I've Been Reading The Updates On Gaza, And What I've Read Has Made Me Extremely Worried About Mohammed

I've been reading the updates on Gaza, and what I've read has made me extremely worried about Mohammed (@ahmed0khalil) and his family who are in Deir el-Balah right now.

There have been continuous relentless attacks on Deir el-Balah. Israel has been targeting tents in Deir el-Balah. Just a few hours ago, Israeli fighters have just bombed a home in that area, killing at least 5 people, including 2 children.

Mohammed and his family are sheltering in a UN classroom right now. Israel is known to target schools sheltering displaced people. Just yesterday another school where displaced families are sheltering has been attacked. This is the fourth school Israel has bombed in less than a week! But they don't have nearly enough funds to evacuate!

Mohammed is only 19 years old and he has 5 siblings. Things have been difficult for them his brother Fathi who is blind, his other brother Abdullah who is autistic and does not understand what is happening, and little 6-year-old Ahmed. They are all suffering from malnutrition because they don't have enough money to buy food, and that is on top of the frequent attacks they have to face every day!

Mohammed's campaign has been shared by 90-ghost as well as vetted by @/gazavetters and is #77 on their vetted list. I've also been communicating regularly with him. Please help! Your donation can mean life or death for them!

Low Funds! Only €3,418 raised of €50,000 goal!

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Donate to Help Ahmed Khalil's family evacuate to safety, organized by Mohammed Khalil

Hello, among the hundreds of tragic stories, I am sharing my painful sto… Mohammed Khalil needs your support for Help Ahmed Khalil's family

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Dear Friends and Supporters,🫶

I am reaching out to you with a heavy heart to share the desperate situation my family is facing in Gaza. Recently, our home was destroyed, leaving my family with no shelter. Right now, they are living in tents with winter fast approaching, and the conditions are becoming unbearable.

We have lost everything, and my family is struggling to survive. The cold, lack of basic necessities, and the uncertainty of their future have turned their lives into a living nightmare. With winter approaching, their situation grows even more critical.

In addition to needing basic supplies and shelter, I am also hoping to help my family leave Gaza and relocate to Egypt for safety. Living in these conditions has become unbearable, and moving to Egypt would provide them with a chance for stability and a safer environment.

I am humbly asking for your help. Any contribution, no matter how small, can make a significant difference in helping my family escape this devastating reality, rebuild their lives, and relocate to safety. Your generosity and support will provide them with the chance to have a safe, warm place to call home and a fresh start.

Please consider donating to help us during this incredibly difficult time. Together, we can make a difference and bring hope back to my family.

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Donate to Help the Abu Shammalah Family Find Safety and Rebuild, organized by Ahmed Abushammala

Dear Friends, Family, and Kind Strangers, I am writing to… Ahmed Abushammala needs your support for Help the Abu Shammalah Family Find

Thank you for your compassion and for standing with us in this time of need.

Verified by @el-shab-hussein , @ibtisams 🙏Verification number #161

Sincerely,

Ahmed abushammala

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Wow, what could have happened? /s

Also this rise of tumblr users determined to call all gofundme’s a scam over the smallest details is so telling of the average person’s ability to have empathy and understand the lengths a person will go to to help their family survive. Yes, Gazans are making multiple accounts, they are sending asks relentlessly, they are copying templates/formats text posts from each other, they are giving extreme and explicit details of their suffering, they are using google translate to try to reach as many people as possible, but wouldn’t you do the same if it was your family you needed for raise money for survival for? How can you not understand where they’re coming from before jumping to calling them scammers?

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I am Omar from Gaza and my brother is Muhammad. He suffers from sclerosis, a family of 4 members. I hope everyone will help me receive treatment abroad 🚨🚨

This is the case of my remaining brother from the rest of my family who needs enough treatment and urgent surgeries and needs to travel abroad to perform them and this costs a high price so please look at our tragic condition and donate to us to save my only surviving brother from my family. Please save us from this hell 💔🙏

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Thank you to everyone who contributed with us🍉

URGENT: Tawfik has 195 hours to pay off the second part of his tuition.

URGENT: Tawfik has 280 hours to pay his tuition. Done!

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Updated: Sep 28

Member(s): @tawfikblog, @90-tawfik

Verification: @/90-ghost

Payment methods: PayPal, Venmo, Google Pay, credit/debit. Here is his aunt's Paypal for him where he can see the daily progress (proof under cut).

Sep 26: The goal is now different but the pace is the same. See under the cut for more details.

Summary: Tawfik's campaign needs to reach $5,200 USD by Oct 7 so he can pay off the second part of his tuition for university classes for the semester. Any additional funds will go towards textbooks (base cost $600), which I will post about later.

Current progress:

USD $ 1,087 3,702 / 5,200

(short term / 18,860)

Campaign details:

Tawfik is a software engineering student in Palestine trying to continue his education by enrolling in online classes at an Egyptian university.

He already raised roughly USD $2,500 in late July through a now closed Paypal campaign and paid the school as an application and reservation fee. This is nonrefundable.

His tuition can be split into 2 installments: one due Sep 30 (paid) and the other Oct 10.

This number accounts for additional fees, see math section below

He needs to get his campaign to $5,200 to pay off the second part of his tuition by Oct 7 so he can pay it by Oct 10, 12am in Egypt's timezone.

Fortunately, the way I've scheduled this gives some leeway but I'd rather we get the money in asap.

We will need to earn ~$200 a day.

Transfers to Tawfik take 2 days and his payment to the school is immediate.

He has another goal for $600 in textbook fews (not accounting for any additional fees and transfer times). I will update this post shortly after we pay off the second installment.

Math:

Please let me know if I screwed up the calculation somewhere.

Update Sep 26: I recalculated based on concrete donation amounts vs a safe overestimate. Basically, he needs $3,600 and not $3,700.

Goal 2 (Oct 7):

He needs an additional $1,200.

After gfm's 2.9% cut and 0.3 per an assumed 80 donations, he'd only have $1141.2

After 12% bank fee: $1004.26

After transfer fee of estimated $50: $954.26

To cover the above fees, he needs an extra $350 (I've accounted for the fees on this too).

$954.26 + $350 = $1550

$3625 is the amount already present in the campaign. $3625 + $1550 = $5175, rounded up to $5200.

The transfer fee is likely higher, but Tawfik should have some backup money from tuition 1 that I can calculate after he gets back to me with a concrete number after paying it off.

Goal 1 (Sep 27):

He only needs $3,500 in his gfm to get $2,050 with an estimated 120 donations (200 total donations)

($3,500 - $1,052) * 0.971 - (0.3 * 120) = $2342. This accounts for the gfm fee of 2.9% and $0.3 per donation.

$2342 * 0.88 = $2,061. This accounts for the 12% cut the bank takes and is what Tawfik gets.

This is cutting it too close for comfort so I'm setting the campaign goal to $3,600.

Older calculation:

Tawfik has already spent the $1,052 already earned to care for his family, so it is excluded from my calculation for now. From my memory, he had ~80 donations when I made this post.

His base tuition cost is USD $2,050. GFM will take 2.9% and $0.3 of an assumed 200 to 250 donations. The resulting fee is rounded up to $150.

His bank transfer fee is 12% of $2,050 - $150, which is $228. In the end, he only gets $1,672.

$2,050 + $600 + $1,052 (campaign money he already used) = $3,702. This can be rounded down to $3,700 as I am overestimating the number of donations.

So to cover additional fees, he'll need around an extra ~$600 (I've accounted for the fees on this too).

His bank transfer fee is 12% of $1,200 - $70, which is $136. In the end, he only gets $994.

So to cover additional fees, he'll need around an extra ~$375 (I've accounted for the fees on this too).

$3,600 + $375 + $994 = $4,969. This amount is an estimate and highly subject to change. I've overestimated the amount of donations needed to hit goal 1 and when we get there, we'll likely have already made an excess of funds that can go towards goal 2. I am not updating goal 1 because I don't want too many old versions of this post floating around causing confusion.

Update Sep 25: Tawfik saying to donate to his aunt's PayPal because his was having issues

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