Trapped family in Gaza appeals for help to survive🆘🆘🍉

I am Monis from Gaza, from a family of 8, I am a cancer patient and my wife is a liver patient

I need to receive treatment quickly, but I cannot because of the war on Gaza. The health situation is very difficult, and I need your help to travel outside Gaza and receive treatment for cancer،

I we have nothing left and are unable to secure our basic needs such as food, water and safe shelter، I cannot provide young children with clothes or anything to make them forget the cruelty of war، Winter is coming and I am unable My family's needs

is our story - On October 7, our lives changed forever. My family and I left our home to southern Gaza, hoping to return soon, but that did not happen. Our home was surrounded and then completely destroyed. Our home, which was once a bastion of hope, is now in ruins, a stark reminder of our shattered dreams.

I appeal to the entire world to hear my and my family's sad cries in Gaza. We need a helping hand to In leaving Gaza and receiving treatment for cancer, I hope you will help me

The goal of the donation campaign is to help us secure livelihoods by providing food, water, and shelter (a place to sleep). I am a cancer patient. Medicines must be provided to receive treatment as soon as possible. Medicines are not available in Gaza due to the war. We must travel abroad. The situation is difficult. I want you to help us. I hope so. From you and thank you

If each person gave $10, you would help us live in the difficult conditions in Gaza

The most difficult decision for us was to leave our country, to leave Gaza, overcome the obstacles we faced and the losses we suffered, and begin a new life from scratch.

Vetted

Baddawi Refugee Camp, Lebanon, 1983. Photo by George Azar.

War photographs often share a tendency to postpone or complicate basic legibility. What sense can one make of Azar’s image of an old man weeping uncontrollably after a bombardment as children who have only known war crowd at the windows, seeming puzzled by his sadness. (x)

More details about this photograph and others by George Azar in the documentary Beirut Photographer.

West Beirut, Lebanon, 1984. Photo by George Azar.

George Azar’s poignant shot of Jawkal, a young teenager, who is sitting alone, despondent after having lost his family to an Israeli bombing in southern Lebanon, not knowing, of course, that soon afterwards he will lose his own eyesight in another attack. (x)

More details about this photograph and others by George Azar in the documentary Beirut Photographer.

The most jarring experience out of all of this is how Israel had terrorised and traumatised multiple generations across the years. In Gaza, we saw children being displaced from their towns, holding hands with their grandparents who swore this was worse than what they had experienced during the Nakba. In Lebanon, parents are having to repeat what their parents had done in previous Israeli aggressions to try to keep them safe, but this time it's with their own children and now aging parents.

at the beginning of the genocide i used to make a lot of posts encouraging people to speak up and thanking people for speaking up, because i know a lot of people were intimidated by manufactured complexity about the middle east, and a lot of people were scared of repercussions. and then i stopped, because it started to feel really dehumanizing to be thanking allies for the bare minimum, and because i was tired, and because i was distracted by the scope of loss

but now i've noticed that as things have gotten worse, as so many of the things we asked you to speak up before they happened have come to pass, people are actually less likely to talk about palestine than they were ten months ago. now that it's palestine and lebanon, now that it's genocide and carnage, now that it's clear that the rule of law really doesn't apply equally no matter how much people protest and how much evidence they compile, now that people are criminalizing free speech and actively inviting authoritarianism simply to curb protest on palestine, i've noticed a withdrawal that isn't just exhaustion, but also disillusionment. and unfortunately this has left the onus on the most vulnerable to continue to be the most visible

so let me get back to it. yes, it is the bare minimum and it is small. yes, it can be more complicated now with an election you care about coming up soon. yes, things are very bleak. but i've said it before. this isn't a short term process. this is the long haul. there is no button that ends a genocide, there is only a lever we are all collectively pulling together.

the least and most you can do is speak up. i will give you concrete examples: when you see a post that dehumanizes arabs, a post that ignores genocide, a post that justifies massacres, you actually should object to that. it's not nothing. this is the rhetoric that allows these wars to continue, as poisonous as overt warmongering is covert normalizing with warmongering, is ignoring the genocide in gaza and the massacres in lebanon, and all the other overreaches of the US war machine. when you see people being unfairly targeted for being pro-palestine, you should still support them. when you see the things you love—movies, celebrities, literature, publishers, companies—supporting genocide, normalizing israeli war crimes, ignoring the sheer amount of suffering in the world, ignoring the wars happening with your taxes, you should still speak up against them. this isn't something you stop doing. this is now something you live with, the way you live with every other principle you hold dear, whether it comes to racism, to homophobia, to kindness, to cruelty, to keeping libraries open, to keeping children alive.

if you remember that this is injustice, then you have a role. your role is to remind people. they haven't forgotten that they are committing injustice, they're hoping you have. and the least you can do, the very least you can do, is remind them that you haven't.

May no Israeli soldier return breathing after setting foot in Lebanon or Gaza.

african migrant workers are being abandoned by rich lebanese families who have evacuated the genocide. some employers have denied them access to their passports and forced them to stay in their houses in lebanon. when these workers escape to shelters they are kicked out. some of those workers have died in the israeli bombings.

the anti-racism movement (arm) is fundraising to help support migrant workers during this time.

arm-lebanon's instagram

donate here

larger document compiling fundraisers for marginalized people in lebanon who will be hit the hardest by this wave of the genocide

incredible how western countries can go kill and start wars with whoever they want across the world and not have to worry about being bombed to death and invaded. meanwhile everyone else has to make peace with the fact that the USA will sent drones if you do something thats not convinient for them

lebanon, syria, iraq, yemen. they are being raided or invaded because they are intervening to stop a genocide. and its not even the "governments" except for syria. whether you like hezbollah or ansar allah or etc. they're the ones actually upholding the international legal obligation to intervene against a genocide.

Three civilians have been killed and nine others wounded in Israeli strikes on Syria’s capital Damascus, state-run media has reported.

The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) earlier reported that its television anchor Safaa Ahmad was killed on Tuesday in “treacherous Israeli aggression” targeting the Syrian capital.

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Resistance News Network:

Up to this point, the resistance on the front lines in southern Lebanon continues to target zionist forces across the border, hours after the IOF declared a "ground operation." The IOF has not advanced, and there has been no incursion into Lebanon. Everything published by the zionist media, official or otherwise, or by allied Western media, is part of the zionist war effort and psychological operation. None of it should be regarded as factual in any way, as it serves only to mislead and distort the reality on the ground.

Today's list of vetted fundraisers!

1 : aymanQnnita $65 / $ 50,000

2 : aseel family £2260 / £70000

3 : amal family $90 / $ 20,000

4 : kholoud abdalhadi $830 / $27,352

5 : Rasha ibrahim €3514 / 35,000

6 : aklouk family kr62,509 / kr760,000

7 : abood alqudra €905 / €25,000

8 : reem family €5589 / €20,000

9 : diaa family £0 / £80,000

10 : abood family £643 / £50,000