Messages of support and strength from Rafah, Palestine to the US student movement.
34,000 deaths is clearly an appalling undercount when watchdog groups learn about mass graves like this every week.
"Here are your tortured poets. All from Mahmoud Darwish to Dr. Refat Alareer to Khaled Juma, these are tortured poets. Tortured by longing for a home they can never return to, tortured by the world they were born to for BEING BORN. Palestine, home to the tortured poets department." [@/folkoftheshelf on X. April 20th, 2024.]
Another aspect of the Gaza Genocide that I want to talk about is the complicity of Internet banking and crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe.
I have seen multiple Gazans raise enough money to leave for Egypt, but the banks and the crowdfunding websites freeze their money or cancel their funds for "suspicious activity" or whatever. Every day that passes in Gaza supplies get more scarce, conditions get more deadly, and the price to cross into Egypt gets more expensive. I've seen people, like ghost-90 here on Tumblr, raise the full amount to get their entire family out of Gaza, but their money gets frozen for so long that the original goal is only a fraction of the price now needed to cross the boarder.
These financial institutions should not be allowed to get away with contributing to the death toll in Gaza. They are intentionally keeping people trapped in a kill zone by withholding money that is rightfully theirs.
I'm so pissed and angry that every avenue for relief for Palestinians is being cut of left and right. It is vile that Gazans are being extorted for 10s of thousands of dollars by the Egyptian gov just to save their family's lives, but even when they play by this corrupt game, the world still finds a way to make them suffer.
My heart is with every Palestinian for the rest of time, from river to sea you will all be free. 🇵🇸❤️
The fact that there are less protests is absolutely heartbreaking.
But I guess that’s what happens when every social media app tries to suppress information. People eventually start to lose interest.
Don’t stop talking about what is currently happening in Palestine!
I am Hani Al-Sharif from Gaza 🍉. I support a family of 7 people. My wife and children (Tala, Razan, Lina, Saba, and Muhammad). I have a gofundme campaign that I created for my daughter Razan, who lost her hearing in the war and needs a cochlear implant, and also to protect my family from hunger, and get them out of the danger of the war in Gaza 🍉. We live in very difficult circumstances. Help me, we are still far from achieving our dream. I hope everyone will donate even a little. I am confident that you will stand with me and support me until I achieve my daughter’s dream of regaining her hearing again Share my story 🙏
Vetted 👇 nabulsi and @ el-shab-hussein@ My name.@hani ibrahim on Vetted Gaza Fundraiser List Number (228
منتجات واي اطفال ( تالا ورزان ولينا وسابا ومحمد ) لدي حملة gofundme اطلقتها من اول ابنتي رزان التي سمعتها في الحرب وتحتاج الى زراعة وحاجة والمرض المزمن وخراجهم من خطر الحرب في غزة 🍉. تجارب صعبة جدا ساعدتني مازلنا البعيد عن تحقيق حلمنا أتمنى من الجميع التبرع ولو بالقليل انا واثق انكم ستقفون معي بدعموني حتى حقق حلم ابنتي باستعادة سمعتها عدة مرات وشاركوا قصتي
النابلسي و@الشاب-حسين@
اسمي.@ هاني ابراهيم
على قائمة جمع التبرعات في غزة تم التحقق من هويتي رقم (228)
Among those arrested in Atlanta today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University. You can hear her ask the PhD student taking the video:
“Can you call the Philosophy Department office and tell them I’ve been arrested?...I’m Noelle McAfee, I’m Chair of the Philosophy Department”