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It is not lost on me that the people accusing shahed of being a scammer reacted like that with a screenshot of the post where i specifically talked about shahed as a photographer and what she had personally lost to the zionist occupation in gaza.

And while they are not the first to try and discredit Shahed, i have noticed so far that a lot of it has come from people who have “free palestine” in their bios and palestine flags in their headers- like it's an aesthetic rather than an actual movement towards decolonization we must commit ourselves to. Because the people making these accusations thoughtlessly don’t have to commit themselves to anything- no matter what happens, they’ll get to keep living their privileged lives unchallenged.

It seems to me that the user base from the imperial core is only comfortable talking about atrocities happening to people in gaza when they are faceless victims they personally do not have to know or interact with, but not when they are real people with rich internal lives- with families, friends, hopes and dreams, and as artists who deserve to be uplifted and seen.

They are unable to confront the personhood of the people who their empire is actively killing today, and the enormity of everything the victims have lost and it all reads like a violent reaction to their own discomfort with having to hear about it at all- the claws come out and suddenly everyone is a liar and a fraud who is out to steal the measly $5 they were never even forced to donate. "Eat the rich" website my ass you people cant even be trusted to not report and try to get accounts of people deleted when they are just asking for help.

I will not let you discredit and insult shahed and her family like that.

I have known shahed for a month or so now and we talk on most days, when she is able to get a good internet connection. It has been spotty recently because of the incessant bombing, and because she got displaced after the massacres last week from where she and her family had been encamped at khan younis.

She has talked to me about her little sisters Rafif and Masa a lot. Rafif, thirteen years old, likes to read and write stories, winning prizes for it at a sector level, while Masa, who Shahed has described as a nine year old diamond, loves to draw.

They are both currently very ill with severe hepatitis from the unclean water in gaza.

Shahed told me that in the days before she and her family had gotten displaced, she had been recommended by the doctor who had been treating the kids to give them sweets, so that they can keep their strength up with the sugar.

So shahed decided to make them cake. With the scarcity of food and water in gaza right now, alongside the lack of basic amenities available in a kitchen, it had taken Shahed days of hunting to scrounge up all the ingredients she needed to make a cake. She often ran into dangers just trying to gather ingredients for them, as many areas in khan younis were turned into active combat zones. Oftentimes she escaped from death by just a hair.

Consulting her friend who is a chef, she was finally able to make it using a clay oven and give it to her sisters.

She has told me that despite how tired and sick she herself was, and all the dangers she had been through, it was all worth it when she saw her sisters’ faces light up when they got first taste of the cake she had painstakingly made for them.

This was around the same time she was able to collect the whole $40,000 USD for her sisters’ evacuation so that they can seek proper treatment for their illnesses in egypt.

It was also one day before they were forced to flee from their camp at khan younis due to the constant bombing by the IOF.

Both online and offline, Shahed has been fighting for her sisters’ safety at great cost to herself, despite all the obstacles in her path.

Right now, she has registered her sisters for evacuation at the hala agency for when the border opens so they can get to safety. But due to the lack of funds for it, she will not be able to join them when they leave and will have to stay behind with the rest of her family.

In her own words:

"This is my family and I will always fight for them. I know that when I am afraid, I will be able to survive if I know that they will be by my side. We will be together. I can't imagine an instant where we are apart.

I will be too lonely, and I will collapse without them. Who else will give me the motivation and strength to fight? they are everything, my family is like my soul. I can't imagine for a moment that we are not with each other.”

Her sisters are her strength, and without Shahed i can't imagine there will be people in Egypt who will fight for those little girls as fiercely as she does. The safety Masa and Rafif want to escape to CANNOT exist without Shahed, and she has told me how heartbroken they are too at the idea of being forced to leave Shahed and the rest of the family behind.

TIME IS RUNNING OUT. TO EVACUATE THE WHOLE FAMILY OF 17, SHAHED WILL NEED TO GATHER 80K WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK.

THEY ARE CURRENTLY ONLY AT 54.6k/80k

PLEASE SUPPORT SHAHED AND KEEP HER FAMILY FROM BEING TORN APART.

With regional tensions being escalated by the zionist occupation in gaza, we don't know when they might get a chance to evacuate again. The people who have been hellbent on discrediting palestinians and discouraging people from donating to them by targeting shahed recently have been beyond cruel, and we CANNOT allow them to hinder Shahed from saving herself and her family.

gofundme.com

Donate to Help Shahd in Gaza!, organized by Shahed Muhammad

Have you ever experienced seeing your dream broken in front of your eyes and not being able to do … Shahed Muhammad needs your support for H

Her gfm has been verified and appears #224 on hussein and nairuz's list of vetted fundraisers.

We need to get them to this goal one way or the other but i can't do it on my own. So PLEASE repost her gofundme in your whatsapp groups, in your discord servers.

Share her story, repost her photography anywhere you have reach, share the link to the raffle being conducted for her @journalsforpalestine wherever you can this CANNOT WAIT.

Shahed needs these funds as soon as possible. Her entire family is at stake and we can't fail her now.

SHAHED IS FACING AN EMERGENCY!

Shahed Muhammad @shahednhall is a 21 year old college student and photographer who has now become the sole provider for her large family. She has five younger siblings and two parents who have fallen ill. For the past few months she has been fundraising for her entire family to escape genocide. She just signed her family up for evacuation with the Egyptian Hala travel agency but they told her if she doesn't provide the full fee soon, her family will get split up!

If the threat of her imminent death and/or family separation isn't enough for you, @journalsforpalestine is running a raffle to give away an ornate journal , @magnus-rhymes-with-swagness is offering commissions, and @quicksilver is running an art raffle. i am also offering commissions, check my pinned post.

gofundme.com

Donate to Help Shahd in Gaza!, organized by Shahed Muhammad

Have you ever experienced seeing your dream broken in front of your eyes and not being able to do … Shahed Muhammad needs your support for H

current progress:

$49,400 / $80,000

THIS IS EXTREMELY URGENT. WE NEED TO RAISE ~$30K USD WITHIN SEVEN DAYS. PLEASE DONATE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN. IF YOU CANNOT DONATE, SHARE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN. THERE IS NO OTHER OPTION. LEAST OF ALL FOR HER.

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@rhubarbspring @schoolhater @pcktknife @transmutationisms @sawasawako 

@feluka @terroristiraqis @irhabiya @commissions4aid-international @wellwaterhysteria 

@deepspaceboytoy @post-brahminism @junglejim4322 @kibumkim @neechees 

@mangocheesecakes @kyra45-helping-others @marnota @7bitter @tortiefrancis 

@toiletpotato @fromjannah @omegaversereloaded @vague-humanoid @criptochecca 

@aristotels @komsomolka @neptunerings @riding-with-the-wild-hunt @heritageposts 

@ot3 @amygdalae @ankle-beez @communistchilchuck @dykesbat 

@watermotif @stuckinapril @violentrevolution @mavigator @lacecap 

@socalgal @chilewithcarnage @ghelgheli @sayruq @northgazaupdates2

@decolonize-the-left @bisexualpositivity @arty-cakes @closet-keys @assad-zaman

@claudeleine @killy @heritageposts

IMPORTANT: Help Family In Crisis (with proof of not being a scam, I guess)

Hi all, I had just come home from a 10 hour work day, semi-relieved that we would have at least raised $1,000 for Wafaa's sister and brother today, after three days of barely any donations, when I saw the donations plummet from almost $8,200 to $7,600. An anonymous donor who contributed $500 had pulled out of the campaign because of a baseless claim.

Link for Hussein’s post here explaining the entire debacle where the user pointed out Shahed and Shaima + Muhammad shared the same organizer. Screenshot included below where they namely mentioned Shaima and Muhammad's campaign.

I have known Wafaa after she talked to and was verified by @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi on their spreadsheet in late April-early May. At that point she was still struggling to fundraise for her own children and grandchildren (family number 171 on spreadsheet). By then just a few months on the app, she had been shadowbanned, so I added her to Whatsapp just in case staff ever thought to delete her intentionally.

Which they did on July 19, after shadowbanning Wafaa four times in the span of barely two weeks, they deleted her old blog without notice. I was extremely worried for her campaign, and continued to post in her stead. On July 20, Wafaa made a new blog, @wafans-blog, which she still uses.

Wafaa recently reached her goal and after she was contacted by her sister and brother Shaima and Muhammad, she was overjoyed but was also tasked with the difficult campaign of evacuating all 10 of their children, themselves, and their spouses (a campaign for 14 people in total).

So why didn't Wafaa use the same organizer who helped her last campaign? They have a family emergency and long working hours and thus could no longer continue to sponsor Wafaa, especially for a long campaign. Wafaa then turned to Shahed, who had helped Wafaa promote her campaign when she had just created it and had a trusted organizer in the U.S. Through Shahed, Wafaa connected with the organizer Said, who agreed to help create the campaign for Wafaa. That is why Shahed and Wafaa's family share the same gfm organizer.

Shaima and Muhammad's campaign was verified by Hussein literally 4 days ago and added to the same vetted spreadsheet (family number 260).

Because of Hala agency pricing the evacuation of all kids above 15 as adults ($5,000 per person), this campaign has 6 children who each need $5,000 in order to be registered for evacuation. Our goal this week is to raise enough money for the 4 children who are below the age of 15. Please help us get to $8,000 at the very least by tonight, and $10,000 by the end of this week.

The most recent donation was from 40 minutes ago. We are currently at $7,920. Please help us raise $80 in the next hour.

gofundme.com

Donate to Help Mohammad & Shaima in Gaza!, organized by Said As

Hello, my name is Wafaa 42 years old. After my campaign ended, I wanted to start evacuating my… Said As needs your support for Help Mohammad

Siraj is at 19,261/20k CAD as of Aug 2nd (12:36pm et).

That's just 739 CAD away from 20k. Roughly 178 people need to donate 5 CAD (which is again just 3.61 usd) , and we're at our goal! Can we make it there by tomorrow?

Daily update(26) 🇵🇸

300 days

We live in a war of extermination and suffer forced displacement and starvation

300 days since the genocidal war The war on Gaza is not just stories, but rather the end of the stories and dreams of innocent people.

By the way, I stayed in seven places other than my home during “displacement,” and whenever anyone noticed my shyness or distress in my behavior.

He said: Consider the place like your home!

How can I explain to them that I want a “Ya” in my house, affectionate, it is the language that gives you that “Ya” of ownership.

You go on as if you own the world and everything in it!

For my home, who was displaced and killed by a plane in November 2023

I thought you would guard my home alone I let you down So you fell, my dear house!

All the places looked like my home,, but it was not my home!

A new chapter of astonishment and attempts to survive.

Note: My campaign is moving towards the second goal, 20k. Please get me to it by the end of this week 🙏🏽

My hope and dreams are on you 🙏🏽

gofundme.com

Dona a Support Siraj's Family in Rebuilding Their Home, organizada por Ahmad Abudayeh

hi, my name is ahmad and I'm raising a fund for my cousin Siraj and thi… Ahmad Abudayeh necesita tu apoyo para Support Siraj's Family in Reb