The Story of Mohamed Hussein Ismail and His Family: A Journey of Struggle and Hope ποΈπποΈ
I am Mohammad Hussein Ismail, a 23-year-old Palestinian from Gaza, reaching out to you during these unimaginably difficult times. My life and that of my family have been profoundly changed by the war, and today I write to you, hoping for your support and assistance.
My family consists of five members: my mother Raja (51 years old), my father Hussein (58 years old), my sister Iman (18 years old), and my younger sister Noor (13 years old). We used to live a simple life filled with hope and ambition before the war turned our lives upside down.
On a grim night at the onset of the war, our neighborhood was relentlessly bombed. The blasts shook our home, compelling us to flee into the darkness, navigating through sporadic explosions, desperately seeking safety. By morning, we reached southern Gaza, seeking refuge in Rafah, our hearts heavy with sorrow for what we had lost. ποΈπποΈ
In this brutal war, my father was injured, severing tendons in his finger due to relentless bombardment. Due to malnutrition and rampant diseases, my sister Iman contracted hepatitis, exacerbating our suffering. We endured the cold winter within the confines of a tent, and the scorching summer heat as well, trapped inside due to harsh weather conditions. Unable to stay together as a family, we were forced to scatter and flee once again from Rafah due to intense shelling, seeking refuge in Deir al-Balah within the Gaza Strip, where our struggles continued in search of safety and hope for survival.ποΈπποΈ
Now displaced, we endure an immensely challenging life, filled with hardships. We struggle tirelessly to prepare food over open fires, to fetch water, and even find a place to sleep. We've lost the basic comforts of life. Due to inadequate shelter, severe infections have ravaged my body, and I've grown exhausted in the quest for treatment amidst the scarcity of medicine.ποΈπποΈ
Our plight is desperate, and we implore your support to rebuild our shattered lives and secure a future for our family. Your kindness and generosity can bring about a profound change. Your contributions will provide us with the means to find safe shelter, access essential medical care, and obtain the basic necessities of life we so desperately need.ποΈπποΈ
I had an old account that was deleted, and I am pleading for your help in sharing the new one. Our only hope is that you can help my family survive this brutal war. πππΉ
Please, we plead for your help during this critical time. Every donation, regardless of its size, brings us closer to safety, stability, and the opportunity to rebuild our shattered lives.ππΉ
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It's been nearly a month since I've talked about my ISAT cards, so you get to see them again, but only the ones that are my favourites and look cool to me. Not that the whole pack wasn't an effort of love, but the clubs and spades was me basically copy and pasting an outline and reworking the expression to be different.
I won't be posting all the cards here (since you can download them on itchio and did you know it's also pinned to my blog???) but you at least get to see the full Jack set for the suits. Was always going to make Bonnie be the Jack from the very beginning.
Also, a variation of the Jack of Hearts card because I found a stupidly funny reference on Google under the cut:
Edit of furry luz that took me two hours to make π₯²
A Siffrin!! this drawing was to practice using a tip I reblogged earlier today about blurring your sketch layer before going into lineart so your not just tracing your sketch layer. While my lineart is more like a refined sketch layer I really love this blurring sketch idea. When I got into refining the sketch I was so much more loose with it and became very happy with the final product!!
I gave Siffrin a bit of a purple hint to their color palette since I see them as the mysterious magical purple character
yippe traffic light trio!
I am very normal about traffic light trio I absolutely do not have a album with over 120 photos of them-
not too proud of how the colors came out but I still like how it turned out :]
Ralph or something
Idk if i should share the pages inside bc i dont want to spoil ot for others who havent gotten it yet⦠also i dont know what to tag it as so people can mute it just in case
WOOHOO EMERALD TRIO!
they are so amazing I love them so much aughdkskalh
this took me like the entire day (9-11 hours to be exact) oh god
π I have seen the worst of humanity. But I still believe in kindness.
My name is Naser. War took my family. It took my home. It displaced me and my brothers twice. We have suffered more than I can put into words.
But I have also seen kindness. I have seen strangers step up and offer help. I have seen hope, even in the darkest moments.
Thatβs why I still believe in a better world.
π± A Future is Possible With Your Help Your support, whether itβs a donation or a simple share, can change our lives. You can be the reason we get to dream again.
π Thank you for believing in hope.
people treat bisan, motaz and plestia like they're influencers instead of, you know, people who have endured/are enduring war crimes beyond imagining and ethnic cleansing. what I mean is, they never asked to be spokesperson for their people's humanity, or planned to be so visible. they're just people, ordinary people who can never go home, who are surviving colonial violence. what they're doing and what they have done defies any term of admiration or respect I could apply. But I wish that people would stop thinking of these individual Palestinians trying to survive in war zones like celebrities or politicians with actual power because it's just another form of dehumanisation. Ask yourself, what will you do if something happens to Bisan? If she is killed or goes dark or inshallah she escapes? Everyday I see posts like, "if Bisan dies, I'll riot!" riot NOW. speak up, now! Palestinians and Lebanese and Syrian people who aren't going viral on social media are being murdered by the occupation in the 100s everyday. I am begging people to stop hingeing their faith in the free Palestine movement and the movement to end the Zionist occupation on individuals. I love Bisan and Motaz and Plestia with all my heart and pray for them every day, but I'm begging people not to reframe Palestinian liberation through individualism. Support BDS, donate to UNRWA or the Red Crescent Society, listen to Palestinians across Palestine and the diaspora. Your belief in the freedom of Indigenous peoples has to transcend the ones most visible and palatable to you.
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