I Was Just Talking To Ahmed @90-ghost (alongside Av, Who Might Be Reading This, Idk If Theyd Like To

I was just talking to Ahmed @90-ghost (alongside Av, who might be reading this, idk if they’d like to be part of this post tho). He has given me permission to write a post about our conversation.

This whole thing has gotten Ahmed to the point where he admits he’s started to hate tumblr after 12 years of being on here. He has over 3k messages in his inbox and can’t handle it right now, his brother and other family members are still in Gaza and he himself doesn’t have the money to help them out. I’ve noticed that donations have slowed among palestinian fundraisers in general, before this whole debacle that a few individuals on this site started. this is anecdotal, but I know Ahmed gets like $30-$50 per week in donations at this point, and that barely makes a dent in his and his family’s needs. Remember that people in Gaza need to pay massively inflated prices for what basic necessities are available right now. I think things are looking pretty dire to the people who would like to flee Gaza but don’t have the money. It already was dire that Egyptian government, working in lockstep with Israel and the west, charges $5k+ to Ghazzawis. Hala Agency, Ibrahim Al-Argani, and the other scumbags running the Egyptian state are all demons and they’ve lined their pockets throughout this genocide. But I digress—it was dire already and now the enthusiastic aid that helped people like Ahmed seems to have run dry.

All that is to say: Ahmed can’t continue to verify peoples’ documents or promote their fundraisers at this stage. He’s privately talked to hundreds of Ghazzawis and looked at their IDs, and he was the only person doing it for a while (a very small handful of other Palestinian users on here were doing it, but they’ve also gotten overwhelmed and stopped). When he was in Gaza, Ahmed was displaced multiple times, left sleeping in tents or on the streets while in active physical danger, starving, forced to drink unsafe water, and often sick. It’s not an exaggeration to say that his body and mind have been pushed to the limit. When he told me he’s depressed all day after doing this work while attracting a ton of negativity, I told him he’s allowed to stop for the sake of his own health, because frankly he needs to focus on his physical recovery. There’s nothing selfish about that, it’s not sustainable for him to be doing this, particularly not when he’s still under the immense stress of his brother and other relatives remaining in Gaza and relying on him for help.

Since I know people will ask: I currently don’t know of anyone on tumblr who still vets fundraisers. Everyone I know of who did has had to stop. I don’t know about the inner workings of Operation Olive Branch, but they seem to be one of a few collectives with enough members to distribute this work. It IS work, and those of us who have tried to do it have done so with a low failure rate (el-shab-hussein and nabulsi’s spreadsheet had over 200 entries and they misidentified a scam as legitimate ONCE). I hope everyone will be more considerate towards the people at collectives like OOB.

This has always been a matter of personal discretion. The vetting process some users tried to implement on here is meant to help people who want to help and accept the risk of offering aid to strangers. If you don’t trust bloggers who’ve been proudly Palestinian on this site for years, that’s up to you—genuinely, it’s fair to think “I don’t know this person and I don’t know what standards they’re operating on.” In the future, anyone who has such concerns should consider asking good-faith questions to the people involved and to converse with them like adults before jumping to accusations, conspiratorial posts, etc.

The Graveyard of Children and the Big Oven in Scorching Summer: Devastated Gaza

Note: [Vetted by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi. # 151 on the spreadsheet of Vetted Gaza Fundraisers List]

A plea from a Gazan family struggling to survive to another family in a better place on the same planet: we need your support in dodging bombs raining down on Gaza around the clock! We long for peace and safety! We long for a NORMAL life!

Life becomes incredibly unbearable in these scorching hot summer days turning tents into ovens that boil the blood in my family's veins. Even worse, the angel of death is taking the lives of so many helpless women, children, and elderly as you are reading this post.

As much as it weighs heavily on my burdened dear-stricken heart to say this, Gaza has gained more infamous nicknames during the ongoing genocide besides 'the biggest open-air prison in the world". Now, it is also an 'uninhabitable ghost city', 'the graveyard of children', and a 'blood bath'.

Only yesterday, Netanyahu, who is still thirsty for the blood of our children, made a press stating that the ravaging war on Gaza will continue. This means that my family, along with thousands of other families, will continue to run in a vicious circle of displacement, running from death, mass murder, hunger, thirst, and fear for life.

Please decide to take tangible action today to help my family evacuate as soon as possible to Egypt. I cannot lose them!

Please donate, reblog, and share everywhere you can.

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Donate to Death chases my family in Gaza; help me save them, organized by Mahmoud Khalaf

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Please support Shoroq in any way you can! She is only £186 away from her goal!!

£8,314 raised out of £8,500 as of 08/03

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Asking for help is not easy, I ask for a small donation of only 20€ from each person, 20€ will save my family from death in Gaza 💔 Donate through the link in bio (gofundme) Together, we can achieve our goal within a day and provide crucial support to me and my family in Gaza. Your contribution means everything to us and in these difficult times your kindness is our greatest hope. We are very grateful for any assistance you can provide and thank you for your kindness and generosity in our time of need

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This is my home Which was destroyed by the accursed occupation yesterday I'm not sad about the stones I'm sad about the memories I hope this

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Escape from bombing..💔

Are you just tired of these kinds of videos coming from Gaza Strip that asks you to not skip and to interact with it by donating or boosting it? Well maybe you are right, but guess what? We're also tired of living in this reality for a whole 9 months. So, it's not that much when we say that you are our only hope We literally mean it because you really are..🤍

Watching this video, you can see and may be imagine the horrible life that we live in here. This is how the Israeli military forced us to escape from our houses at the midnight by Ambulances and the Palestinian Red Crescent after violent attacks with heavy missiles and white phosphorus in our region. Flee with nothing but the clothes on our backs to search for safer place for my children who are screaming in fear. 😞

Like what else should we say so we can get your attention? What else are we supposed to lose so we can reach to safety and escape this genocide and this hell? 💔🍉

With profound sorrow, I implore your generosity as we endure this unimaginable ordeal. Your contribution can mean the difference between survival and oblivion for my family, and for this, we are eternally grateful. I believe your donation can offer us the chance to rebuild a new future for our children. Please help us, we need your help, support our campaign. 🙏🙏

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