"My Childhood Was So Awesome. Kids Today Don't Even Know!"

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i find myself resonating with this phrase a lot of the time

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This a message from Eman Abu Hayya, @imanhy-blog, who wanted me to share this with you all on Tumblr, please share widely.

"Dear all, I am sad to inform you that my family was displaced for the forth time again 7 days ago. The Israeli planes bombed a house that was very close to them and the house they were inside is no longer suitable for staying. The house windows and doors are totally destroyed regard the strong air strike occurred near. Below I share a photo for my little niece Hayat (her name means life!) where she appears injured.. It shouldn’t be too much bloody to grape your attention or to wake your hearts as humans! While my little niece Hayat’s name means (Life or Survival), and she is only 2 years old she could lose her life! Although she is just an innocent baby, 7 days ago at 3 am she had to wake up terrified and panicked screaming after a very big explosion occurred near. She got this small injury in her head since the bombing -that is by Israel- was close to the house they were displaced to before. Imagine what happens to those babies under rubble! I can’t imagine how would babies and kids look like when they are inside the house that was bombed! Life in Gaza is getting more dangerous and no safe place at all! Please donate and share and support me before it’s too late. I don’t want to lose any of my beloved ones by Israeli bombing. My family and every soul in Gaza deserves to live safely without all the bloodshed. Please consider sharing the campaign with everyone who would love to help by donating or sharing. Any amount of donation counts and could be a lifeline for my family. You can check this video on TikTok where a friend is talking about what happened recently to my family."

Tiktok Video link

gofundme.com

Donate to Evacuate My Family from Gaza for Medical Attention, organized by Eman Abuhayya

Dear friends and kind strangers, I urgently need your support to … Eman Abuhayya needs your support for Evacuate My Family from Gaza for

ajdnfcmcm it's taking forever because I'm having issues with motivation and also because I'm generally not happy with the designs whenever I do attempt to make them 💀

Literally all I have atm is SOMETHING's design which is not much when I still need to make 11 or 12 designs (both HS and RW) so uh, this might take a while

ouugghhhmsndhxbbxbxns I'm cooking up an omori au rn

tecnically a Mari lives au but I needed somebody to kill off so.. *devilishly stares at Basil*

I'll post more info once I'm happy with their designs

I always dramatically groan when I'm on babysitting duty, I love him so much but my teammates always make me do it 💔

Me when I get to babysit Twisted Glisten:

Sometimes idek

Hiii dandys world tumblr i have come to finally show my designs because ive been watching everyone like a fly that cant escape a room. Hope yall like it :3

One more time [ 🌙🍓] 1/2

Sprout angst fy all <33

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.