if you are struggling with choosing which fundraisers to support, please consider donating to the following places providing medical aid, food, and other supplies to palestine at this time:

if you are looking for individual fundraisers to donate to but are struggling to choose, gazafunds gives a spotlight to fundraisers that are not close to their goal.

instead of watching and supporting eurovision tonight, please instead boost this post & donate if you can. keep your eyes on rafah.

I recently spoke with my dear friend Suad @suad-khaled and she gave me an update on her life as a displaced mother in south-central Gaza. I want to share with you all some of what she told me:

Here is precious little Khaled, tired and fatigued from hunger and sickness, receiving nebulizer treatment:

And here is the flour Suad and her family are forced to pick through in order to survive.

Sifting only removes the largest insects that have made their home in the flour. It does not remove larvae, detached wings, or excrement. Suad and her family are forced to eat them in order to (barely) avoid starvation.

Suad’s situation has never been more dire than it is right now. Food and basic necessities are extremely scarce and expensive. And the threat of IOF attack is omnipresent.

Please, if you can spare anything at all, send something to Suad. We are her and her baby’s best chance at surviving genocide.

trying a shorter post so people don’t skip it

VETTED FUNDRAISER. €68,998 raised out of €100,000. Next goal is €70,000!

Nader is seventeen years old and lives in Gaza with his family. They’re a family of eight, which includes his father who has cancer and needs treatment and one year old Iman who suffers from malnutrition. They need help to survive the winter, get food and water and save up for evacuation.

DONATE HERE VETTING (#4)

Baby Ayla and her family were in their tent today when the IOF suddenly appeared and began firing on the tents. The family barely escaped with their lives, a bullet having narrowly missed baby Ayla’s head!

They had to leave their tent and most of their possessions, which are now under IOF control and are irrecoverable.

They are currently on the street, with no tent, no blankets, no food, and no clothes other than what they were wearing when they had to flee for their lives. They are literally just sitting in the dirt under the night sky.

Ayla’s mother Bashaer @bshaeromars-blog is trying to get Ayla to sleep, but Ayla is too cold and uncomfortable. The low temperature in Gaza tonight is just 47 F or 8 C. They are starving, freezing, and totally without resources. They DESPERATELY need funds for a tent, food, and other basic necessities!! The tent alone is $3000

Currently: $40,469

New temporary goal: $43,469 USD

Please send anything you can so baby Ayla and her family can survive the night!!

Morning in Gaza:

Torrential rains have caused extreme flooding in parts of Gaza. Baby Ayla and her family are soaking wet and freezing cold. What they were using for a tent has been destroyed by flooding. They urgently need $2,000 USD to procure shelter!!

Current: $43,953

New temporary goal: $45,953

Need to raise: $2,000

UPDATE: $44,510 out of $45,953

NEED TO RAISE: $1,443

EXTREME EMERGENCY! Medical fees preventing emergency hysterectomy!!!

Maha @mahafamily1 needs to have an emergency hysterectomy! She recently had a miscarriage, and if she does not have a hysterectomy NOW, she will die!!

The doctor told her EVERY MINUTE OF DELAY DECREASES HER CHANCE OF SURVIVAL!!! Minute-by-minute, we are losing Maha!!!

Because her recent emergency operation had to be paid on credit, and is not yet paid, Maha now needs to pay the full cost of the hysterectomy up-front before the procedure will be done!!! She urgently URGENTLY requires $2000 USD in order to survive!!!

MAHA IS DYING AS I TYPE THIS!!! I am in tears begging you all, do not let medical bureaucracy take such a beautiful soul!!!!

NEED TO RAISE: €1,922 EUR ($2000 USD)!!!

Maha is in preparation for her hysterectomy!!! You all made this possible!! Thank you so much❤️

Please pray that Maha’s surgery goes well and she is able to recover!!

In the mean time, please continue sharing her family’s campaign. This is not the end of Maha’s medical journey, far from it.

To add to her problems, she still owes $3000 USD for a previous emergency surgery, and the hospital will have her husband Ahmed imprisoned in 2 full days if they cannot make the payment.

Maha will not be able to recover if the debt is not paid because the hospital will once again refuse all treatment unless it is paid in full up-front. And that will be even more difficult to do if Ahmed is in jail and the hospital brings legal action against their family!!

Maha still needs your help!! Please keep sharing and donate anything you can!!!

New temporary goal: €19,300

Temporary goal is finally met.

Maha and her family will be able to pay off their medical debt, and Maha will be able to receive further treatment. Thank you🩷

Now they are trying to raise funds to purchase a new tent. Currently they are living on the streets, which are flooded with freezing and dangerously polluted water. This is severely hazardous to Maha, who is still immunocompromised due to recovering from near-fatal sepsis. They need about $2000 USD to purchase a tent that will help protect them from the elements and limit Maha’s exposure to flood water.

New temporary goal: €21,600

Need to raise: $2000 USD (about €1,922 EUR)

UPDATE: €20,582 out of €21,600 EUR

**Need to raise: €1,018 EUR (about $1,050 USD)**

Update: €20,587 out of €21,600 EUR

NEED TO RAISE: €1,013 EUR (about $1,045 USD)

israel banned mosques from playing the adhan

me when i’m the only democracy in the middle east or whatever they call themselves

Btw, they banned the Call to Prayer, because it was disturbing Jewish people

So basically, the very definition of an Ethno-supremarcist state

@prisonhannibal ❤️❤️

January 1, 2025 - A stray dog in Petea receives applause for being the first to cross the newly visa-free border between Hungary and Romania, as Romania joins the Schengen area.

once every month with 20k notes: *person so chronically online they've looped* i think we should consider agreeing with the status quo

why does tumblr keep trying to push communities so hard. I already have a perfectly curated community it's called my dashboard

"Okay but does tumblr have an algorithm? :(" "How will I know who to follow? :(" Fear not. Tumblr has the best algorithm of all social media it is called tapping somewhere by accident on your phone and now you follow someone new. Enjoy your new friend on your dash :)

I think that, when you are on hold, the hold music should not stop to tell you that you are on hold. The hold music should only stop when someone actually picks up your call. Vote me for president

"There are 5 callers ahead of you" can stay but it's on thin fucking ice, i.e, it can only stay if it plays when the number of callers ahead of you changes and not every 5 minutes. And CERTAINLY not every 30 seconds

The hold music shouldn't stop but it should speed up as you get closer to the front of the queue

Hi guys!! @sami-onley has reached out to me to help promote his gofundme to help him evacuate himself and his family out of Gaza🙏Sami has a wife, kids, elders, siblings, ans they all raise 30k for a goal to get to the safety. Right now they reached only 3k and they really need your support

He is one the number 14 on Gaza Vitters list

Unfortunately, donations for palestinian families are really low, although the war is not over yet. If you can, please donate to save his family

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

"Now being righteous – that requires imagination! But sin? It's a dull business." – Gerald Morris, The Legend of the King

"Down there,” he said, “are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no"

Terry Pratchette, Gaurds! Guards!

i don't wanna sound hopeless but i feel like so many of you don't care or have stopped caring about palestine.

the news of hospitals being bombed, children being massacred, people dying from the cold, and the famine spreading in gaza does not seem enough to grab attention or make people care.

what new tragedy needs to befall gaza for you to start talking about it? the occupation kills a child every few minutes. people are cold and are starving. refugee camps are being bombed with bombs that can level city blocks.

this all happens because of all of us. we are complicit in this genocide because our governments use the taxes we pay to send weapons to the occupation. weapons that are used to kill children and impose a blockade that is starving 2 million people.

the very fact that we're still going about our days when all of this is going on breaks my heart. especially because we have failed to stop our governments from using our money to arm israel.

i urge you, please be generous and donate to suad and her baby khaled. he is just six months old and suad is unable to find any formula for him. if she finds anything, it is extremely expensive. the baby also needs warm clothes and is suffering from a respiratory problem and needs a nebulizer.

@suad-khaled has been verified [#279]

please help suad and her baby boy

Baby Ayla and her family were in their tent today when the IOF suddenly appeared and began firing on the tents. The family barely escaped with their lives, a bullet having narrowly missed baby Ayla’s head!

They had to leave their tent and most of their possessions, which are now under IOF control and are irrecoverable.

They are currently on the street, with no tent, no blankets, no food, and no clothes other than what they were wearing when they had to flee for their lives. They are literally just sitting in the dirt under the night sky.

Ayla’s mother Bashaer @bshaeromars-blog is trying to get Ayla to sleep, but Ayla is too cold and uncomfortable. The low temperature in Gaza tonight is just 47 F or 8 C. They are starving, freezing, and totally without resources. They DESPERATELY need funds for a tent, food, and other basic necessities!! The tent alone is $3000

Currently: $40,469

New temporary goal: $43,469 USD

Please send anything you can so baby Ayla and her family can survive the night!!

Morning in Gaza:

Torrential rains have caused extreme flooding in parts of Gaza. Baby Ayla and her family are soaking wet and freezing cold. What they were using for a tent has been destroyed by flooding. They urgently need $2,000 USD to procure shelter!!

Current: $43,953

New temporary goal: $45,953

Need to raise: $2,000

UPDATE: $44,510 out of $45,953

NEED TO RAISE: $1,443