struggles in getting water instead of getting an education and the right to life.Please watch the video to the end and post it as much as possible

And this is the new donation link:🍉🙏🍉

I hope you will stand by my family, as my children need your support and donations. As winter approaches, my family and children need clothes and bedding. Living in a tent is difficult. Donate and support us. We may be able to rent a house to shelter us from the cold.

vetted by @littlegermanboy @90-ghost @sayruq @ @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #127 ) @arroe 

My friends I wish you a good time.

I moved the campaign to another country due to the high tax rate on the old campaign, and I hope you will help us spread the link to the new campaign because the old campaign is closed We are now starting from a late point, but my family will not give up, and they all trust you, our friends. You are the light that illuminates the path of my family and children towards a new life, we deserve the best My family and children ask you to donate first and we hope to reach our first goal of raising 10.000 euros as soon as possible. Secondly, you can help us spread our story, create a private post for my family in your blogs, or pin our story in your blogs, please get our message out to the world. This video shows my children's daily struggles in getting water instead of getting an education and the right to life.Please watch the video to the end and post it as much as possible

And this is the new donation link:🍉🙏🍉

I hope you will stand by my family, as my children need your support and donations. As winter approaches, my family and children need clothes and bedding. Living in a tent is difficult. Donate and support us. We may be able to rent a house to shelter us from the cold.

vetted by @littlegermanboy @90-ghost @sayruq @ @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #127 ) @arroe 

My friends I wish you a good time.

I moved the campaign to another country due to the high tax rate on the old campaign, and I hope you will help us spread the link to the new campaign because the old campaign is closed We are now starting from a late point, but my family will not give up, and they all trust you, our friends. You are the light that illuminates the path of my family and children towards a new life, we deserve the best My family and children ask you to donate first and we hope to reach our first goal of raising 10.000 euros as soon as possible. Secondly, you can help us spread our story, create a private post for my family in your blogs, or pin our story in your blogs, please get our message out to the world. This video shows my children's daily struggles in getting water instead of getting an education and the right to life.Please watch the video to the end and post it as much as possible

And this is the new donation link:🍉🙏🍉

I hope you will stand by my family, as my children need your support and donations. As winter approaches, my family and children need clothes and bedding. Living in a tent is difficult. Donate and support us. We may be able to rent a house to shelter us from the cold.

vetted by @littlegermanboy @90-ghost @sayruq @ @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #127 ) @arroe 

My friends I wish you a good time.

I moved the campaign to another country due to the high tax rate on the old campaign, and I hope you will help us spread the link to the new campaign because the old campaign is closed We are now starting from a late point, but my family will not give up, and they all trust you, our friends. You are the light that illuminates the path of my family and children towards a new life, we deserve the best My family and children ask you to donate first and we hope to reach our first goal of raising 10.000 euros as soon as possible. Secondly, you can help us spread our story, create a private post for my family in your blogs, or pin our story in your blogs, please get our message out to the world. This video shows my children's daily struggles in getting water instead of getting an education and the right to life.Please watch the video to the end and post it as much as possible

And this is the new donation link:🍉🙏🍉

I hope you will stand by my family, as my children need your support and donations. As winter approaches, my family and children need clothes and bedding. Living in a tent is difficult. Donate and support us. We may be able to rent a house to shelter us from the cold.

vetted by @littlegermanboy @90-ghost @sayruq @ @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #127 ) @arroe 

My friends I wish you a good time.

I moved the campaign to another country due to the high tax rate on the old campaign, and I hope you will help us spread the link to the new campaign because the old campaign is closed We are now starting from a late point, but my family will not give up, and they all trust you, our friends. You are the light that illuminates the path of my family and children towards a new life, we deserve the best My family and children ask you to donate first and we hope to reach our first goal of raising 10.000 euros as soon as possible. Secondly, you can help us spread our story, create a private post for my family in your blogs, or pin our story in your blogs, please get our message out to the world. This video shows my children's daily struggles in getting water instead of getting an education and the right to life.Please watch the video to the end and post it as much as possible

And this is the new donation link:🍉🙏🍉

I hope you will stand by my family, as my children need your support and donations. As winter approaches, my family and children need clothes and bedding. Living in a tent is difficult. Donate and support us. We may be able to rent a house to shelter us from the cold.

vetted by @littlegermanboy @90-ghost @sayruq @ @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #127 ) @arroe 

My friends I wish you a good time.

I moved the campaign to another country due to the high tax rate on the old campaign, and I hope you will help us spread the link to the new campaign because the old campaign is closed We are now starting from a late point, but my family will not give up, and they all trust you, our friends. You are the light that illuminates the path of my family and children towards a new life, we deserve the best My family and children ask you to donate first and we hope to reach our first goal of raising 10.000 euros as soon as possible. Secondly, you can help us spread our story, create a private post for my family in your blogs, or pin our story in your blogs, please get our message out to the world. This video shows my children's daily struggles in getting water instead of getting an education and the right to life.Please watch the video to the end and post it as much as possible

And this is the new donation link:🍉🙏🍉

I hope you will stand by my family, as my children need your support and donations. As winter approaches, my family and children need clothes and bedding. Living in a tent is difficult. Donate and support us. We may be able to rent a house to shelter us from the cold.

vetted by @littlegermanboy @90-ghost @sayruq @ @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #127 ) @arroe 

My friends I wish you a good time.

I moved the campaign to another country due to the high tax rate on the old campaign, and I hope you will help us spread the link to the new campaign because the old campaign is closed We are now starting from a late point, but my family will not give up, and they all trust you, our friends. You are the light that illuminates the path of my family and children towards a new life, we deserve the best My family and children ask you to donate first and we hope to reach our first goal of raising 10.000 euros as soon as possible. Secondly, you can help us spread our story, create a private post for my family in your blogs, or pin our story in your blogs, please get our message out to the world. This video shows my children's daily struggles in getting water instead of getting an education and the right to life.Please watch the video to the end and post it as much as possible

And this is the new donation link:🍉🙏🍉

I hope you will stand by my family, as my children need your support and donations. As winter approaches, my family and children need clothes and bedding. Living in a tent is difficult. Donate and support us. We may be able to rent a house to shelter us from the cold.

vetted by @littlegermanboy @90-ghost @sayruq @ @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #127 ) @arroe 

Doing this again cus I still need help urgently and maybe an inclusion of my personal descriptors would incentivize people to help. I'm a bipoc lesbian with a severe mental illness who needs about 900 USD by November 7th to pay off cumulative loans that my loan company screwed me over on when I tried to pay last week. I am filing a dispute against them, but that can take months and I don't have that time to wait.

Cshpp is $markers111 (don't have anything else. Sorry)

55/900$

105/900$

Here is a picture of my friend Fidaa’s baby girl, Sila. Sila and her baby brother Muhammed are currently stuck in a situation so horrible that words struggle to describe it. 

Fidaa, (@fidaa-family2) the mother of these beautiful children, is a 29-year-old woman from Gaza who, during the war, was separated from her entire family and is currently being forced to take care of her two children, completely alone. 

Her children are both sick from the cold and the encroaching spread of diseases, and they are all in pain. She has been displaced with her children many, many times, each time having to dip into her precious evacuation funds to buy transportation. 

Every time she is displaced, she is forced to buy a new tent, which as we know costs $1,500… 

This makes her evacuation funds absolutely instrumental for her and her two small children’s survival, two children who I will now remind you are sick, hurting, and starving in a situation that nobody could have ever predicted. 

These conditions are absolutely catastrophic. They are apocalyptic. No child, no mother, no person should ever have to go through this. 

You can help. 

You can help by donating and sharing so that Fidaa is not forced to struggle any longer. All she hopes for is to get enough money to evacuate to Cairo so that she no longer is forced to rely on the black market for things as simple as food. 

Please, take time out of your day to donate to Fidaa. Her campaign is going extremely slowly, and needs your help. 

Please help Fidaa and her children out of this hell. They, like all human beings, deserve safety, comfort, and warmth, and you now have a way to help provide these things to them. 

Fidaa has been verified here and here. 

DONATE HERE: 

tagging under the cut for reach:

reminder to donate to this campaign if you can. the situation in gaza is absolutely horrific. this can make a big difference for her family

My dear, don't let me down, please. We deserve life and we deserve your generosity and compassion towards us. You are our lifeline, and with your generosity you give us life, even if it is a little, but you relieve us of injustice and cursed war. You are hope and life again. Be side by side, hand in hand. We will make a big difference. With faith, strength, will and determination, we will reach the goal. We are very close. I hope you will participate and contribute if you can.💜🇵🇸🍉🍉💐💐

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