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Hi everyone, I am looking for some urgent advice and guidance from anyone who has experience with this.

​I am currently trying to set up an evacuation crowdfunding campaign for my fiance and his family who are stuck in Gaza. However, I am facing severe logistical hurdles because of my location and banking restrictions.

​I am based in Malaysia. Because of our strict local financial regulations, most global fundraising platforms (like GoFundMe) do not support direct payouts to Malaysian bank accounts for this specific cause. To make things harder, my fiance does not have a PayPal account due to the situation on the ground.

​Up until now, I have been supporting him and his family privately by transferring funds via USDT. We even managed to pull off some small-scale humanitarian water distribution projects in his area using crypto transfers. But for a proper evacuation fund, we need a legitimate crowdfunding platform that people can trust and donate to via credit card/FPX.

​Every time I try to set up a campaign, it gets stuck or rejected at the payout verification stage.

​Has anyone from Malaysia (or Southeast Asia) successfully managed to navigate this? Are there specific platforms that accept Malaysian bank accounts for Gaza evacuations, or is our only option to find a trusted proxy/co-organizer with a US/UK/EU bank account?

​Any advice, subreddits to check out, or platform recommendations would mean the world to us. We just want to be safely reunited. Thank you so much. 🙏

The father of the family I'm helping has a hearing disability caused hearing loss after surviving a bombing. He desperately needs hearing aids to be able to work again. Is there any way of finding out how to obtain hearing aids in Gaza right now?

This article was from 1 year before the war.

https://rietjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/EN_RIET_2022_N7_Child-soldiers-in-Palestinian-groups-forced-recruitment-and-use-of-minors-as-a-violation-of-International-Humanitarian-Law_daniel-perez-garcia_art2.pdf

This internal promotional video is from 2 years before the war.

https://x.com/JoeTruzman/status/1410283600616955908

A wiki overview of Palestinian use of child suicide bombers, both in Gaza, and in the West Bank.

The one child was paid 100 New Israeli Sheckels. Equal to ~40USD/50CAD and "sex with virgins" in order to be a suicide bomber.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_child_suicide_bombers_by_Palestinian_militant_groups

I sorry to state this but what is going on in Gaza also when on in Warsaw ghettos during the German occupation of Poland. what we are seeing has very little difference to the policies of the n Government in Germany and occupied states. The people of Israel have forgotten the Holocaust and have used the experience they had to create another one. Shame Shame

I need help finding someone trustworthy to take over a fundraiser for a Gazan family that I am running. I’ve asked dozens of my friends, online activists, and people who run other fundraisers, to no avail. I have been running the campaign for a year and the mother of the family is about to have her third kid, I do not want to leave this family without someone who can help, but I also am in a point in my life where I can’t handle the strain emotionally or financially.

Any and all advice would be welcome.

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I am writing this from Gaza.

For 1,000 days, our lives have been on hold. The plans we once had, our education, our work, our homes, and the simple routines we took for granted have all been replaced by one goal: surviving another day.

We have lost people we love. We have lost our home. We have been displaced again and again. Every day begins with uncertainty and ends with the hope that we will still be alive tomorrow.

Sometimes it feels like the world has moved on while we remain trapped in the same nightmare.

If you're reading this, please remember that behind every number is a real person, a real family, and a life forever changed.

Please don't forget Gaza.

This is a different sort of request, but I am helping a young person in Gaza apply to universities for the 2027/28 academic year. In my research I have discovered that he needs an academic CV.

Had anyone in Gaza gotten into any universities or maybe you're in the process of applying to universities and could show me an example of your academic CV that you submitted with your applications?

This young man is applying to Bachelors degree programs and graduated from high school in 2023. He was accepted into the University of Palestine for Pharmacy and then the genocide started.

Conversely, has anyone helped someone in Gaza apply to universities and could give me advice about how you did that or how things went for the person applying?

Has anyone gotten someone in Gaza out to study?

I know of only one person in Gaza who has gotten into master's programs, but when I asked him to share his CV with me, he said no. So, here I am to ask for help from the wide world.

Thanks for any advice or help. Here's my Instagram account if you want to see that I am a real person (there's a video of me on my page): https://www.instagram.com/pudgeorama/

Here is my letter I e-mailed to the U.S. congressional reps for my state, the Senate Majority Leader (Senator Thune), the Chairmans of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Senator James Risch) and House Committee on Foreign Affairs (Rep Brian Mast), & the Chair of the Senate State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (Senator Lindsey Graham).

**Please take as is or make adjustments as you see fit to send to members of Congress**

Contact Us | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

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I am writing to express my profound alarm regarding the escalating humanitarian catastrophe and territorial expansion in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon, and to voice my deep disappointment regarding recent Congressional actions that fail to provide necessary oversight of U.S. military involvement and integration with Israel.

In Gaza, the situation has reached a horrific milestone, with the recorded death toll exceeding 73,000 people since October 2023. A UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry has recently found that Israeli forces have deliberately targeted and killed Palestinian children, accounting for over 20,000 fatalities established as a key element of genocidal intent. Furthermore, reports indicate a "reproductive genocide" through the systematic destruction of maternity wards, IVF clinics, and reproductive healthcare facilities, leaving thousands of pregnant women to give birth in uninhabitable conditions without anesthesia. Despite a nominal ceasefire, Israel continues to expand its military control beyond the agreed "Yellow Line" and is reportedly moving forward with plans to establish settlements in northern Gaza.

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settler violence and state-backed land grabs are forcibly displacing thousands, with over 6,200 Palestinians uprooted since January 2023. A new report reveals that 86% of these displaced families now face significantly worsened living conditions, with many blocked from accessing the agricultural lands and livestock that provide their only livelihoods. Most disturbingly, the Israeli military has begun constructing its first permanent military base in Area A (Jenin) since the 1993 Oslo Accords, signaling a long-term field presence that undermines Palestinian self-governance. This is occurring alongside the secret approval of dozens of new settlements and the retroactive legalization of illegal outposts through "state land" designations.

The crisis has now fully extended into Lebanon, where the Israeli invasion that began in March has already claimed over 4,000 lives. Despite international calls for restraint, Prime Minister Netanyahu recently stated that the occupation would continue indefinitely. Daily ceasefire violations persist, including airstrikes and the use of stun grenades against farmers and residential areas in southern Lebanon.

Given these realities, I am deeply disappointed by the House Rules Committee’s decision to block a floor vote on the bipartisan amendment introduced by Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna. This amendment sought to remove Section 219 of the NDAA, which would facilitate an unprecedented integration of U.S. and Israeli military technology, weapons co-production, and artificial intelligence sharing. By preventing a vote, leadership has denied the American people an open debate on a provision that many argue compromises U.S. sovereignty and embeds the U.S. deeper into a foreign military apparatus.

Furthermore, I am disheartened by the defeat of Representative Rashida Tlaib’s Lebanon War Powers Resolution that would have limited the President's authority to involve U.S. forces in the war on Lebanon without Congressional approval. At a time when the risk of a "forever war" is acute, Congress must assert its constitutional authority over war-making rather than granting the executive branch unchecked power.

I urge you to reconsider the path of unconditional military integration and to support measures that prioritize humanitarian law, international accountability, and the protection of civilian life.

In response to the ongoing genocide and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and the Israeli settlement expansion and violence in the West Bank, I urge you to:

·         Support H.R.3565 Block the Bombs Act to provide for a limitation on the transfer of defense articles and defense services to Israel.

·         Support S.3634 AWARE Act to impose sanctions on Israeli officials to discourage the government from obstructing humanitarian assistance

·         Support H.R. 3045 West Bank Violence Prevention Act

·         Support H.R.7545 Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation

·         Oppose the U.S.-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative Section 219 of the NDAA

As American support for Israel plummets, it is our moral responsibility to question the continuation of U.S. financial assistance and support to their government and any proposed integration. Israel continues to violate the rights of Palestinians, international law, and U.S. laws. The U.S. Members of Congress must push to end our military support of Israel and oppose the U.S.-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.

I've been donating to a bunch of Palestinian families from Gaza for over a year, using both my PayPal and my debit card to help sustain them, but lately I feel burned out from doing donations, mostly because some of the families I donated money to kept asking me for high amounts on WhatsApp, which is stressful because I need money for a new computer to replace my current one which is currently on its last legs. I'm literally caught between a rock and a hard place.

I've been trying to share the Chuffed campaigns of said families on other socials (Twitter, Bluesky) to get other people to donate sufficient amounts, but little to no people have paid attention to them. As much as I need money, the families need just as much money for food, medical supplies and other utilities, and I am extremely unwilling to abandon these families to their fate.

I'm sorry that I sound insensitive, but I genuinely don't know how I can help people in Gaza to share their story to organizations that (for example) feed Gaza, like do I send the person and tell their story? What other aspects can I do? Thank you so much for your attention.

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We are still being bombed almost every day. Strikes continue to hit crowded areas where civilians are trying to survive.

I hope people take the time to understand what is still happening in Gaza instead of assuming everything has returned to normal.

The areas under Israeli military control have continued to expand. Today, a large portion of Gaza is inaccessible to us, forcing most of the population into the remaining areas, where overcrowding has become part of daily life.