Consider the slow creeping horror of a spring with no insects. The uncanny unspecified silence of the night. The emptiness and around you the whole ecosystem would be failing from the bottom up... without making a single sound.

You might make it to fall, maybe through the first winter but beyond that? When the soil fails? When most of the birds and river fish are gone?

It would be the end, but how many would notice it had begun?

Winter is brutally cold, and my younger sisters are shivering under thin blankets. Our family struggles every day just to stay warm and safe. Tents are soaked, food is scarce, and every day feels heavier than the last. I am doing my best to protect them, but I cannot do it alone. Today, I challenge myself — and ask for your help — to raise just $50 to bring warmth and hope to my family. Every dollar counts.

https://chuffed.org/project/128261-photographer-from-gaza-rebuilding-life-dreams

Winter has hit Gaza hard. Tents are flooding, the cold is brutal, and my family is fighting to survive with almost nothing. I’m trying to help them rent even a small apartment so they can stay warm and safe, but for the last 7 days… not a single donation. Not one person remembered us.
I’m still holding on, still trying, still hoping.
If you’re reading this, please—be the person who chooses to care. Your help could change everything for my family.

https://chuffed.org/project/128261-photographer-from-gaza-rebuilding-life-dreams

RE: https://mastodon.social/@joynewacc/115684234487083079

Four!! Four beautiful persons chipped in and donated and gave Nour some notebooks!!

Keep donating please, I’m sure we can do it
#gaza #genocide

Hey folks,

I’ve set up a separate account for Gaza Verified on my personal Mastodon server.

Please follow @gazaverified for newly-verified account updates, etc.

Also, please direct people to this account instead of mine for verification. (If you are asking people to apply for verification, please do so kindly and remember that all we verify at Gaza Verified is that someone is Palestinian and is either living in Gaza or, if not – e.g., if they’re in Egypt – that they are being upfront about that.)

💕 https://mastodon.ar.al/@gazaverified/115666925283436816

Hi everyone!

I’d really want to send you a lot of thanks and more hugs for your love & support,

You know how it takes a lot out of me & anyone from #gaza to be able to stand on their feet again after 2 years of #genocide destruction, blood, & tears

And u have shown a good example of a steadfast,supportive companion

My sis Nour received donations $1160, & she doesn't have much left to be able to pay the $2500 for the first semester of medical school.

Pls donate ❤️
https://chuffed.org/project/150250-please-help-noor-an-18-year-old-from-gaza-who-dreams-of-becoming-a-doctor