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On february 25 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25 year old active duty member of the US military, seif-immolated outside the Zionist embassy in Washington, D.C. Aaron lit himself ablaze in protest of the United States' ongoing complicity in the genocide on Gaza. In making the most extreme sacrifice a human being can in support of a moral cause - his own life Aaron sent a message on behalf of the masses of the US and of the world, that people of conscience everywhere will refuse complicity in the unfolding genocide against the Palestinian people until our last breath.
While US media is already spinning the story as one of a mentally ill, troubled youth, Aaron's own message in the seconds prior to his act demonstrate the moral clarity and foresight with which he pondered and ultimately decided upon his act. Aaron is now the second person to self-immolate in protest of the US-backed genocide on Gaza, the first being a woman in Atlanta who lit herself on fire outside the Zionist consulate in Atlanta, Georgia.
There is perhaps no metaphor more powerful for USempire than the response of police at the scene. Instead of running to put out the flames with fire extinguishers and save Aaron's life, cops drew their weapons and pointed them directly at Aaron as he stood burning to death. What threat did the police see in a young man on fire, incapable of doing anything but shouting "Free Palestine" until the pain prevented him from shouting any longer? They saw something alien to them, alien to the logic and machinery of US empire: self-sacrifice for a cause greater than one's own life. The word for martyr in Arabic, "shaheed," translates to "witness," or one whose final moment in life is as a witness to injustice. Aaron Bushnell is a martyr, whose final moment was spent in the heat of one naked, unflinching truth: the moral conscience of every human being, from the belly of the beast to the farthest reaches of the Earth, demands immediate attention and action to end the horrors before us. Let Aaron's words and last act burn brightly in our conscience, let it propel us, let it move us to continue struggling for a Free Palestine, now and until the hour of liberation.
source: palestinianyouthmovement on Instagram
From eid_yara on Instagram
" the loss of the right to education for my children. "
During the war, I experienced a million awful feelings.
I felt the loss of my friends, the sense of heartbreak, the hunger and thirst, the feeling of being rescued from death, the shiver of fear, the months of waiting, the loss of your hard work, toil, and dreams, the displacement, the feeling of running in the middle of the night from one place to another due to an evacuation order, the illness and malnutrition, the feeling of sleeping on the floor in the hospital while everyone passes over you because there's no bed to sleep on, the constant thinking, the sense of alienation in your own country, the attachment to places and people and then leaving them, the disappointment, the queues, and more. The most important thing is the loss of the right to education for my children.
How can I explain to you the harshness of everything that is happening?🙁
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https://www.tumblr.com/nadasaftawi/752539012340793344/donate-to-help-us-escape-gaza-a-mothers-plea-for
Dear Friends,
Life in Gaza has become unbearable. I am begging for your help to save my children. I don't want them to die here. If anything happens to me, please don't forget them. Save them after I'm gone.
Please share our story and contribute to our campaign. Your support is our only hope.❤️🙏
With heartfelt gratitude,
Nada Safwatawi
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Hello there, 👋
I am Tamer Aldeeb, a dentist from Gaza.
We have suffered greatly from fear, displacement, and the destruction of our home and my clinic, and everything we literally own...
We want to save ourselves from what seems like an inevitable death.
I hope you can take a look at my campaign on the pinned post on my profile ,and help us by donating or sharing our campaign to reach the largest number of supporters.🌹🌹
Our campaign is verified by @90-ghost , @ibtisams , @el-shab-hussein , @nabulsi and @fairuzfan 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Thanks a lot in advance ❤️❤️❤️
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https://www.gofundme.com/f/ne9gzx-help-them-to-survive?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet-first-launch&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer
Dear Friends,
I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to share an urgent plea for help. Due to the ongoing conflict in Gaza, my family and I have been forced to flee our home and seek refuge in Khan Younis. My mother, who is pregnant, is in critical need of assistance to ensure her safety and the safety of her unborn child.
We are facing severe hardships and are struggling to provide her with the necessary medical care and basic necessities. I have launched a campaign to raise funds for my mother's survival during this perilous time.
Your support in sharing our campaign on social media could make a life-saving difference. Please help us spread the word and gather the support we desperately need.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Sincerely,
Please help us by sharing the post on your page so that we can collect donations and get out of the war. You are our hope. I will be very grateful to you . ❤️🙏🏼
"this fundraiser is vetted by nabulsi, fallahifag, el-shab-hussein, ibtisams, sayruq"
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Hello
My account is new and in fact I do not have enough financial support 😥
Please support me guys or participate in my campaign🌺🙏
https://www.gofundme.com/f/hani-al-sharif-and-family?
My account has been verified by nabulsi
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https://www.gofundme.com/f/ne9gzx-help-them-to-survive?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet-first-launch&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer
Dear Friends,
I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to share an urgent plea for help. Due to the ongoing conflict in Gaza, my family and I have been forced to flee our home and seek refuge in Khan Younis. My mother, who is pregnant, is in critical need of assistance to ensure her safety and the safety of her unborn child.
We are facing severe hardships and are struggling to provide her with the necessary medical care and basic necessities. I have launched a campaign to raise funds for my mother's survival during this perilous time.
Your support in sharing our campaign on social media could make a life-saving difference. Please help us spread the word and gather the support we desperately need.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Sincerely,
Please help us by sharing the post on your page so that we can collect donations and get out of the war. You are our hope. I will be very grateful to you . ❤️🙏🏼
"this fundraiser is vetted by nabulsi, fallahifag, el-shab-hussein, ibtisams, sayruq"
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Hello 👋 This is Moamen and his family from Gaza. Please help us evacuate to safety, complete university studies, and find a source of income after the destruction of what we own. We live in difficult circumstances and a difficult life 🙏🏼 ❤️ Please share and spread the campaign because I urgently need help and the matter is urgent. Because the campaign is going very slowly, there is no water and little food. Please donate and share please Moamen Majed, his four brothers, and their parents ($40/$30,000) - @moamenmajed-gaza
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Fayez asked me to share this again. If you haven't heard of him, you should check my post above. Again not a verified fundraiser but **I think** his posts are very likely true and real, and it just wouldn't feel right to completely ignore someone going through language barriers, an unfamiliar app layout, and internet fees while also in a active warzone asking for help. Especially for the POSSIBILITY they could be a scammer.
He is at 1580 CHF as of now and has said he's been getting donations but at a slower and slower pace. He's now literally just getting one donation a day. and remind you, family with 10+ childern and a baby are whose stuck Gaza. Please, please considering helping this family in whatever way you know how.
( tagging for reach, sorry for the bother! ask me and I'll take out your name. No judgement no hassle <3
(@el-shab-hussein @heritageposts @riding-with-the-wild-hunt @palestine @appsa @vinstage4u @pale-grunge-dark @cocainecurls @ftkillzz @bxrntobesomebody )
Please share this underfunded (less than 1000 USD) palestinan gofundme!!
(For complete transparency, I've yet to see any sign of verification on any of Fayez posts. I've reached out to Fayez about him being vetted/permission to share his story, and if this post has been posted with this message, and I have not gotten a response. But his posts are very likely real and his gofundme is very underfunded, so underfunded i feel like it would be wrong of me not to share it. I'm not aware of how the process of vetting and verification works, so if you do or know anyone who does, please reach out to Fayez. And even if you don't, just read this post, share it, and read and share fayez's posts on his own profile.)
Fayez Al-Omrani (@fayezgaza) and his family fled from their home on Oct 7th, needing to leave behind most of their possessions and sources of livelihood. Since then, they have been displaced and forced to live in a tent in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. The tent is in constant threat of being bombed and has none of the sanitary equipment to keep the family safe.
They are trying to raise 55,000 CHF, which is 61,867 USD or 84,949 CAD. As of july 19th, 7:18 est, they only have 642 CHF, less than 1000 USD. The fundraiser has been completely stagnant for the last four days.
I'm not sure exactly how many people are in Fayez's family, But I do know there's is multiple small children in it, and seeing from his posts and gofundme, there are atleast 10 children, including toddlers and even a baby stuck in that tent. Not to mention Fayez himself.
Fayez speaks constantly about how he and the older siblings worry for the younger childern. He say the childern of their family is there source of strength, and who they hope will stay safe and largely uneffected by the attacks.
The tent is again unsafe and unsanitary, the family once even found a scorpion in the tent. The family often goes hungry, and everyday Fayez need to go out on long trecks in the hot Middle Eastern summer to recieve water for his family. The conditions the tent has forced them to live a horrible life, completely juxtaposed to their life before October.
Fayez says in one of his post's that the tent is not fit for life, and if the bombs from Isreal do not kill his family, living in the tent will surley will.
Fayez and his family have been living in the tent for 9 months, and he started sharing thier story on here since June 15th. But he has not broken 50 notes on any of his posts (and his most recent posts average 1-5 notes), and hasn't even recieved enough donations to pay for a mere month's of rent in the usa.
Imagine being forced from your home, and having the city you've known all your life turn in to rubble and ashes. Imagine living in constant threat of bombs or missiles being rained down on you, killing your family's childern. Imagine going how ever many miles you need to walk get access to internet, and only getting two or one notes on your post and a small donation. Imagine needing to promote your own lifeline, inbetween surviving the cruel life in Gaza.
Fayez is tired. He says it in his post and has been saying it since the beginning of his account. It's exhausting to live day to day like this, and you can help him and his family stop living like this by donating today.
And if you're not confortable donating as of today, reblog this post, reblog Fayez's posts, if you know how to, try to help him become a vetted fundraiser. Anything that could help this and and his family!
Hello guys
I am Rozan Ayman Fathi, 24 years old
I ask you to read these lines and help me so that I can save my family
Consisting of 7 individuals
I live with my beloved family in the Gaza Strip, specifically in Gaza City. When the war began, we were displaced from our dear home and dearest to my heart to tents in the city of Rafah (we do not know whether it is still standing or whether it was demolished by bombings and shelling). We were always moving from one shelter to another seeking shelter. For protection, and when Rafah was invaded, we were displaced and moved again to tents in Mawasi Khan Yunis. We were very tired, especially my mother, as she is sick with diabetes and gallstones.
Life in a tent is torment, pain, and oppression, a life without the minimum necessities of life, where there is no bedding, no flooring, sand surrounds you from all sides, no sanitary facilities, no water, whether for bathing or cleaning, and no drinking water. There are no detergents. Canned food is scarce and of poor quality
We miss fresh food,
Very high temperatures inside and outside the tent
The spread of dangerous infectious diseases, insects, toxic organisms, and other difficult matters of life, in addition to the danger of bombing and death that lurks around us every minute..
Here is a real and Vetted campaign !
BOOSTINHGGG
Hello ... I would like you to help spread my new account. I previously lost my account, which I can no longer use due to the fraud I was exposed to while requesting to withdraw money from someone outside the country because we are not allowed to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and the difficulty of the Gofoundme website policy. All the money that was donated to me was returned and I can no longer benefit from it. This is the link to the deleted website (https://gofund.me/23f6654d).
I hope you will stop spreading this link and help spread my new campaign. I was not lucky, so I did it again with determination and not despair by creating another account. Perhaps luck will be on my side and I will be able to escape the pain and torment of the war that I and my family are living 💔 I ask you with all confidence to support my new account so that I can spread hope in myself and my family. This is the new link {https://gofund.me/e6a1e1e9}🌹
Here is a real and Vetted campaign !
BOOSTINHGGG
Hello ... I would like you to help spread my new account. I previously lost my account, which I can no longer use due to the fraud I was exposed to while requesting to withdraw money from someone outside the country because we are not allowed to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and the difficulty of the Gofoundme website policy. All the money that was donated to me was returned and I can no longer benefit from it. This is the link to the deleted website (https://gofund.me/23f6654d).
I hope you will stop spreading this link and help spread my new campaign. I was not lucky, so I did it again with determination and not despair by creating another account. Perhaps luck will be on my side and I will be able to escape the pain and torment of the war that I and my family are living 💔 I ask you with all confidence to support my new account so that I can spread hope in myself and my family. This is the new link {https://gofund.me/e6a1e1e9}🌹
This is an explanation of the most severe daily suffering we are experiencing. I hope you will help us escape this barbaric war. Please share and donate if you can. 💔🙏
https://gofund.me/07155bf9
This is an explanation of the most severe daily suffering we are experiencing. I hope you will help us escape this barbaric war. Please share and donate if you can. 💔🙏
https://gofund.me/07155bf9
vetted campaigns for gaza. 🍉🇵🇸
@ameera-anq : gofundme — €12,755/€20,000
@amnehsharif10 : gofundme — US$8,759/$90,000
@malkzaeem : gofundme — CA$19,540/$50,000
@burningnightgiver : gofundme — CA$5,596/$50,000
@salahaldinhor : gofundme — €784/€40,000
i urge everyone who sees this to share, at the very least, if you cannot donate. please, please, please do not scroll past without reblogging. this post will be updated as/if anyone else reaches out!
Hello guys
I am Rozan Ayman Fathi, 24 years old
I ask you to read these lines and help me so that I can save my family
Consisting of 7 individuals
I live with my beloved family in the Gaza Strip, specifically in Gaza City. When the war began, we were displaced from our dear home and dearest to my heart to tents in the city of Rafah (we do not know whether it is still standing or whether it was demolished by bombings and shelling). We were always moving from one shelter to another seeking shelter. For protection, and when Rafah was invaded, we were displaced and moved again to tents in Mawasi Khan Yunis. We were very tired, especially my mother, as she is sick with diabetes and gallstones.
Life in a tent is torment, pain, and oppression, a life without the minimum necessities of life, where there is no bedding, no flooring, sand surrounds you from all sides, no sanitary facilities, no water, whether for bathing or cleaning, and no drinking water. There are no detergents. Canned food is scarce and of poor quality
We miss fresh food,
Very high temperatures inside and outside the tent
The spread of dangerous infectious diseases, insects, toxic organisms, and other difficult matters of life, in addition to the danger of bombing and death that lurks around us every minute..
Heartbreaking news out of north Gaza today
We write to inform you that renowned journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul and cameraman Ramy El-Rifi of Al-Jazeera were murdered just a few hours ago by the occupation. They were going out to document the scene of another bombing attack, when they were deliberately targeted by the occupation. Footage provided by journalist Osama Al-Ashi in the immediate aftermath of the attack shows that Ismail and Ramy were murdered with targeted precision weaponry, meaning the occupation watched them, waited for them, and executed them in cold blood (warning: graphic footage).
Ismail and Ramy have been documenting the genocide at immense personal cost since the 7th of October 2023. They were previously kidnapped and tortured by the occupation, but survived and continued to remain in north Gaza and document crimes against humanity. They have had many narrow escapes, and today, the occupation was finally successful in its illegal goal of assassinating these prominent journalists.
When western journalists hand-wave their suppression of the IOF’s atrocities in Gaza by claiming no journalists are “allowed” in to report, remember these men. Remind them of these men. These men who lost friends and loved ones, who suffered immensely, and yet chose to remain and continue documenting the genocide against their people. They join the ranks of more than 150 Gazan journalists who were murdered by the occupation to hide its crimes and retaliate for speaking the truth.
حسبنا الله و نعم الوكيل
أنا لله و أنا اليه رجعون
God suffices us and he is the best disposer of affairs. We belong to God and to Him we shall return.
Keep fighting for Gaza. Don’t stop talking about north Gaza.