I needed to share this because this was so incredibly moving. This girl is so incredibly strong❤️❤️❤️🇵🇸🇵🇸

ONLY $5,000 USD UNTIL ESCAPE

This family's fund only requires $5,000 USD to get them to $20,000 which is what they'll need to evacuate Gaza. $5,000 is definitely an achieve-able amount. Please donate if you can, and if you can't, share!

posting this on behalf of ahmad al-turk, a palestinian law student who i'm mutuals with on twitter.

he and his family are currently camped out in rafah amdist daily bombardment. ahmad and his siblings have gone thru great lengths to raise awareness for their family's evacuation effort, from sharing daily snippets of their lives, to resharing their campaign every day, to organizing a group chat to keep their supporters updated.

shortly after joining the group i helped ahmad set up a tumblr account. he reiterated his story on the platform and you can still read the post here, but his blog was terminated the next day.

this, to me, was far too unfair and i became determined to help ahmad in any way i can. i am humbly asking folks to donate to the al-turks' campaign. at least 5 euros from everyone who sees this would greatly add up. it would mean a lot to me, and especially to ahmad, who is hoping to wake up to some good news tomorrow:

i am also taking art commissions for the cause, i have two options available: one where i dress a character in a famous musician's costume, and one where i draw a character in the palestine flag colors.

please don't let him down.

Please, it's an emergency. My family is in danger.🚨

Hello, I want you to help me, my family is in danger, anyone can help, so don't skimp, please, it's a very urgent matter.

I don't know anyone who can publish for us and share our story Please share my story on your profile and tell people about it Family consists of 7 people and we are now in Gaza we can't get out Please I have just posted the link with you, I made this account and I do not have interaction and I do not know anyone who can publish please help us

gofund.me/7489c83c

posting this on behalf of ahmad al-turk, a palestinian law student who i'm mutuals with on twitter.

he and his family are currently camped out in rafah amdist daily bombardment. ahmad and his siblings have gone thru great lengths to raise awareness for their family's evacuation effort, from sharing daily snippets of their lives, to resharing their campaign every day, to organizing a group chat to keep their supporters updated.

shortly after joining the group i helped ahmad set up a tumblr account. he reiterated his story on the platform and you can still read the post here, but his blog was terminated the next day.

this, to me, was far too unfair and i became determined to help ahmad in any way i can. i am humbly asking folks to donate to the al-turks' campaign. at least 5 euros from everyone who sees this would greatly add up. it would mean a lot to me, and especially to ahmad, who is hoping to wake up to some good news tomorrow:

i am also taking art commissions for the cause, i have two options available: one where i dress a character in a famous musician's costume, and one where i draw a character in the palestine flag colors.

please don't let him down.

Hello, I want you to help me. My family is in danger. I saw you helping people.

Please I don't know anyone who can publish for us and share our story I saw you by chance Please share my story on your profile and tell people about it Family consists of 7 members and we are now in Gaza we can't get out Please help us post our link gofund.me/7489c83c

Thank you so much for reaching out.

To everyone else, another legit GoFundMe to support!

Ahmad's family is raising funds to leave Gaza and they have not raised nearly enough funds to leave. This family urgently needs help. Please donate and share!

(ID in Alt)

The Turk family is stuck in Gaza under threat of bombardment as well as sickness and famine. Their lives and their home was stripped away from them by the occupation. Any help you can give would go a long way.

You can check in with Ahmad on his tumbler @ahmadturk00 and twitter @/ahmadturk_

Aseel Al Turk also frequently posts updates on the situation on her twitter @/aseelalturkk .

Below is a video of Aseel describing the Turk family's situation as well:

It's not the first time that has happened

Hello guys i have good news and bad news.

The good news that I'm finally in Egypt now with my youngest brother and the bad news is my mother and my other brother with his wife still in Rafah waiting to evacute to Egypt.

I feel so sad and depressed for leaving them i should stayed and get out together.

ONE HOUR AGO: the zionist protesters at the gates of columbia are actually being aggressive bigots after a week and some change of accusing student protesters of that very thing.

In case you were wondering: are the campus protests even important? Do they matter? Are they making a difference?

Yes, yes. They are making a difference.

Video description: Bisan, a young Palestinian woman, is speaking directly to the camera. She is wearing a black shirt and a keffiyeh.

Video transcript (I did my best but missed a few words)

I’m 25 years old. I’ve lived my whole life in Gaza Strip. I’ve never felt hope like now. Never. I mean it’s magical feelings running in my veins right now. In my head, I’m in Gaza city, in the north of Gaza Strip rebuilding my city after this genocide has ended. Even started to dream that my friends from Yafa, Haifa (unsure), majdal, are returning to their cities after being displaced for 75 years. These young heroes in universities at America and around the world are stronger than the last occupation in history. And for the first time in our lives as Palestinians, we hear a voice louder than their voices and the sound of their bombs and even stronger than their control in all aspects of our lives. 

In the 70s, the occupation, Prime Minister said, after decades of killing Palestinians, stealing the lands, establishing the state of Israel over the lands that “the adults will die, and children will definitely forget.” 

Wait. Is that the greatest (unsure) in history? Because it’s children and youth who are leading the movement for a free Palestine. everything they have on the line to demand justice and end of the genocide, and a new era of the world, not based on oppression, exploitation or colonialism. 

Do you know what the best part is? demonstrations and calls for boycott in the academic institutions are not limited to a certain people from certain religion, culture, color, religion, race, or maybe economic level. We are all different so we can no longer be accused of anti-Semitism, serving some agendas from outside, we are just different people calling for the same thing. People to people and people to justice. 

200 days I’ve spent escaping death every single minute were not in vain. And those 40,000 innocent souls were killed during these days were not also in vain. And this is the first time to feel and tell you this. 

Keep going because you are our only hope and we promise we will hold our ground and tell you the truth always. And please, don’t let their violence scare you. In Arabic, we say (Arabic phrase). In English, that means “they don’t have other options, but trying to terrify and silence you” because you are demolishing decades of brainwashing. You are making the change. The real change. Their violence means that we’ve begun to affect them deeply. Believe me, we are in the bottom of this bottle and we’re very very close to the end of this genocide. Maybe even closer than anytime before. Thank you. Thank you for each one of you, because you made us, me and my people feel that we are free. We are heard. We’re going back to our homes, and land. 

(Through tears) I have spent the whole night thinking about every video I see, you shouting for Palestine, you protesting for Palestine, you are dancing, singing for Palestine I feel it here in my head that I am going back. And I am free, and one day, we will celebrate it in, in Gaza together. Keep going and we will too. Salaam. 

(if anyone can help with my transcript, it would be much appreciated!)

When I made this post just ten days ago, it was about mass graves discovered at Al Shifa hospital and now we have learned that the same had happened at Nasser hospital in Gaza. The same genocidal pattern: a hospital is put under siege, patients and medical staff are abducted, tortured and buried in mass graves.

But to build on the last point I wanted to bring attention to in the previous post, it is very crucial to also keep in mind is that the Palestinian Civil Defence have reported that Israel had deliberately concealed the identities of those it killed and buried in these mass graves. Close to 400 bodies have been buried in these mass graves, 58% of the recovered bodies have not been identified.

In a press conference, a spokesperson of the civil defence in Gaza said that Israel had intentionally disfigured the bodies postmortem in order to remove any identifying markers such as birthmarks. He also mentioned that they suspect that the bodies have been placed in body bags that expedited the decomposition process, destroying any possibility of them being identified.

One of the main and only ways families have been able to identify the bodies of their loved ones is through the clothes they remember them wearing the last time they saw them. I saw a video of a mother identifying her son by his striped jacket. You can see the grief mixed with relief that she will be able to give her son proper burial.

Remember when months ago I said that to be identified and buried in Gaza has become a luxury? This is very much still the case.

Israeli forces and settlers have killed 36 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank in 2024, including two United States citizens, according to documentation collected by DCIP. 117 Palestinian children have been killed in the occupied West Bank since October 7, according to documentation collected by DCIP, when the Israeli military began a full-scale military offensive on the Gaza Strip. In 2023, Israeli forces and settlers killed at least 121 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank, according to documentation collected by DCIP. Israeli forces and settlers shot and killed 103 Palestinian children with live ammunition, 13 Palestinian children were killed in drone strikes, four Palestinian children were killed by missiles fired from a U.S.-sourced Apache attack helicopter, and one child was killed in an Israeli warplane airstrike.

🇵🇸💚 Journalists in North Gaza request water, get full meal, “This is just how we are. These are our traditions!”

🔸 Source: eye on palestine (main post), mahmoud._.shalha20 (footage) and translatingfalasteen (translation)