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olive harvest in turmusaya, palestine (2022)

melissa barrera (the actress who got fired from the scream franchise for being pro palestine) has started a fundraiser with unrwa!

Can confirm that the above link leads to the official US website for UNRWA!

And here's a reason for hope: the fundraiser is blasting away. They just made $50,000 in the past 3 days - let's keep it going!

"Wait, hold on, I don't know what's going on here"

What's the UNRWA?

"The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, employs thousands of staffers and provides vital aid and services to millions of people across the Middle East. In Gaza, it has been the main supplier of food, water and shelter to civilians during the Israel-Hamas war."

-via PBS, January 29, 2024

If their funding is from the UN and various countries, what's up with this fundraiser?

A massive amount of UNRWA's budget was just cut in the middle of a humanitarian crisis, as the US and a number of other countries cut off aid to UNRWA completely.

palestinians were massacred and bombed to drive them out of the north of gaza, and they were told that the south was safe. then israel wiped out the south of gaza and promised safe evacuation if palestinians fled to rafah which is now being violently bombed as well. if israel's goals aren't clear here, i don't know what else could prove it

quds news network reported that israeli strikes targeted a mosque in the yebna refugee camp in rafah and it is no coincidence that people are saying that they are hearing less abt palestine as the days go on, well its because israel is murdering the brave journalists who have been sharing the atrocities

it’s looking like the iof have officially breached rafah. every palestinian i follow, most of whom have now been displaced to rafah, are posting that there’s non-stop bombing and sounds of clashes between the resistance and the israeli army (x, x, x). the rnn telegram is also reporting that armed clashes are taking place in northwest of the city and israeli bombing is concentrated around al-kuwaiti hospital (x, x). many martyrs already (x, x, x). in palestine, the time is currently just past 2am on 12th february 2024.

America has now bombed and conducted illegal wars in:

- Iraq

- Syria

- Libya

- Somalia

- Pakistan

- Afghanistan

- Palestine

- Yemen

But Muslims are the terrorists?

Oh my gosh

This is pure evil. They say 12 employees participated in Oct 7th so they have to stop feeding the entire population????

Here's how you can donate to UNRWA:

Thank you all so much for sharing the first version of this post. We were able to send £500 to 5 families from my village! However, we still need to fundraise for medical costs, childcare (baby formula, nappies, medicine, etc.), food, shelter, and transport! My aim is to continue sending money to families in £500 increments and start sending out email updates to those that have already been so generous by donating.

The flash floods that hit the area a few weeks ago were devastating and the brook running through the village overflowed and washed away so much of the remaining debris uprooted relief tents that were able to reach the area.

So please continue to share, donate, and post this fundraiser on your own social media accounts! Make flyers and spread through word of mouth if you can! You can always message me to double check if you’re unsure about spreading the news. 

PLEASE SHARE, DONATE, AND SPREAD ACROSS YOUR OWN SOCIAL MEDIA AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN! Thank you for your continued support.

PLEASE reblog and donate as much as you can. We’re beyond sewing and harvesting this year, we’re just trying to keep our apricot trees alive at this point.

You can also share on your own social media platforms!

Someone donated £10!! Thank you so much!!!

£2,410/£15k!!

£2,435!!

Any help leading into the colder months is much appreciated!!

We’ve just been told the locality isn’t even going to attempt to repair our two room farmhouse and are demolishing it - please continue to donate so we can get them permanent shelter!

Sharing this here, because that's where i saw people sharing about this "free link to click" -> PLEASE STOP CLICKING IT AND SHARINGIT. IT'S A SCAM, AS SAID BY THE UNRWA ITSELF (see photo of the screenshoted mails here)

(For reference, the UNRWA is the organisation where this free link site said the money was going!)

PLEASE SHARE AND RB

(if you have any questions, please use the comments so i can answer in one place)

Edit: the "/fr/" in the url is because of the language settings (french being my native language). It's not a different website... There's only one. (please look how urls work if you're not sure 🥲 /nm)

When I say Israel does not represent Judaism nor should it be tied to Judaism, this is what I mean. This is not about Judaism or religion at all. This is about an imperialist apartheid state that exploits religion to excuse its crimes and its illegitimate existence.

petition to tell biden and harris to comply with the icj’s ruling and provisional measures here if you’re a us citizen. so far they’ve sent 47,074 letters out of the goal of 51,200!

I need everyone to understand that even as Palestinians, with everything that we grew up witnessing and learning about, some of what we've been seeing unfold in Gaza is still too horrific for us to bear or wrap our heads around

Take this story for example which is still developing from yesterday (Jan 29)

Layan (15) and her sister Hind (6) were trapped in a family car surrounded by the corpses of their family members who have been targeted by Israel

Layan manages to reach the Red Crescent, who have published a recording of her final words, as she sustains a gunshot wound.

The team tries to guide her through and promises her that they are coming to help. Layan was killed, leaving her sister alone surrounded by tanks and the bodies of her family members.

The Red Crescent team that was dispatched to rescue the girls has not been heard of since (about 20 hours ago) and no one knows the fate of 5 year old Hind.

I don't have words anymore.

"This child stayed with us on the phone for more than three hours. Her words were consistently repeated: "Come take me, come take me. Send someone to take me. What time is it? How far is your house from me? Come and take me."

No news or updates on Hind yet or the rescue team that went out to save her.

This is absolutely devastating.

There's one charity that I haven't seen shared here personally, and that's Care for Gaza.

They're shared a lot on twitter as a reputable on-the-ground relief source. You can donate to their gofundme to help their efforts here.

They’re a grassroot organisation that regularly supply Palestinians with fresh food!

Hey, are you aware of the fact that many people in Gaza have resorted to cutting pieces of their tents for scraps for pads? Which as you can imagine isn't the safest option but their only option in most cases. This also applies to those going through postpartum bleeding from giving birth. If you want to or can help:

The Pious Projects - they distribute feminine hygiene kits for people in Gaza! I suggest checking it out yourself but there's various amounts you can give from $5-$1,000 to help make and distribute these kits! They cost around $25 for each kit, but every bit helps. Make sure to share the link even if you can't currently help donate today!

Oh my gosh

This is pure evil. They say 12 employees participated in Oct 7th so they have to stop feeding the entire population????

Here's how you can donate to UNRWA:

To the person who asked me something very similar in my inbox, I don't know if you also sent this to a few blogs or just me, but I think this is an incredibly important response to this question, and I hope you see this.

Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones “fake” is stupid because it’s the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it’s all fuckign carbon

It’s carbon it’s pretty and it didn’t involve slave labor what’s not to love??? Hi I’m having geology opinions tonight apparently. And I’m right

There is so much bullshit in the diamonds industry to be mad about tbh. It also ties into the bullshit of the wedding industry as a whole but we don’t have the time to unpack all that

not even going to lie, the day i learned i could get like 15 lab grown rubies the size of dimes for $20 is the day i spent $20 on rubies, and i have never once said to myself “man, i wish this cost $1,600 and the lives of eight children to produce”

We are a pro-lab-grown mineral blog here, not only is it massively cheaper but massively more ethical as well in many cases.

another very cool lab grown gem is Moissanite. It has a 9.25 on the mohs hardness scale where diamond is a 10. Moissanote also has a 2.69 refractive index in comparison to diamond’s 2.419 and here is the difference 

and the best thing about moissanite? It is all lab grown and it costs only a fraction of what diamond costs. So fuck the diamond indsutry and buy lab grown gems which cost significantly less

Also it’s just cool to think of some mad scientist lookin person doing shit against the law of the universe and making pretty gems for you. Like cmon. This shouldnt be allowed probably. But humans really be like on gOD i want some shiny an just started MAKIN em

for years people wanted alchemy, well now we have alchemy and we’re making gemstones out of it and suddenly “it doesn’t count” anymore