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Gaza's municipality is trying to raise money to fix and restore Gaza's water system. Please support them by boosting and/or donating

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Another month another set of hollow promises about having our rent covered from people that could do so easily. I'm gonna delete my other fundraising post because its more important that we get rent covered. We're two disabled trans women (and a silly cat) building a new internet, please help us survive

Venmo: agief

Cashapp: $cmder

Paypal: https://paypal.me/agieocean

$0/$1750 raised

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it is so incredibly sad to constantly see kids on instagram and tiktok who are younger than my brother have to literally beg for shelter, food, water, medicine, and their right to exist as human beings

i mean, this young girl is only ten years old, yet she is essentially responsible for convincing random people scrolling through instagram that her and her family’s life are worth fighting for

on top of that, their gofundme is not even 10% funded and time is running out, please if you can’t donate, just share

please don’t let this little girl die begging

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Aggregate news of Palestine For April 21, 2024.

Aljazeera News:

Videos show widespread damage from Israel’s deadly West Bank raids.

Blurb:

Israeli forces have killed more than a dozen Palestinians during a three-day raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp, which has left the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem in ruins. (Video embedded in article)

Nearly 200 bodies found in mass grave at hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis

Excerpt:

Palestinian civil defence crews have uncovered a mass grave inside the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza’s Khan Younis, with 180 bodies recovered so far, Al Jazeera has learned, as Israel has continued bombardment of the devastated coastal enclave for more than six months.

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In a statement late on Saturday, Palestinian emergency services said: “Our teams continue their search and retrieval operations for the remaining martyrs in the coming days as there are still a significant number of them.”

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Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, devastated Gaza’s two largest cities and left a swath of destruction across the territory.

At least two-thirds of the casualties are children and women. It also says the real toll is likely higher as many bodies are stuck beneath the rubble left by air strikes or are in areas that are unreachable for medics.

Eye on Palestine:

[Image from video, Many Palestinians holding covered dead bodies during a packed open-air funeral]

The funeral of the Palestinians who were killed by the occupation forces in Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm. (HishamAbuShadrah from instagram, reposted on Eye On Palestine)

[Image of building on fire, from video]

Israeli settlers attacked the village of Burqa, east Ramallah.

مستوطنون يهاجمون قرية برقة شرق رام الله

(From Eye on Palestine)

CNN:

Israel concludes deadly West Bank raid as war devastates Gaza.

Summary blurb:

The US House of Representatives has approved $26.4 billion in aid to Israel, as part of a wider package of foreign aid, which still needs to pass the Senate.

The Israeli military concluded one of its largest offensives in the occupied West Bank since October 7 on Sunday, saying it killed 10 "terrorists." The Palestinian health ministry and Wafa news agency said 14 people, including a child, were killed in the raid, which left a path of destruction.

Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli settlers killed an ambulance driver trying to transport Palestinians who had been attacked, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society. A spike in violence by extremist settlers in the occupied territory has led to more sanctions by the US and EU.

Strikes between Israel and Iran this month spiked fears of a widening regional conflict in the Middle East, but the two sides appear to be stepping back for now.

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more gofundmes i've found

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Hey everyone, please consider buying the 2024 itch.io Palestinian Relief Bundle- it's 373 games, game-making assets, tabletop roleplaying games, zines, and comics for a minimum of just 8 USD! They have a goal of 100,000 USD, and as of the time I'm writing this post, they have 8 more days to reach it.

Link will be in the reblog!

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shh. v sorry to ask but can you please help me get some groceries tonight. c4$h4pp & v3nm0 & p4y4l i have no food and i do not get paid until thursday. been pretty sick w allergies & asthma so its been difficult to look for other work while i also work. if u cant help or share then pls think some good thoughts for me <3

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This campaign for my uncle family ( brother of my mother) they are also displaced seeking the safety please help them by donating if you can or sharing the campaign.

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$10k until evacuation!!!

This Palestinian family is only asking for $10K to help them escape! That’s a goal that’s very manageable. Please donate, any amount counts, and if you can’t make sure to share!!!

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"In a historic “first-of-its-kind” agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.

The owners are the Haida nation, and rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits that the “Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai” or the “islands at the end of world,” always belonged to them, a subtle yet powerful difference in the wording of First Nations negotiating.

BC Premier David Eby called the treaty “long overdue” and once signed, will clear the way for half a million hectares (1.3 million acres) of land to be managed by the Haida.

Postal service, shipping lanes, school and community services, private property rights, and local government jurisdiction, will all be unaffected by the agreement, which will essentially outline that the Haida decide what to do with the 200 or so islands and islets.

“We could be facing each other in a courtroom, we could have been fighting each other for years and years, but we chose a different path,” said Minister of Indigenous Relations of BC, Murray Rankin at the signing ceremony, who added that it took creativity and courage to “create a better world for our children.”

Indeed, making the agreement outside the courts of the formal treaty process reflects a vastly different way of negotiating than has been the norm for Canada.

“This agreement won’t only raise all boats here on Haida Gwaii – increase opportunity and prosperity for the Haida people and for the whole community and for the whole province – but it will also be an example and another way for nations – not just in British Columbia, but right across Canada – to have their title recognized,” said Eby.

In other words, by deciding this outside court, Eby and the province of BC hope to set a new standard for how such land title agreements are struck."

-via Good News Network, April 18, 2024

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If you dare come at me about banning straws, I will throw you into the sun cannon. I’m disabled, I’m crippled, I need disposable plastic straws, and all those pricey ridiculous alternatives aren’t working as well. Plastic straws were invented for the disabled.

Way to shit all over a vital access need because you think straws are worse than corporate greed.

We all care about the turtles, the seals, the oceans, obviously. Notice how the easiest thing to yell about was something that would barely affect anything but appealed heavily to emotional discourse.

The disabled community is huge, and it can be joined by anyone. Most of those As Seen On TV products were invented for us. Society still mocks us and ignores us, and often outright harms us in multiple ways.

Communicate better. Listen better. But stop putting us out in the cold because you are inconvenienced by our simplest needs.

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platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine

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Old Redwall painting I did years ago that I still like :)

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Shai Davidai needs to be FIRED and de-platformed. He's a danger to Palestinian/Arab/Muslim students and allies to Palestinian liberation. That has been proven time and again.

Here is another beautiful moment/act of solidarity I wanted to share that happened on the same campus:

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(i Will go back to everlasting haitus if that GFM slows down too much btw, seeing it to its goal ASAP is my primary focus right now)

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matching donations to ezzideen's campaign!

i was able to pool and scrounge together some money and if i did the math right (i believe i did but math isn't my strongest suit these days) i should be able to match up to 200 euros in donations.

donate to ezzideen's campaign and respond to this post and i will match your donation until i run out of money! i am really hopeful that this will be able to double our impact and help ezzideen and his family out of north gaza sooner!