Kids love watching planes fly by but in Gaza it's a different story. Our children are not simply enjoying the sight of aircrafts like other babies around the world. They are just happy because if the planes are not dropping bombs on them, it means there is a chance they are delivering even the slightest amount of food they need so much. As you can see here, Omar and Salah are waving dedperately for aid planes as they are heading to aid-drop food far and deep into sea. Salah is even telling the plane to come help him. The possibility of those food parcels reaching them is little to none, but still seeing planes drop aid instead of bombs makes them somewhat hopeful.
After being dispalced again from Rafah to khan Yunis, it has become nearly impossible for my family to provide water, food and other basic necessities for their children and newborns. It is even harder for them to access humanitarian aid now that the occupation has sealed the Rafah crossing with Egypt while Israeli settlers and soldiers continue to block aid trucks at Israel's Kerem Shalom border crossing. International organizations say it has become almost impossible to deliver aid in Gaza because of the presence if the Israeli military. Despite international appeals to reopen the borders and allow humanitarian aid in, Israel keeps depriving my family and countless others of desperately needed food, water and medicine while it constantly subjects them to the torture of displacement at the same time. Airstrikes and snipershots are not the only threat to my family right now. Starvation and disease are effectively used by the occupation to further deepen our suffering and threaten the very survival of our children and families.
Your support is now needed more than ever.
Please donate when possible and reblog as frequently as you can.
We are eternally grateful to each and everyone of you 🙏
God if you've ever loved me you'll strike him dead with a heart attack or perhaps a hail of a thousand knives and hammers whichever is easier I'm not picky. XO
A lovely Gazan teacher named Dina Maliha has reached out to me to help share her campaign with you.
The Maliha family once led a humble and stable life, when everything they'd worked for was taken from them on Oct. 7th. They have faced unimaginable horror and indignity as they've been forced to evacuate from norther Gaza to the south under threat of heavy gunfire and bombing, as well as aggression from Israeli occupation forces.
They are currently raising the funds they need to evacuate their family from Gaza. Everyday that passes, their lives are all at risk, either from bombardment, or lack of food and water. Dina's mother is also chronically ill, and this difficult life they are leading is putting her at greater risk.
The Maliha family needs to raise €32,000 and the breakdown of these funds is available at the link below, where Dina's sister Nora has written more about their situation and about the Maliha siblings. They have only made €5,100 of their goal. So if you can donate, please do,and reblog/share!
You can also read more, and get updates about the situation from Dina's tumblr account @dinamaliha. Make sure to support her posts there as well.