In every day I try to appear strong in front of my family… but the truth is that life has become harder than I can describe.
There is no home to protect us like before, and no job to return to at the end of the day.
All I want now is to provide water, food, and medicine for my family.
I write these words because sharing my story might reach someone who can lend a helping hand.
Sometimes a word, a share, or a small act of help can change the life of an entire family.🙏💔
@usama971 Dear Usama, what I wrote to Omar is true for you too. You don't deserve this suffering and hardship. 💔😔 You deserve better.
I wish that we had the power to end this evil and that we had the resources (money, time, attention) to support all Palestinian families in the capacity that you need for a life in dignity. But at the moment, we unfortunately have neither the necessary power nor sufficient resources. 💔 But we will keep fighting for you and supporting you.
Much love and solidarity for you. ❤️🫂🇵🇸
@[email protected] Dear Omar, I'm so sorry for all the suffering you are forced to endure. 💔 You are a human being, no less than I am. The only difference between you and me is that I had a bit more luck regarding the country in which I was born. You haven't done anything to anyone and yet you are punished. I totally understand why you wish you were born somewhere else just so you wouldn't have to suffer so much. From afar, none of us understands your situation. But we do have empathy with you, I assure you. If you come from Instagram or Bluesky or any other social media, I understand that you think people hate you. They are controlled by profit-seeking corporations. Here on Mastodon though, we are free from that. I assure you that people here on Mastodon don't hate you. Except for a very small minority of misinformed or hostile people, people on Mastodon don't hate you. We have compassion for you. It's just that there's almost 200 verified #GazaVerified families asking for money and at least 50 families who couldn't have been verified yet because #GazaVerified is run by a team of volunteers who do this beside the job they need to have to donate to you. We are not enough volunteers to finance 250 families when the prices keep ever increasing due to wartime profiteering. We don't actively ignore you, we just aren't enough volunteers to look after every family every day. 💔😔 Although we assuredly would like to. Many of us volunteers are poor ourselves and have only little or no money to give. Financially, this explanation doesn't change anything for you. But perhaps it's a light in the darkness for you to know that you are not hated. There are actually a lot of people who have compassion for you. ❤️ There are just so many Palestinians impacted by this genocide that neither our time nor attention suffices to speak with everyone individually. 💔 We instead constantly share this website so that every Palestinian (including you) is supported: https://gaza-verified.org/donate This is the only sustainable way for us to ensure that everyone in the ever-growing number of #GazaVerified families is supported. Much love and solidarity to you. ❤️🫂🇵🇸 You are a human. You did nothing wrong. You don't deserve this. You deserve better. You aren't hated here.
usama from gaza 🇵🇸🍉
David Culley