Update on Eslam and her family’s situation in Gaza

Tumblr staff in all their infinite wisdom (or whatever it is going on over there, frankly I have no clue how they make such impressively bad decisions with such speed and consistency) have decided to delete all of Eslam’s tumblr accounts. Eslam and her family have been using these accounts as a support network during the ongoing war in Gaza. This comes on the heels of gofundme stopping transfers and effectively stealing several hundred dollars worth of donations from Eslam’s family, forcing her to move the fundraiser to Chuffed.

The deletion means that Eslam has lost access to all of her old posts (notably this also means that a significant first hand record of Israeli atrocities over the past 6 months has been destroyed) and that she has lost all of the following that she had relied on previously.

Eslam has expressed concern that she will be accused of being a scammer since she has a new account and fundraiser, which is a reasonable concern noting the continued efforts by various people to de-legitimize Palestinian fundraisers. I can confirm beyond a reasonable doubt that the new account is legitimate, as is the fundraiser on chuffed. Eslam and I have been speaking off of tumblr since before her accounts were banned, and she is the one who asked me to make this post.

I will not list all of Eslam’s new accounts here to avoid them all being banned again, but her main new account is @eslamfamily0. The new fundraiser can be found at the end of this post.

It is apparent that the will of people on this website and elsewhere to help Gazans has been steadily declining since the beginning of winter. I am uncertain why this is, although I have my own guesses, but I must stress that this is not a time to take a break. We have to be there for people like Eslam because nobody else is.

Eslam’s family has been through a lot this past year, and the last few weeks have been nothing but salt in the wound. Please do what you can to help.

I will leave it to Eslam to tell you about herself and her personal situation, because I think she can tell it far better than I can, so I will end this post here.

Thank you my friend ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Gaza is in famine

Hello, I am Eslam from Gaza🍉

a mother of two girls, Hanaa, 5 years old and Alma, 1 year old. We lost everything we own in this genocide. 💔

We miraculously survived this week a surprise Israeli attack on our displacement area, killing more than 40 people 😭😭

Now we are fighting with the tool of starvation. There is nothing in the markets, no vegetables, no fruits, no canned food, no flour to make bread.

If I find a small amount, it is at very high prices.

My children are hungry and cry all the time!

What is the sin of my children that they should be hungry and not find food to satisfy their hunger?!

Please do not leave us alone. Show me your generosity and humanity. You are our lifeline.🙏🫶

@magnus-rhymes-with-swagness @neptunerings @heliopixels @nyxipuff

@el-shab-hussein @ibtisams @90-ghost

🍉🇵🇸 PlEASE DON'T SCROLL 🇵🇸🍉

Look how we have changed and the war has not changed ‼️🥺

It's been a long time ...

Fetuses were born , babies became children, children grew up🥺

Wrinkles appeared, gray lines became clearer, and the absentees are increasing... 😭😭

I lost 11 people from my family and I fear losing more!💔😢

A year has passed and the year has not ended💔💔💔💔💔

A long time has passed, in which we forgot who we are 💔

Please help my children by donate or share 🥺

Please donate to @eslamfamily0 🇵🇸🕊️ She is so kind and deserves so much more than the atrocities she and her family are suffering by Israel.

This is her gofundme: https://chuffed.org/project/119968-help-eslam-save-her-family

Remember that a little can go a very long way!

Artist credits: fricklefracklefloof on ig

Tumblr is removing Eslam's access to her tumblr accounts.

Please follow her new tumblr account @eslamfamily0 and donate here if you can:

https://chuffed.org/project/119968-help-eslam-save-her-family

Thank you my friend for supporting my campaign and new account, it means a lot to me and my family 🫶❤️🫂

Urgent call for help:

Yesterday, my friend Eslam's accounts on tumblr were deleted without warning. She woke up to her network of support being completely cut off from her, and she has asked me to make this post to help get her reach back.

Eslam is a young mother of two, whose life was turned on his head with the israeli occupation's unprecedented aggression towards Gaza. She has lost her home and safety, and is now struggling to make ends meet with the scarcity of resources to secure shelter and food for her daughters, Hanaa and Alma, the latter of which is mere 10 months old.

She's been using tumblr for the better part of 6 months and it has helped tremendously. This cannot be the end of that support system, so I implore you to listen to and share her story, and consider donating funds to help her stay afloat. Her new account is @eslamfamily0

I can fully verify that her plea is genuine and that her family desperately needs the help.

Here's a link to her crowdfund campaign, anything helps.

Thank you for reading.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, my dear friend and supporter. With the kindness of your heart, I wish you a bright future and the fulfillment of your dreams after completing your university studies ❤️❤️

Please donate to @eslamfamily0 🇵🇸🕊️ She is so kind and deserves so much more than the atrocities she and her family are suffering by Israel.

This is her gofundme: https://chuffed.org/project/119968-help-eslam-save-her-family

Remember that a little can go a very long way!

Artist credits: fricklefracklefloof on ig

Tumblr is removing Eslam's access to her tumblr accounts.

Please follow her new tumblr account @eslamfamily0 and donate here if you can:

https://chuffed.org/project/119968-help-eslam-save-her-family

Thank you my friend for supporting my campaign and new account, it means a lot to me and my family 🫶❤️🫂

Please take a second to read and share 🤍🇵🇸

This is Eslam and her husband Rasmi with their two young daughters Alma and Hanaa.

She has been using Tumblr for 6 months to reach out to people and share her story but all of her accounts have suddenly been deleted, which means she has lost all of her followers and supporters.

With the war taking any source of income from them, their house and their car, she has no choice but to rely on donations for her and her family to survive and be able to afford the bare necessities in Gaza, and to eventually evacuate.

Prices for food, diapers, milk and household supplies like detergent and soap in Gaza have absolutely gone through the roof and are impossible to afford without help. Please consider donating. Thank you ❤️

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⬆️this is her new blog!

You can read about Eslam's story there in her own words.

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⬇️this is her instagram account:

https://www.instagram.com/eslamfa95/

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These are some more recent pictures of Alma and Hanaa ❤️

Thank you so much for reading. 🤍

Thank you for your support my wonderful friend, I hope you always stay well, I am happy to have people like you 💖

Urgent call for help:

Yesterday, my friend Eslam's accounts on tumblr were deleted without warning. She woke up to her network of support being completely cut off from her, and she has asked me to make this post to help get her reach back.

Eslam is a young mother of two, whose life was turned on his head with the israeli occupation's unprecedented aggression towards Gaza. She has lost her home and safety, and is now struggling to make ends meet with the scarcity of resources to secure shelter and food for her daughters, Hanaa and Alma, the latter of which is mere 10 months old.

She's been using tumblr for the better part of 6 months and it has helped tremendously. This cannot be the end of that support system, so I implore you to listen to and share her story, and consider donating funds to help her stay afloat. Her new account is @eslamfamily0

I can fully verify that her plea is genuine and that her family desperately needs the help.

Here's a link to her crowdfund campaign, anything helps.

Thank you for reading.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, my dear friend and supporter. With the kindness of your heart, I wish you a bright future and the fulfillment of your dreams after completing your university studies ❤️❤️

Please donate to Eslam family!

“My name is Eslam from Gaza, I’m 29 years old, and I’m a children teacher from Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. a mother of two daughters, Hanaa 5 years old, and Alma, 10 months old. My husband Rasmi is the director of 3 language and training centers. In this war, our house was completely destroyed and razed to the ground, and my husband’s centers were blown up. He lost his job, and we were completely displaced, and we are now homeless and jobless, My two young daughters constantly suffer from diseases due to malnutrition and water pollution.

Danger and death surround us all day and all night. We have lost everything and depend on donations to survive and, most of all, to have any hope of escaping this genocide and evacuating to safety in Egypt. The cost of daily living continues to rise significantly in Gaza - imagine that we cannot find the type of milk for our daughter because of its high price. There is no kind of detergent and this is the cause of skin diseases for my two little girls. We bought a piece of soap for $30! ، and detergent is 100$"

As of 8:46pm November 11, 2024 (GMT+8) $31,955 raised out of $50,000

vetted: bees and watermelon spreadsheet #175

@eslamfa9 @eslamfa8

[ID by @hijab-described: A four panel comic. A woman in a white hijab stands inside a classroom. Text reads, "A year ago, Eslam was teaching children in schools."

Framed family pictures in front of a cracked wall. Text reads, "She was a mother of two girls and her husband was a successful business owner. She had a beautiful home and family."

The four of them, huddled together in front of the ruins of a building. Text reads, "On October 7, 2023, everything changed. In December, Eslam and her family were displaced from their home. Then, her husband's learning center was blown up. By March 2024, Eslam's family had found their home completely destroyed.

Two sleeping children. Text reads, "Eslam's family has been living in a tent ever since. Her daughters have suffered from multiple skin diseases because the costs of soap and food are extremely high. With your help, Eslam's family can have better chances of living, or even evacuating Gaza. Please donate to their campaign if you can." /end ID]

for @eslamfamily3

eslam reached out to me recently asking if i could illustrate her family and of course i said yes. she has been so effortlessly kind to me even though it took me a while to get this finished. please, please listen to her family’s story, share and donate if you can. it would mean the world to us both.

you can visit eslam’s blog @eslamfamily3 for more information, she is also on instagram here.

as of now, eslam’s family has received $7,991 out of their $50,000 goal.

verified on entry #308 on @el-shab-hussein ‘s spreadsheet here.

also verified on entry #175 on the bees and watermelons spreadsheet here.

campaign has also been shared by @90-ghost

1/8/25: all of eslam’s tumblr accounts were deleted.

this is her new account: @eslamfamily0

please continue to support eslam on this new platform, she’s been receiving a lot of pushback from various platforms lately and it has been very hard on her family.

this is also the new fundraiser she’s been using:

gofundme has put a hold on transferring funds to eslam in gaza for over a month and a half now, so she has had to turn to a new platform to continue to support her family. please support this new campaign!

thank you so much.

Please donate to @eslamfamily0 🇵🇸🕊️ She is so kind and deserves so much more than the atrocities she and her family are suffering by Israel.

This is her gofundme: https://chuffed.org/project/119968-help-eslam-save-her-family

Remember that a little can go a very long way!

Artist credits: fricklefracklefloof on ig

Tumblr is removing Eslam's access to her tumblr accounts.

Please follow her new tumblr account @eslamfamily0 and donate here if you can:

https://chuffed.org/project/119968-help-eslam-save-her-family

Thank you my friend for supporting my campaign and new account, it means a lot to me and my family 🫶❤️🫂

Please take a second to read and share 🤍🇵🇸

This is Eslam and her husband Rasmi with their two young daughters Alma and Hanaa.

She has been using Tumblr for 6 months to reach out to people and share her story but all of her accounts have suddenly been deleted, which means she has lost all of her followers and supporters.

With the war taking any source of income from them, their house and their car, she has no choice but to rely on donations for her and her family to survive and be able to afford the bare necessities in Gaza, and to eventually evacuate.

Prices for food, diapers, milk and household supplies like detergent and soap in Gaza have absolutely gone through the roof and are impossible to afford without help. Please consider donating. Thank you ❤️

_________________________________________________________

⬆️this is her new blog!

You can read about Eslam's story there in her own words.

_________________________________________________________

⬇️this is her instagram account:

https://www.instagram.com/eslamfa95/

_________________________________________________________

These are some more recent pictures of Alma and Hanaa ❤️

Thank you so much for reading. 🤍

Thank you for your support my wonderful friend, I hope you always stay well, I am happy to have people like you 💖

Urgent call for help:

Yesterday, my friend Eslam's accounts on tumblr were deleted without warning. She woke up to her network of support being completely cut off from her, and she has asked me to make this post to help get her reach back.

Eslam is a young mother of two, whose life was turned on his head with the israeli occupation's unprecedented aggression towards Gaza. She has lost her home and safety, and is now struggling to make ends meet with the scarcity of resources to secure shelter and food for her daughters, Hanaa and Alma, the latter of which is mere 10 months old.

She's been using tumblr for the better part of 6 months and it has helped tremendously. This cannot be the end of that support system, so I implore you to listen to and share her story, and consider donating funds to help her stay afloat. Her new account is @eslamfamily0

I can fully verify that her plea is genuine and that her family desperately needs the help.

Here's a link to her crowdfund campaign, anything helps.

Thank you for reading.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, my dear friend and supporter. With the kindness of your heart, I wish you a bright future and the fulfillment of your dreams after completing your university studies ❤️❤️

PLEASE STOP AND LOOK ! HELP MY FAMILY 💙

‼️ VERY IMPORTANT ‼️

HELLO MY SUPPORTIVE FRINDS ❤️

I hope you are all well, I need your support and assistance again, I have full hope in you, you are my remaining lifeline ❤️

unfortunately due to GFM's policy against the Gazans, it has stopped transferring money to me from 11/25 until this moment, and is procrastinating under the verification clause, and now I need your support and donations so that I and my children can benefit urgently and stay alive, so I created a new campaign on the chuffed website, because I fear that the previous campaign will be deleted 💔💔

‼️ VETTED HERE ‼️

Bees and watermelons line #175 click here

@el-shab-hussein line #308 click here

@90-ghost click here

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO WILL SUPPORT MY NEW CAMPAIN .🦋🦋

@a-shade-of-blue @dlxxv-vetted-donations @90-ghost @fricklefracklefloof

As of 01:10 GMT on 5 January 2025, Eslam's vetted GFM campaign is up to $57,451 / $100,000, but GoFundMe is preventing her from accessing the funds! (This has recently happened to several Palestinian families.)

She has a new Chuffed campaign that is now up to $3,723 / $100,000.