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hindi panghabang-buhay ang dilim

@we-are-made-of-stories / we-are-made-of-stories.tumblr.com

—sisikat din ang araw.
amihan. she/her. xviii. filipino-chinese.
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This evening, my children fell asleep hungry because there was no proper food for them. We also walked for three hours to save drinking water. The place was inhumane and the water was polluted, but there was no other choice. Please help me cover travel costs for me and my family. War life is very tiring, especially my children who suffer every day due to lack of food, medicine and hospitals. Please keep sharing and donating as much as you can, every $5 can help us escape to a safe place and start a new life.

This evening, my children fell asleep hungry because there was no proper food for them. We also walked for three hours to save drinking water. The place was inhumane and the water was polluted, but there was no other choice. Please help me cover travel costs for me and my family. War life is very tiring, especially my children who suffer every day due to lack of food, medicine and hospitals. Please keep sharing and donating as much as you can, every $5 can help us escape to a safe place and start a new life.

The food consists of unhealthy expired cheese and overcooked canned foods that are not suitable for cooking.

Please follow Mohammed's blog and keep reblogging their family's gofundme link. Donate whatever amount you can.

Mohammed is one of the journalists who help bring us news and images of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Let's give back to him for his heroic efforts by helping save his family's lives and providing for their needs.

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Throughout the first five months of the war, both my big sister and my sister in law had been pregnant. They had to endure constant displacement and unspeakable horrors on top of pregnancy discomforts. The few times I was able to reach my sister, she would keep praying not to go into labor before that nightmarish reality ended.

Sadly, things did not go her way. The war was raging when she gave birth to beautiful baby Ossama, and it still is ongoing. Almost at the same time my brother and his wife had sweet baby twin girls, Ritaj and Rital. The three little angels are rocked to sleep by the sound of bombs and buzzing drones instead of lullabies. Due to the unsanitary conditions in their tent and formula scarcity, the newborns have been constantly suffering from acute respiratory infections as well as slow weight gain. The only medical care they were getting was that of an overcrowded field hospital with limited resources, and even that is now denied to them as my family has been forcibly evacuated again from Rafah to Khan Yunis where nothing is left but rubble.

As you may well know, many babies in Gaza are lost while waiting for consideration. The doctors previously insisted that the little ones would fail to thrive and fully recover if they stayed in the same unhealthy environment.

Despite everything, these babies are a source of hope and strength for us. Please don't let them fade away. My family is barely holding on for their sake and that of their older brothers and sisters.

We would be forever grateful for any kind of support.

Please donate if possible and reblog as often as you can 🙏

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sayruq

Please help save these babies

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Found out a group of fifth graders are doing a school strike for the children in gaza and sitting outside their school all day with home made signs and banners and palestinian flags. We’re having an unusually warm spring, hot enough for it to be on the news, and those little kids are sitting outside in the heat for hours so I brought them lemonade and cut up a lot of watermelon, apples, and strawberries for them and a lot of other people have brought water, icecream, fruit, support etc. and now I’m extremely emotional on the bus home. Eleven year olds are braver than most of our politicians and so many adults. Children make me feel hopeful

This!! Last monday in Montreal there was a protest for Palestine by a group of anarchists who blocked a street. A small group of kids were walking by and stopped to chant with them for most of the protest, until the police got there and protesters told the kids to go further so the cops wouldn’t hurt them. The kids went to a nearby park and kept watching the protesters. These kids are the future ❤️

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hi friends! this is another verified fundraiser from a friend of mine and it's SO close to hitting its goal i'm pretty sure we could do it today (it's only 5k!)

my friend has been fundraising to get a family out of gaza and they've already evacuated the mother and her two small children to egypt, but the father stayed behind to let them go first. they're fundraising to get him out once the border is open again. please donate if you can, share if you can't, it really is so close!!

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White people always talks about fascism and colonization as things of the past like “don’t blame us for the actions of our ancestors” like their taxes money isn’t funding genocide in the global south right now

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ibtisams

Hi, Can you please share my campaign and I can provide anything to verify it . I am Marah , 23 year old .. I am away from my family in Gaza. Please Help me reunite with my family. And Save them from the inevitable evil they face every single day https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-help-us-to-evacuate-from-the-genocide Thank you from the bottom of my heart

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This is a legitimate gofundme me that is extremely low on donations, it’s at less than €1,000.

I just donated €5, can anyone match it?

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You should be furious that people trying to escape genocide in Gaza, Sudan, Congo all need raise an absurd amount of money just to survive

You should be furious at how these people went through atrocity after atrocity and still need raise tens of thousands of dollars to get away

You should be furious at this insidious thing that completely encapsulates how capitalism feeds off of blood

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pal1cam

Pieces of media to watch to educate yourself on Palestine’s long history of suffering from the zionist Israeli occupation :

  1. “Jenin, Jenin” a documentary by Mohammad Bakri (available on Youtube)
  2. “200 meters” a movie by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)
  3. “Born in Gaza” a documentary by Hernán Zin (available on Netflix)
  4. “Samouni Road” a documentary & animation by Stefano Savona (available on Netflix and Palestine Film Institute’s website)
  5. “Edward Said on Palestine (1988)” a TV documentary style film by Christoper Skyes (available on Youtube)
  6. “To My Father (2008)” a documentary style film by Abdel Salam Shehada (available on Palestine Film Institute’s website)
  7. “Salt of this sea” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)
  8. “Children of Shatila” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)
  9. “The Present” a short movie by Farah Nabulsi (available on Netflix)
  10. “Frontiers of Dreams and Fears” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)
  11. “The Crossing” a short film by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)
  12. “Tantura” a documentary by Alon Schwartz (available on Youtube)
  13. “3000 nights” a movie by Mai Masri (available on Netflix)
  14. “Farha” a movie by Darin J. Sallam (available on Netflix)
  15. “Arna’s Children” a documentary by Juliano Mer-Khamis (available on Youtube)
  16. “Ma’loul celebrates it’s destruction” a documentary by Michel Khleifi (available on Youtube)
  17. “A World Not Ours” a documentary style movie by Mahdi Fleifel (available on Netflix)
  18. “Like Twenty Impossibles” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)
  19. “Omar” a movie by Hany Abu Assad (available on Netflix)
  20. “Mars At Sunrise” a movie by Jessica Habie (available on Netflix)
  21. “5 Broken Cameras” a documentary by Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi (available on Youtube)
  22. “Aida Returns” a film by Carol Mansour (look for upcoming screenings through this link)

[this list will constantly be updated with more movies & documentaries that i’m reminded of, or with new pieces that i find and watch… if you have any suggestions please send them my way]

PS ; as this is a personal list coming from a Palestinian person, i will only be adding the movies and documentaries that i feel are MOST important and effective in transferring the message of the Palestinian cause… so all recommendations are highly appreciated yet this is just a personal list and doesn’t include all types of Palestinian (or Palestinian related) visual media 🙏
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ilajue

hey reminder to continue boycotting eurovision and instead turn your eyes on gaza where the last media outlet al jazeera has just been shut down so that Israel can launch its attack on the most densely populated area in the world without scrutiny. Dont stop talking about Palestine

(dont put this guy on blast, i cropped URL out on purpose)

lets use this as an opportunity for learning and growth guys. By platforming Israel, Eurovision legitimizes and enables their genocide. In the same way that Russia has been banned from participating from the Olympics in an act of solidarity with Ukraine, Eurovision had the opportunity to stand in solidarity with Palestine. Instead, they have chosen to associate themselves with Israel, a violent colonial state, uplifting them to an international stage to do pr for themselves.

In the same way, all contestants in Eurovision had the opportunity to condemn Israel or call for their removal from the competition. I'm sorry because I know people get a lot of joy from the music but in a situation as dire as Palestine neutrality is functionally the same as complacency.

I ask you to boycott Eurovision in solidarity with the 34,535 Palestinians who have lost their lives in the last few months. The 77,704 who have been wounded. The 1.5 million survivors, most of them displaced and mourning, who are packed into Gaza right now. Have the empathy and willpower to be serious for like 10 seconds and recognize that you can find entertainment elsewhere.

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