I was asked to help share Omar's fundraiser. He is urgently raising money to evacuate he and his family or start rebuilding their lives in Gaza. He has only raised €822 out of his €50,000 goal so far! Please share and donate, and if you can't donate, please still share!

From Omar's GFM:

Hello, I am Omar, a Palestinian from Gaza.

I’m reaching out to you seeking your help for me and my family from the horrors of the relentless war that has been ongoing in Gaza for 7 months now. I would like to tell you a bit about my small family.

I am married and have 4 children, Leen, Lian, Mohammed, and a 9-month-old daughter named Lolo. My 38 years of life in Gaza is what I love all about. I love its beach, its streets, its life, its smell, I love everything about Gaza. I had a normal, quiet and quite happy life with my husband and daughter and with my parents and siblings until last October.

After the 7th of October, my whole life came upside down due to the war on Gaza. I first moved to live with my wife and children at my parents’ house due to the ongoing war and the fact that we needed to be evacuated across the Gaza Strip. I was afraid of not being able to save my family with bombs falling around, so the first displacement was moving to my parent's house. The war became fiercer and we were afraid, my little child was crying due to the continuous shelling and explosions.

Eight months pregnant, my brother's wife struggles to care for herself and her unborn child. The desperation weighs heavily on all of us.

A few days later, we were ordered to evacuate the building where my childhood home once stood so we had to quickly collect a few belongings and leave my parent's house. Me, my wife and our family moved to my sister’s house which was in a quieter neighbourhood and a smaller building. That was our second displacement. Shelling equally followed us to that area, so this time along with my sister, her husband and his family all of us had to move again. We had to split to 3 different places due to available places to shelter and thus with our 3rd displacement, the incessant bombing, lack of water, food, electricity and multiple communications blackouts we also had to endure the separation and the inability to communicate inside Gaza as well as being cut out from the outside world.

There’s no place safe in Gaza, we can be bombed at any time and anywhere across the strip. Displacement is hard on adults, so it’s unimaginably harsh on children who are not able to comprehend why they have to move from one place to the other, the reason some basic day-to-day things keep changing, such as water to shower, food, water, being enclosed without going out and of course the noises of the warplanes and raining bombs. Amid all of these horrors, we received the news that my parent's house, that place we used to call home where we lived our childhood, as teenagers and adults, that neighbourhood where we lived with our friends and neighbours for years was simply reduced to rubble. All 4 buildings and surroundings were wiped up from the neighbourhood. In a few minutes, a lifetime was lost. Home, savings, friends, neighbours, and memories, all vanished in a blink.

My greatest concern is children, their future, where they will live, study and grow up. There’s nothing left in Gaza, all life-sustaining means are now destroyed. The future became blurry and dark. We had dreams, me and my wife, for us and our children. We dreamt of a simple, peaceful and bright life and a successful future for the children. We all have the right to have a normal life and children deserve a normal childhood and a bright future like other children worldwide. We should be able to provide them with the essentials for a normal life, such as safety first and material needs such as food, clean water and clothing and also education. These are the minimum rights of a child.

I’m also concerned about my parents who dedicated their lives to me and my siblings to provide us with the best education and the possible comforts of life so we feel like we live in a place as in any other free country across the globe. At this age and within these war conditions, I would like to be able to provide them with a safe place and a decent life to give back a bit of all their dedication throughout our lives.

In case this war gets to an end, we need to restart our lives, in Gaza or preferably outside where we can find safety and peace. In Gaza, we have no place to live any more and the rebuilding will take years and a huge amount of money. Outside Gaza, we need the money to get out and a reasonable amount to start somewhere.

To be able to find a safe place for our children where we can have a peaceful future alongside her parents and grandparents, I would greatly appreciate your contribution to donate and share this donation request so it can reach the highest number of kindhearted people and we can get a good amount of money to provide the children with what they deserve.

From the bottom of my heart, I would like to greatly thank you for your support.

Sincerely yours,

Omar

I was asked to help spread Ahmed's fundraiser. He is urgently raising money to help rebuild his life and the lives of over 50 of his family members and provide for their basic needs. He has only raised €2,939 out of his €19,000 goal so far! Please donate and share, and if you can't donate, please still share!

From Ahmed's GFM:

People keep their memories in their family home, as it is the place where they grow up, surrounded by family members and take care of each other.

The israeli occupation war planes bombed my family home, a twelve apartment building in Gaza, leaving my entire family without a place to live! They also destroyed our store, which is our only source of livelihood.

My family of over 50 people have nothing left after our safest place on this earth has been destroyed. My great father and head of the family who is 75 years old, had spent his entire life building this home and was forced to watch it burn down in a few seconds as he ran for his life while it was targeted by the israeli occupation bombs raining on Gaza.

Every donation, no matter its size, will make a huge difference in helping us rebuild our lives and provide for my family's basic needs. The devastation of the israeli attacks has left us in a dangerous and precarious situation. Your support during this difficult time will give us some hope. Your generosity will not only help us put a roof over our heads again, but it will also help us restore our faith in humanity.

Thank you.

Ahmed Almashharawi

AHEAD OF THE United Nations Security Council action to consider the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member of the international body, the United States is lobbying nations to reject such membership, hoping to avoid an overt “veto” by Washington. The lobbying effort, revealed in copies of unclassified State Department cables obtained by The Intercept, is at odds with the Biden administration’s pledge to fully support a two-state solution. In 2012, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution granting Palestine the status of a non-member observer state. The diplomatic cables detail pressure being applied to members of the Security Council, including Malta, the rotating president of the council this month. Ecuador in particular is being asked to lobby Malta and other nations, including France, to oppose U.N. recognition. The State Department’s justification is that normalizing relations between Israel and Arab states is the fastest and most effective way to achieve an enduring and productive statehood. While clarifying that President Joe Biden has worked vigorously to support “Palestinian aspirations for statehood” within the context “of a comprehensive peace that would resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” a diplomatic cable dated April 12 details U.S. talking points against a U.N. vote for Palestinian statehood. The cable says that Security Council members must be persuaded to reject any proposal for Palestinian statehood — and thereby its recognition as a sovereign nation — before the council’s open debate on the Middle East, scheduled for April 18. “It remains the U.S. view that the most expeditious path toward a political horizon for the Palestinian people is in the context of a normalization agreement between Israel and its neighbors,” the cable reads. “We believe this approach can tangibly advance Palestinian goals in a meaningful and enduring way.” “We therefore urge you not to support any potential Security Council resolution recommending the admission of ‘Palestine’ as a U.N. member state, should such a resolution be presented to the Security Council for a decision in the coming days and weeks.”

I was asked to help share Wael's fundraiser. Wael is a Palestinian doctor urgently raising money to rebuild his home and evacuate his sons from Gaza to Egypt so that they can complete their studies. He has only made €1,398 out of his €210,000 goal so far! Please share and donate, and if you can't donate, please still share!

From Wael's GFM:

HELP WAEL'S FAMILY TO REBUILD THEIR HOUSE & TO GET SAVE LIFE

Hello all donors, I am Mohammed Faris, I live in Belgium and I am here to help and support my childhood friend Dr. Wael Eldahdouh from Gaza. He is now living there a terrible and difficult life with his family, please help him secure his family. Below he wrote more information about himself:

Hi, I'm wael Eldahdouh, I'm a doctor from gaza, and I'm organising this campaign to rebuild my bombed house and to get my sons outside of gaza to complete their studying..

Before this war we was living a beautiful and save life but now we lack this safety life and have been living a life of displacement for six months once inside school and once other inside tent in hospital.

We are a family of eight members, four girls and two boys 24, 20, 18, 15, 11, and 10, half of whom are children.We are a close-knit, friendly family who loves life and education.

My daughter lost her job with the bombing of the company where she worked as an accountant, and my son Barakat and my daughter Menna cannot complete their university studies due to the war and the bombing of their university. The rest of my children lost their schools and their educational lives. We have literally lost everything, our previous life with all its details, the house, the car, and the dreams. Now we only think of survival.

We have lost a lot and we need your help to live again and return our home to the way it was beautiful. The entire city has been destroyed, institutions, hospitals, universities, schools, even water and electricity. It has become difficult for children to live in this life that lacks the least necessities. Now we live in very difficult and harsh conditions. We have been living in a small tent for about six months. Children get sick every week due to malnutrition, and they are psychologically destroyed by the war. They do not see any hope for a better tomorrow. But perhaps you are the hope for my children. Your donation and support will help them start over, away from this death. Please help us to get out my children to safety place.

The money will be used to pay for my children to travel to Egypt temporarily until the war ends, to pay for their studies in Egypt, and finally to rebuild our destroyed home..

Tawfik reached out to me to help spread his fundraiser. He is a Palestinian engineering student urgently raising money to evacuate he and his family from Gaza. He has only raised $3,409 out of his $40,000 goal so far! Please donate and share, and if you can't donate, please still share!

From Tawfik's GFM:

Urgent appeal: Escaping devastation in Gaza - saving a family's hope

Dear merciful souls,

I am Tawfik satoom an engineer, I live in Gaza. I was completing my studies, but unfortunately the unimaginable happened. The war came and took everything from me and my family. I extend my hand to you from the depths of despair that we feel while we are in Gaza in the midst of war. Memories of a life that was once peaceful, full of love and security have been stripped away by the merciless horrors of war. Not only are my possessions lying in ruins, but the pain, agony and humiliation inflicted upon us are beyond the reach of mere words.

Our journey has become a haunting odyssey, and the burden of rebuilding our lives and escaping the darkness prevailing in this war-torn land is insurmountable. As ordinary civilians not affiliated with the conflict, my family and I yearn to...

To be free from this nightmare.

The war destroyed our house, turning it into rubble, and now we find ourselves living in a tent. Life has restricted us greatly, and our only hope is to seek help in escaping this nightmare and making a path towards a decent life.

Now! We only had a tent left.

The harsh truth is that the cost of escaping is staggering - $9,000 per person. For those of us desperately seeking refuge, this amount represents an overwhelming barrier, threatening to imprison us in this suffering.

In our quest for safety and a semblance of normalcy, I turn to you, my fellow humans, for help. Every contribution, whether big or small, is a lifeline that can pull us out of the abyss. Join us in breaking the chains that bind us to this torment.

Be a beacon of hope for Tawfik Satoom and his family. Your support is not just a financial contribution. It is a lifeline to freedom, security and a future free from the horrors of war.

We will use this money to take additional measures to enter Egypt and escape the war.

With the weight of necessity in my heart,

We deserve to live. Tawfik Satoom

Ranen reached out to me to help with his fundraiser. He is urgently raising money to buy food, drink, and medical treatment for his children. He has only raised €115 out of €5,000 so far! Please donate and share, and if you can't donate, please still share!

From Ranen's GFM:

Hi, my name is Philip Jacobson, I live in Lyon (France) and I'm trying to raise funds to help acquaintances survive in Gaza. In Ranen's own words:

"Urgent call. We in Gaza ask for the help of every person in the world to stand with us and support us because we are dying from hunger, thirst, diseases and extreme cold. Help us and do not ignore us."

Ranen reached out to me to help with his fundraiser. He is urgently raising money to buy food, drink, and medical treatment for his children. He has only raised €115 out of €5,000 so far! Please donate and share, and if you can't donate, please still share!

From Ranen's GFM:

Hi, my name is Philip Jacobson, I live in Lyon (France) and I'm trying to raise funds to help acquaintances survive in Gaza. In Ranen's own words:

"Urgent call. We in Gaza ask for the help of every person in the world to stand with us and support us because we are dying from hunger, thirst, diseases and extreme cold. Help us and do not ignore us."

Besan reached out to me to help share her fundraiser. She is urgently raising money to evacuate her parents and siblings from Gaza to Egypt. She has only made €3,290 out of her €25,000 goal so far! Please donate and share, and if you can’t donate, please still share!

From Besan’s GFM:

Hello, my name is Besan.

I am from Gaza, currently in Germany since November 21th.

As much as it pains me to resort to fundraising, it is the only option left for me to save my family's life.

I feel useless.I want them to stay alive. ‏

My family, consisting of my mother, father, sisters and brothers, have been forced to evacuate five times so far, moving to what was supposed to be safer places, but there is no safe place anymore. When the war started, they were evacuated hoping they could return once it ended and continue their lives as usual, without knowing it would last this long, After 5 months of this war, we learned that the house we built just 8 months ago suffered severe damage ‏

So please, if you decide to help, know that I will be immensely grateful and deeply thankful. Every amount, no matter how small or large, is valuable and greatly appreciated, and I will be grateful to you for the rest of my life.

Purpose of Fundraising Campaign I am initiating this fundraising campaign to evacuate my family through the Rafah/Egypt crossing, which currently requires $7000 per person. This is our only chance to survive. I humbly seek your assistance now more than ever.

- Conclusion: Asking for help is not easy, but we are left with no choice. Your support could mean the difference between life and death for my family. We are deeply grateful for any assistance you can provide. Thank you for your kindness and generosity in our time of need

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mostly the palestine parts (i was limited to 28 pages overall so its a tight squeeze). feel free to use as posters and such cuz i will. :)

Donia @doniatanani reached out to me to help share her brother Said’s fundraiser. He is urgently trying to evacuate he and his brothers from Gaza to Egypt. Please donate and share, and if you can’t donate, please still share!

From Said’s GFM:

I'm Said Tanani from Gaza, I'm reaching out to you with a heavy heart and a plea for help getting me and my brothers out of Gaza, Me and my brothers, left our home under the continuous bombardment and artillery strikes, on foot, without carrying with us our personal supplies, our stuff, or even our money, heading from Gaza to Rafah. we lived the most difficult days of our lives in a shelter with scarce resources, sleeping on the ground. Without covers, without drinking a healthy water, without the importance life nessecary.

By now, many of you may be aware of the dire and heartbreaking situation unfolding in Gaza. It pains me deeply to share that me and my brothers are currently trapped in Gaza amidst relentless bombings, desperately seeking refuge and safety.

We are currently seeking help to evacuate from Gaza to Egypt looking for a safe and healthy place. But Unfortunately, the costs are exorbitant and change dramatically and unexpectedly by the day, as Israel's grip on the south of Gaza intensifies in the coming days and weeks, the costs will continue to rise as the demand increases and the number of agents operating the evacuation routes drops.

As of late March the evacuation fee ranges between $8,000 and $10,000 per person, before processing and transport fees, and we will pay the higher end of the range since me ,Abadi and Mohammed.

Any amount raised beyond the total will be used to supplement me & my brothers lives as refugees in Egypt.

Your donation, no matter how small, will make an impact. You will be contributing to getting my brothers to safety. The funds will be used transparently and every dollar will go towards securing our evacuation.

Please share this campaign widely to help us reach our goal and bring my brothers to safety. Your support means more than you can imagine and I am incredibly grateful for any assistance you can provide during this challenging time.

Thank you for your compassion and generosity.

Together, we can make change and help my brothers find the safety and security they need.

With heartfelt gratitude

Said Tanani.

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Donia @doniatanani reached out to me to help share her fundraiser. She is urgently trying to evacuate herself and her displaced family from Gaza City. She is close to her goal at €56,969 raised out of her €70,000 goal! Please donate and share, and if you can’t donate, please still share!

From Donia’s GFM:

Dear All

I hope this message finds you safe and well, as safety is all I wish for every human in the whole world, This is Donia Tanani , a 25 years old , married and I have my beautiful daughter Salma , a war survivor until now, writing to you from the most unsafe place in the world, Gaza city, where the ongoing violence and oppression has turned every day into a battle for survival.

We have known hardship all too well for many years, enduring the relentless challenges of living in a conflict zone .Yet ,the current situation has plunged us into even deeper despair , facing homelessness , hunger and illness. So my husband and I are reaching out for a chance to escape and build a new life out of here.

We are running out of time and I really want to survive , I thought alot before starting to create a link on GoFundMe but I just want to make a try, we live under rockets , bombardment and airstrikes ,So I don’t want to be a number . I want to live in peace with my family without any of this , every thing here is not suitable for human life , everything is literally deadly.

For me , before the war, I had a life that I slept with my eyes full of gratitude to god for it. I graduated as a translator and started working but there is no place left on gaza that was not destroyed . Also my husband lost his work and his place was completely destroyed , nothing remained even our house was bombed and become rubble.

In the blink of an eye , our lives were upended, our homes lost, our dreams shattered . Displaced more than 6 times in search of safety , we have faced the harsh reality that there seems to be no sanctuary from the ongoing violence and instability.

I’ve launched a GoFundMe campaign with a desperate plea for help . Our sole mission is to evacuate my family from the violence and devastation engulfing Gaza . Every contribution , regardless of size, brings us closer to ensuring their safety and well being.

With each passing day, the urgency of our situation intensifies, your support is not just a lifeline ,its a beacon of hope amidst the darkness . Together we can make a difference , bringing my family to safety and reigniting our dreams for a better future.

Your help means rescuing three souls, each one filled with hope, love, and ambition. Your help means that we're not just numbers, and that their lives matter and deserve to go on despite everything.

You are now reading what I wrote , being the knight who will contribute to saving me and my family from the death machine devouring everything in its path.

With profound gratitude

Donia Tanani

unfortunately going to have to make another post because things are getting bad again 

i work as a gas station attendant and accommodations were made when i was hired so that i could sit down while working due to my fibromyalgia / chronic pain . recently a customer complained that i was being “lazy” so my manager decided that i can’t sit down anymore . i can do that , sure , but i won’t be able to move the next day . i tried explaining this to my manager but she said that the decision was final . and so i’ve had to call off a lot of days these last few weeks because of the extreme pain that i'm in . my manager told me that we have to meet this sunday and i’m pretty sure i’m going to get fired . 

i live paycheck to paycheck and even then i’m constantly struggling to afford medication , food , gas , etc . i have no savings , so if i lose my job , i’m completely fucked . and honestly i’m just very tired of living like this , not knowing when my next meal is going to be or having to scrounge up every last cent i have for my insulin . 

i hate asking for help so often but i really feel hopeless right now . i don’t have anyone to turn to IRL , otherwise i would . even a few dollars means so much to me , it’s literally the difference between me eating or having to fast for another day . i do art commissions if you’re interested , you can find all of my links below . please boost this and spread this post around . thank you so much for reading this

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Ahmed reached out to me to help spread his fundraiser. He is urgently attempting to raise money to evacuate his displaced 7-person family, including his parents, wife, and brothers, from Gaza to Egypt and gain access to necessities of survival. He has only made kr111,012 out of his kr350,000 goal so far! Please share and donate, and if you can't donate, please still share!

From Ahmed's GFM:

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conversion rate is (100 USD = 700 DDK)

Dear compassionate supporters,

I extend my heartfelt plea to you, driven by the urgency of the dire situation my family faces in the chaos of Gaza, a war-torn region. I am Ahmed Shamia, a fourth year student of application development, I come to you seeking your generous support to evacuate my beloved 7 family members from the hazardous conditions we currently endure in Gaza and relocate us to safety in Egypt.

Meet my remarkable family:

Parents:

Dad : A skilled social service employee and has many international certificates.

Mom : The heart of our family, A lovely teacher.

Me and my wife: a nice couple the war destroyed our dreams to be a nice family.

My sick brother Yasser : who has cerebral palsy and need an immediate care.

My middle brother Mahmoud : who have a big dream to complete his study.

My little brother omar: he also have a big dreams to study like every child in the world.

Shortly after the war started, our house was bombed, and we’ve since been displaced more than four times and lost all of our money. Our only hope of restoring some semblance of normal life is to evacuate. For over 170 days, we’ve lacked basic necessities. Among other things, we lack access to clean water, medicine, healthcare, and gas for cooking.

The Urgent Situation:

my family suffers of displacement and inability to care my older brother, who has cerebral palsy and cannot eat even his food. He eats it with difficulty because of problems in his lungs, and he now needs care and treatment. The medicines have become severed and his condition deteriorates day after day so that he does not know the taste of sleep because of the disease.

As I write you, the Israeli army’s planned invasion of Rafah grows ever closer. We have lost everything we’d worked so hard to earn and build, and now have no place to go. ‏Your support and solidarity will give us a fighting chance of surviving and building our lives anew.

Financial Details:

Travel company (YA HALH) costs $5,000 for people over 18.

And $2,500 for people under the age of 18.

A total of $30,000 to evacuate the Shamia family from Gaza to Egypt.

And $10,000 to cover the care expenses of Yasser Mohamed Shamia, who suffers from cerebral palsy.

And an additional $10,000 to cover the cost of living and basic family needs.

Thank you for your kindness during this challenging time. Your support is crucial in this humanitarian endeavor.

any additional donations will go for their survival in Egypt and their return when war ends.

Gratefully,

Ahmed