Imagine being an Information Technology student, your days filled with lectures, coding projects, and dreams of a better future. Then one day, your entire world is upended. You find yourself standing atop the ruins of your home, the bitter wind biting through your clothes as you stare at the devastation stretching endlessly before you. In the blink of an eye, your world has transformed from textbooks and computer screens to survival amid the wreckage of a genocide.

Story written by @rumiandroses

Before the war, Mahmoud was an Information Technology student at Gaza University, harboring dreams of building a brighter future for his family. Those dreams were shattered when the university was bombed, classes were suspended, and his home in Khan Yunis was reduced to ruins. Now, Mahmoud and his family live in a makeshift tent in a displacement camp, fighting to survive without water, electricity, or access to food.

The winter cold seeps through every threadbare inch of the tent, and the howling wind drowns out the silence left by everything they’ve lost. With his father sick and his brother in need of medical care, Mahmoud shoulders the burden of his family’s survival alone. Every day is a battle against hunger and despair, a struggle to find clean water and enough food to keep his loved ones alive.

Despite the ceasefire, the nightmare continues. The streets of Gaza are lined with hollow buildings and shattered glass, a grim reminder that peace is a fragile but unwavering hope. The infrastructure is decimated, jobs are nonexistent, and the people are left to fend for themselves amid the wreckage. Mahmoud's dreams of finishing his education are now intertwined with a desperate plea for survival—for the chance to escape Gaza, to rebuild their lives, to turn the page on this chapter of endless loss.

Your support can help Mahmoud continue his education outside of Gaza, to rebuild what was destroyed, and to keep his family alive through the darkest winter they’ve ever known.

Please consider making a donation to help Mahmoud's family rebuild, or by sharing his story so his call for help can reach others who can.

You can donate to Mahmoud's GoFundMe campaign [HERE].

Mahmoud’s campaign has been vetted by @gazavetters, and is (#063) on their list of verified campaigns. His campaign has also been vetted by @beesandwatermelons, and is (#190) on their list of verified campaigns

Please help my family

My name is Aisha

✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #358 )✅️

I don’t like being referred to as a boy

Woah mama I'll give anyone who misgenders you the Elvis Special (a bullet)

This account likely makes the list of “the last accounts I’d ever expect to be anywhere near my blog” but I appreciate it

Woah mama I'm one of your mutuals

WHAT

Achievement Unlocked:

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Learn an unexpected secret about your connection to an Elvis-themed gimmick blog.

getting a note on a super old post

reblog to slap op with some paper in the wind

Post to boost Diabetic Gazan Nabila (link)

(Paypal is shared with daughter,and other family members)

Nabila is a diabetic woman living in Gaza, and insulin has increased in price to $40

VETTED BY 90-GHOST and Sfaamq10 confirmed to me this is her mother so vetted by association as well

She is a mother and hase mutliple adult children with their own campaigns

sfaamq10 safaa, Ghada , Hamma and fakhta /tahreer1 /tahreer-amir0 on Tumblr (multiple accounts for last one) are her childen

She has provided a picture of where she used to live, making the trip despite her condition to snap a screenshot when I told her that her other images taken news articles alone might make people think her account . I feel sorry she had to do that.

tom-hunter-summah

So I know it's common for folks to headcanon Khan was always obsessed with doors, and that obsession was more or less an arbitrary passion he had... but I can't help but feel there's a really important detail that, when considered, suggests otherwise?

@ilovekhori

welcome to the club op! glad you are now on the side of “actually looking at and understanding khan’s complexity instead of just making him the door guy and only the door guy.” and not like . the other side.

no Elvis, that's Hazbin Hotel. Hetalia is the Greek goddess of the hearth.

Silly Pango, that’s Hestia. You’re thinking about that feeling when you haven’t eaten and you’re furious

No, no, I'm pretty sure that that's called being hangry. Hetalia is when your eyes have different colors.

nah, that's heterochromia! hetalia is a type of small fish that forms large schools that can be found in the northern Pacific and Atlantic oceans :)

actually, turnip, thats a herring. hetalia is when you experience pain or discomfort in the cephalic area.

almost! That’s a headache; hetalia is the less common name for liver leaf or liverwort.

you are soooo close! Those are hepatics. Hetalia is a beautiful place where good people ascend to when they die, according to some religions

No, that’s heaven. Hetalia is a fancier word for rumors.

Why did you pull me over? Audio Transcript

happy shut the fuck up friday

‼️‼️We will die at any moment‼️‼️

The war has returned after 15 months of death and genocide. We have never rested. We are losing people every day, most of them children and women... The bombing is everywhere. Our children are afraid...The sound is frightening.😭

There is no food, no drink, no medicine, the crossing is closed and everything is expensive.

‼️We don't want to die. Please donate and help us so we can buy food and medicine for my mother and save ourselves from death. Just donate. 😭🙏😞🫂‼️

"damn I'm crying over an insect" "why am I having such strong feelings over how the sky looks" "it's weird how happy this small thing made me feel" THAT'S BECAUSE YOU LIVE HERE!!!! you live on this earth. everything all the time is an experience, no matter how common or mundane. this world is unique. so are its small moments. it is good to enjoy a tiny thing. you love the world even at its smallest scale.

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Closest match: Peromyscus eremicus genome assembly, chromosome: 183 Common name: Cactus Mouse

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[Image Description: A simple illustrated gif showing Ibrahim, a young Palestinian man, next to the words "Save Ibrahim's Family; Donate Today! End description.]

I am writing this on behalf of my friend Ibrahim @aburakhiaibrahim. Ibrahim is only 20, but instead of getting to study, work, or enjoy his life, he is living through a genocide.

Ibrahim and his family of 28 are living in the ruins of their home. They are all exhausted and hungry, suffering from the lack of food and other basic necessities and aid in Ghazzah.

As well as this, since the war began again, they have to live in constant fear of bombing. Recently, Ibrahim attempted to film a video, but the sound of bombing was too loud to speak or be heard over.

[Video Description: A short video recorded by Ibrahim, a young man in Ghazzah. He is facing the camera and tries to speak, but the loud sound of a bomb going off startles him. He speaks some works in Arabic as the sound continues. End description.]

Ibrahim and his family need donations to afford basic necessities to survive during this dangerous and unjust situation. Unfortunately, donations are often slow. They have been fundraising for over a year at this point, but they still have yet to reach even 40% of their goal.

Please, share and donate, help to Ibrahim and his family! Your donations and efforts in sharing their campaign make a difference.

Vetted #336 on nabulsi and el-shab-hussein's list

Vetted here by @/gaza-evacuation-funds