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Please help Mohamed evacuate his family out of Gaza to safety! Share his gofundme and donate if you can!!

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$3,064/$30,000

This campaign was started by @/atute_insp on tiktok and her team Mutual Aim to collect money for the DRC, Sudan, and Tigray. The donations will be divided between the three causes. If you would like do donate but don't have the funds to donate to multiple campaigns, this is a great way to help both the Congo, Sudan, and Tigray.

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Many, many individual reports are coming in of how violent this night has been.

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The occupation army deploys new evacuation zones in the city of Rafah. Help me and my husband, you are the only hope, by donating via the PayPal wallet in the attached link.

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LGBTQ+ POLL

FIRST THINGS FIRST HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE GET OUTTA HERE

REBLOG PLZ PEEPS I WANT TO KNOW LOTS OF LGBTQ+ SUPPORTERS

#I think I may be aroacespec - definitely demiromantic but also might be demisexual too! :]

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as the eurovision final takes place this year, please take this time to instead please reblog, and donate (if you can) instead of watching:

fundraiser for selma cheurfi

help evacuate nisreen shaheen's family from gaza

bring najlaa's family to safety in canada

help evacuate dr ahmad's family from gaza

donate an e-sim to gaza here (several options available) (holafly tutorial)

donate to provide feminine hygiene kits for women in gaza

urgent evacuation for rafah's family from gaza

donate to careforgaza here (twitter) (paypal)

rescue lulu and baby adam from the siege on rafah

help firas and his family escape to egypt

an entire google doc of gofundme's for palestine

help this family evacuate from gaza

donate to the palestinian civil relief

donate to the children of gaza

please read through and support operation olive branch, a cohesive and detailed spreadsheet of fundraisers and links

donate to the palestine children's relief fund

please also reblog other aid posts (especially recent ones), or flood the tag with posts about palestine. this doesn't have to be just donation posts, but also information and updates on rafah/gaza. anything helps and make sure not to give eurovision your view or your vote! do not take your eyes off rafah.

please boost, and add other resources and links to this post.

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The difference between the eyes on Sudan in 2019 and the eyes on Sudan now in 2024.

The RSF and Sudanese Armed Forces are both playing a media game and keeping the people of Sudan in the shadows and the media is falling for it. The same way the media helped Sudanese civil society build democracy in 2019 by shedding light on their revolution, it is now keeping them detained by these autocrats by leaving them in the dark. If we do not focus on the people we will lose them.

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something you (the moderate, the two-stater, the believer in 'israeli state') do not understand is that no Palestinian is safe under any iterations of the concept of the 'israeli' state because a Palestinian implies there to be something fundamentally flawed in the colonial state of 'israel'.

how can there be such a thing such as 'israel' if there is such as a thing as 'palestine' right underneath it, between its cracks and crevices, blocked away with walls and prisons and electric fences? how can there be an 'israel' that is a state but also a Palestine that exists even without statehood, without that legitimacy offered to it on paper and in old rickety bureaucracies?

because even if i, or my parents, do not live on Palestinian land, we are still Palestinian. we do not lose that identity no matter what. and our children, our childrens children, so on so on will also be Palestinian. but 'israel'? there can be no such thing without legitimacy from the colonial network. there is no 'israel' because it does not exist in any meaningful way. the only way for 'israel' to exist is for others to lend it legitimacy.

and a colonial state, an apartheid state, cannot have it be questioned or disproved so easily. lest it lose that legitimacy. hence, the "Palestinian" is a threat to its existence. the Palestinian shows there is a possibility other than 'israel,' something that existed before and will continue to exist after. a Palestinian can lose everything — their house, their family, their limbs — but they will still be Palestinian. their identity will remain unchanged, no matter what. but an 'israeli'?

an 'israeli's' identity is tied to the legitimacy of their state, which by nature of the state, is that of supremacy and domination. without the state — the apartheid state mind you — there wouldn't be an 'israeli,' in the political sense, as there is no deeper identity beyond ben gurion, beyond herzl. there is no history of 'israel' politically beyond that of a colonial state. that is why, a threat to the state of 'israel' is a threat to the idea of domination and colonization.

the Palestinian is a threat to that because that implies a truth and a history and an idea and an *alternative* to the status quo. no, a Palestinian will never be safe if there is an 'israel.' but an 'israeli' can be safe if there is a Palestine.

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Palestinian gofundme’s with zero donations as of May 11, 2024:

URGENT: Evacuate My Diabetic Kid Out of GAZA WAR

Help Abood Evacuate Gaza, Rebuild, and Pursue Education

Saving a dental student and his family from war

Family evacuation

Help me to complete my education

We are raising 6000$ to allow Razan to leave Gaza

Save Me, So I Can Live and Continue My Life Safely

Donate to help me and my family in Gaza

They helped Abdullah's family to escape the war on

Gaza Hope: Support Belal, Ameera & Baby Hala

Help Nada and her family to survive in Gaza

Help Ayah to pursuing her education

Help Leen get out of Gaza and get the treatment

Help Ahmed Mughani's brother & companion evacuate

Urgent Appeal for Maria's Medical Treatment

Helping me and my family.

Donte to save my mother from death in Gaza

Support Hadeel for education abroad

Evacuate young Dr Oday and family from Gaza

Help Support samah Family Evacuate from Gaza

Helping me and my family get out of Gaza

A Dream Deferred: A Student's Journey from Gaza

Support Aya's Family's Journey to Safety

help me and my family evacuate from death in Gaza

Support Youssef and Afnan's Medical Journey

Help Abdallah to continue his studies and dream

Support Jamil's Journey to Heart Surgery

HELP ABDALLAH AND HIS FAMILY EVACUATE FOR MEDICAL TR

Help Ahmed and Heba Breathe Easier in Gaza

Help me treat my father, my brother, and my family in Gaza.

Help Us Escape the Horrors of War and Save Zahra’s Life

Help Hadeel to Evacuate from Gaze & Resume her Dreams

Rebuilding Dreams : A medical student's in Gaza Genocide

Donate to support us to restore our home and our lives

Please help my father to receive treatment outside Gaza

Help my family to get out of Gaza

Help Maram and her daughter!

Help treat Jud and Fares after they were injured in the Gaza

I need urgent help for my son, Louay, who has autism.

Help me evacuate Gaza and treat my hand urgently

Help Mohammed and Doaa’s Family Find Safety

Help Darren's Family Survive in Rafah

Help my aunt Wala from gaza

Help Ali and Naema get out of Gaza

Help tariq's family survive the war in gaza

Help me, my children, and my wife to leave Goza

No Survival Without You : Help Malak,And Her Family Survive

Help for my children and family life

Urgent Support for Zainab and Mais's Medical Care fom Gaza

Help Israa leave Gaza and complete its treatment

Help Zain's family evacuate Gaza so he can get medical help

Help my family to get out of Gaza

Donate for peace to us

Help me to get out of Gaza & Back to my studies

Give Sami & his family a chance to get out of Gaza

Help Baraa's family get out of Gaza and not die

Overcoming Obstacles: From Gaza to Education

Help saja to get out of gaza

Evacuate Hamoudy from Gaza for medical treatment!

Help my family escape Gaza and receive Medical aid

Help My Family In Gaza

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My Experience Buying eSIMs for Gaza by Maia Kobabe

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Full transcript below the cut:

Cover:

My Experience Buying eSIMs for Gaza 

Project organized by @ connectinghumanity_

by Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks 

Page 1 

In Fall 2023, I saw instructions on instagram for how to purchase an eSIM card and submit it to be distributed to someone in Gaza. 

Download an eSIM app-> Select Middle East as the region-> Purchase-> Screenshot the QR code-> Do not activate-> send to [email protected] 

Image of Maia looking at eir phone. “That sounds easy, I’ll buy one.” 

I emailed an Airalo eSIM QR code to gazaesims on Nov 17 2023. 

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By January 2024, it hadn’t been activated yet. I bought a second one from Nomad and sent my new QR code and resubmitted my old one. 

Image of Maia looking at eir phone. “How long does this usually take, I wonder?” 

By February neither had been activated, but Connecting Humanity kept posting about needing more. I bought a second Nomad and resubmitted all of them on February 15, 2024. 

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The Nomad eSIMs are much cheaper than Airalo, but what I didn’t realize is that they expire even if they haven’t been activated. At the end of February I decided to try a third company, Simly. Here’s a price comparison: 

AIRALO: $39 USD for 3GB, never expires 

SIMLY: $22 USD for 3GB, never expires 

NOMAD: $16 USD for 3GB, expires after 8 weeks even if unused, only offers in-app refunds 

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Connecting Humanity asks folks to wait at least 3 weeks before resending a QR code that hasn’t been activated yet. On March 7 Mirna Elhelbawi posted: 

We send EVERY esim we receive. Bear in  mind that we are dealing with people at a war zone. They might take it and get killed before activating it, they might take it and their phone gets lost or destroyed. They might take it and search for days for stable internet connection to activate it, and some of them activate it unsuccessfully due to lack of knowledge and the horrific situations they are in. ~Connecting Gaza 

By early April, my first Nomad eSIM expired unused. I resubmitted my three remaining eSIMs. 

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Suddenly, two of my eSIMs were activated on the same day! The Airalo I’d purchased 4.5 months earlier and my second Nomad. 

Image of Maia looking happy and surprised. 

Image of Maia looking very intensely at eir phone. “I have to make sure these don’t run out!” 

I began buying top-up packages immediately. 

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I felt like I had planted a seed in the fall and waited all winter for it to sprout. Seeing it activated was like watching the first new leaves break the soil. 

Image of Maia with a watering can labeled “data”, sprinkling water on two little sprouts. “Watering my eSIMs!” 

Sadly, only .07 GB of data was ever used on my Nomad. It was never used again after that first day. 

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But my Airalo has been in constant use for over a month now. I check on it every day. 

I will never know the person I am buying data for and they will never know me. But we are connected by the same strings of hope and grief that connect us all. 

Image of two hands holding a phone, which is connected to a flying kite. 

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On April 5, 2024 Connecting Humanity reported they had sent more than 250,000 eSIMs to Gaza, equivalent to approximately $6.3 million donated! You can visit gazaesims.com for more info, instructions, and discounts. Here are my referral codes: 

MAIA5367 for $3 off Airalo 

MB772 for $3 off Simly 

MAIA66GF for $3 off Nomad 

If you need more incentive, the Cartoonist Coop is doing art rewards. Visit cartoonist.coop/esims4gaza 

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Image of Maia, weighing two options. “Buying an eSIM is easy and can make a very direct impact. It can also take a lot of patience and could get expensive over time if you commit to keeping the eSIM topped up indefinitely.” 

If an immediate one time donation is more your speed, I recommend Operation Olive Branch and Gazafunds, two places to find Gofundmes aiding Palestinian families. 

gazafunds.com

@ operationolivebranch on insta

linktr.ee/opolivebranch 

-Maia Kobabe 2024 

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Mona Beniamyn is a 48 Palestinian aka a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship the demographic zionists love to tokenize

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something you (the moderate, the two-stater, the believer in 'israeli state') do not understand is that no Palestinian is safe under any iterations of the concept of the 'israeli' state because a Palestinian implies there to be something fundamentally flawed in the colonial state of 'israel'.

how can there be such a thing such as 'israel' if there is such as a thing as 'palestine' right underneath it, between its cracks and crevices, blocked away with walls and prisons and electric fences? how can there be an 'israel' that is a state but also a Palestine that exists even without statehood, without that legitimacy offered to it on paper and in old rickety bureaucracies?

because even if i, or my parents, do not live on Palestinian land, we are still Palestinian. we do not lose that identity no matter what. and our children, our childrens children, so on so on will also be Palestinian. but 'israel'? there can be no such thing without legitimacy from the colonial network. there is no 'israel' because it does not exist in any meaningful way. the only way for 'israel' to exist is for others to lend it legitimacy.

and a colonial state, an apartheid state, cannot have it be questioned or disproved so easily. lest it lose that legitimacy. hence, the "Palestinian" is a threat to its existence. the Palestinian shows there is a possibility other than 'israel,' something that existed before and will continue to exist after. a Palestinian can lose everything — their house, their family, their limbs — but they will still be Palestinian. their identity will remain unchanged, no matter what. but an 'israeli'?

an 'israeli's' identity is tied to the legitimacy of their state, which by nature of the state, is that of supremacy and domination. without the state — the apartheid state mind you — there wouldn't be an 'israeli,' in the political sense, as there is no deeper identity beyond ben gurion, beyond herzl. there is no history of 'israel' politically beyond that of a colonial state. that is why, a threat to the state of 'israel' is a threat to the idea of domination and colonization.

the Palestinian is a threat to that because that implies a truth and a history and an idea and an *alternative* to the status quo. no, a Palestinian will never be safe if there is an 'israel.' but an 'israeli' can be safe if there is a Palestine.

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Don’t stop talking about Rafah, Palestine

Illustration by Peach Canvas, 2024