Update since the last post. These pictures speak for themselves! Mona's work is a testament to her generosity and her dedication to her community. And you can help her keep this going! Please consider donating to help the people of Khan Younis!!! Remember, every dollar counts! P*ypal.

Fundraiser for the distribution of basic necessities in Ghazzah.

G*f*ndme for Mona's family

G*f*ndme for Mona's sister and niece

Instagram to keep track of progress.

(If you live in India or Pakistan and want to donate, contact her through the means listed on her account).

None of this is possible without Mona and her family's diligence and work. If you would like to send her a thank you note or well wishes, please include it in the replies to this post, in your tags, or in the comments! She always appreciates them ♡

here are two of my current difficulties. the first is personal. i listened to a lecture by salman rushdie recently where he said that many things are too horrific for people to understand directly, and so sometimes address it obliquely or indirectly can actually end up conveying the magnitude of the reality more effectively than you might have if you described it bluntly. in other words some things are too horrific to look at face-on. it's why books and character profiles and poetry are more effective and more mobilizing than raw data. its the function of narrative. my own problem is that i don't know if i have the ability to do so right now. which is pretty embarrassing, because it's more or less my job. like yesterday i watched a video of a palestinian man cradling his child's head. just her head. how do you address this indirectly? i know all the arguments for and against videos like this. but also that man had to cradle his daughter's head and people had to be there and film it, in a room full of dead kids. that was someone's real life. this happened two days ago, and it could be people i know this is happening to next. it could be my friends. attempting to address this indirectly feels like an impossible task. they create a reality too awful to endure, and then they demand that we reduce it so that the onlookers can endure the experience of knowing about it.

but the debate of whether or not to share videos like that, the humanizing vs dehumanizing aspects of it and so on, brings me to my second problem, which is impersonal. it's that even if i share it most people won't see it. because of algorithms that are paid for by the same people who beheaded that man's child, because of compassion fatigue, and also because of fear that solidarity with palestinians is going to result in real-life consequences. things that have been there before, but are even more present now.

these two difficulties are not insurmountable to me. i can get better at describing things, at demanding your attention. we can find things to look at that don't overload our brains or our hearts, the oblique view that will bring everything else into focus. and in doing so we can navigate the second obstacle, which is everything that prevents your attention and your compassion. the 'you' implied here is the you reading this post, but it is also everyone who is not in that video, really. it's also myself.

because i haven't yet figured out a way around this, here's a short documentary you should watch about israeli soldiers sniping children in the head, a phenomenon first reported from palestinians fleeing quadcopter fire, later covered in the new york times in an op-ed by american doctors who operated on these children, and now brought to you with footage directly from gaza.

Hey, oomfies! This Eid, let’s spread some more love to Gaza. Grassroots orgs there are doing incredible work despite the many limitations...getting food, meds, and shelter to families who’ve lost everything. Even a few bucks can make a real difference. Donate the cost of a coffee!

Campaign for Palestinian Poet and Songwriter Yaser Hamad

Hello All,

My friend @mariampoetry wanted to host a donation campaign for Yaser Hamad!

Yaser is a Rafah native and a prolific poet, writing songs for big name Palestinians singers like Muhammad Assaf (who sang the iconic song, "Dammi Falastini")! Here's a song he wrote for Assaf called "Ya Banat Bladna," which praises the girls and women of Palestine and their steadfastness.

Yaser's fiance was killed early on in the genocide and now he lives in a tent with his two daughters. Within the coming week by Sunday April 6th, we hope to raise $1000 USD to send to Yaser's family.

For those who are not aware, Mariam, the organizer, is a dear friend of mine in real life and a renowned Palestinian poet herself. She has been doing these donation campaigns to raise money for various friends of hers in Gaza, focusing on highlighting artists and their amazing talent. She has successfully sent money to multiple Palestinian artists through these campaign drives and hopes that everyone would be willing to help out with another campaign.

Please do donate if you can, or even just spread the word!

(P*yp*l: @ miriampoet)

After a certain point, the only conclusion a Gazan can make is that there is no humanity left in the world.

How can you believe in kindness when your entire world has turned to rubble twice over? When babies are shot down in front of their mothers by turrets? When you are denied the basics of life: food, water, shelter, and denied even the ability to find them yourself. Death becomes all you know. There is no space, no time, no energy left, with which to believe in kindness. 

But those not in Gaza, we cannot prove them right. We are still here to stand by the Palestinian people, to fight with them, to stand against barbarity, and for the cause of human life. At least, I think so. Why is it so hard to reblog a post? I do not mean to say you are a bad person, or guilt trip, but I ask you that simple question so that you think about the effort it takes for you to save a life. A movement of your thumb. A microsecond of your day. Does that change anything for you? And even more: do you know how much life is held in €5? An amount that can fall out of your pocket is life-sustaining to the people of Gaza, where gas is €80/kilo, where water is just as expensive as oil. 

Ghada Al-Anqar’s campaign sustains the lives of 14 people. The eldest generation, Nabil and Fatima; their children Ghada, Mohamed and his wife, Ahed and his wife, and Khaled, who is engaged; and the children, Fatima, Iman, Nabil, Lama, Amir, and little Noor, who just turned 2. 

Noor cries throughout the night as the bombs once again rain over her head and homeland. War is all she knows. But we have an opportunity to show her, to show the Al-Anqars, to show Gaza herself, that the world is with them. Kindness, love, solidarity will prevail.

Every euro counts. Every reblog counts. More than you could possibly ever know. Thank you for your continued support. Let's keep going.

€15,993/€20,000

26 March 2025

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shayma escaped gaza before the crossing closed and has been struggling to care for her family of 16 in egypt. rent is skyrocketing, and now her brother needs help funding his master's degree. she just lost her childhood friend and her friend's family, she needs support right now.

she didn't ask me to post this, i just wanna show her there's still people out there who care. please help her

My friend is surrounded by the army

The IOF has given my friend Abed @mohmad5 and his wife @safa-abed seven hours to leave before bombing starts.

They are crouched in the rubble of their former home waiting to die.

The road costs $1000 per person. I have no hope of getting him this without help. Please do what you can for him.

Vetted #47 (his wife is also vetted)

I am so thankful that most of my Palestinian family members have survived, but the fact that some of them didn't (one of whom was a child only fifteen when he died) will weigh on my soul forever. And even through that suffering I know I am fortunate, for many more people have lost their families entirely, and even more have been killed. There isn't anything I can say that hasn't been already said, but please keep Palestinians in your heart in the coming days, and in the years after. Don't forget what has happened.

And I am even more fortunate that my family has the means and connections to rebound after this travesty. Many families do not have this luxury. Consider turning your attentions to those who need urgent help, such as this family, who is not even 20% to their goal.

If you are going to reblog this, I would appreciate it if you didn't tag it with any trigger warnings. Suffering and death of this nature is not something for you to look away from.

Please donate to Elaf Babiker and her family! They are Sudanese refugees who have evacuated and began rebuilding their lives in Egypt, but her aunt was diagnosed her with brain stem hematoma! This means her brain has been bleeding! She has been in intensive care, relying on the ventilator as she is unable to breathe on her own, but the doctors needed $1,700 USD for her month long stay in the hospital. Otherwise they will discontinue her treatment! So please donate and share! We have $961 left to go! You can match me. I have given $5, but you're more than welcome to give any amount!

Verification: #165 in the vetted fundraisers' spreadsheet by @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi. Also listed on sudanfunds.com!

$22,843 USD / $35,000 USD

a lot of people could stand to start viewing the nakba and the holocaust as a continuum rather than as competitive binaries

Genya and Henryk Kowalski's recollections of their 1948 arrival in Israel after surviving Nazi death camps, by Alon Confino in The Holocaust and the Nakba: a new grammar of trauma and history ed. Bashair Bashair and Amos Goldberg

please think of the disabled people of gaza. please think of the diabetic people of gaza. please think of the neurodivergent people of gaza. please think of those whose lives are relying on medicine that has either stopped coming in due to the blockade, or is available in such scarcity that its price has skyrocketed.

we're approaching winter. on top of the challenge of securing waterproof tents and sufficiently warm clothing, some diabetic people in gaza have stopped taking their insulin as they can no longer afford it. those who are able to acquire it for now know every shot may be their last.

mohammed @ahmed0khalil, only 19, has been injured with shrapnel in his leg.

his father is diabetic.

one of his younger siblings is blind, and another is autistic.

imagine that kind of pressure during a genocide.

the least we can do is shoulder some of the financial burden. don't forget about the disabled people of gaza.

vetted here

It is true that the war has stopped, but the Israeli occupation fires daily from its machine guns towards us, as the bullets hit the walls and the ground. In addition to this, the crossings are closed and aid is prevented from entering. My family and I are suffering from bringing water, as it is difficult for us to obtain water in our area. Therefore, my friends, please help us and donate to us. Please donate.