Three days ago, the Israeli military dropped flyers ordering displaced people and residents of Rafah to leave. In the orders where people were told to move out of Rafah, the military said it was “about to operate with force against the terror organisations in the area”. A UN estimate says there are 1.2 million people sheltering in dire conditions in Rafah, Gaza's southern city. The "full-blown famine" that has taken hold in the north of Gaza has spread to the south, Cindy McCain, the head of the World Food Programme, confirmed over the weekend. There are roughly 200 Palestinians that are being forcibly displaced from Rafah every hour, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) said on Wednesday. During an online press briefing, medical doctors and humanitarian aid workers reporting from the ground in Gaza spoke about the impossible feat of moving people from Rafah, as people are ridden by famine plus a collapsed transportation and healthcare system. "There are children and elderly that are so starved that they can barely walk. These people cannot just relocate to another area, to so-called 'safe zones'. It is not possible," Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy from Save the Children, said. Several aid workers have expressed that there is no "safe" area in the Gaza Strip for people to relocate to. "The concept of safe zones is a lie," Helena Marchal, from Medecins du Monde, said. Aid workers also reiterated the difficulty of getting aid both into Gaza and then distributing it. Both the Rafah and the Kerem Shalom crossings, through which most aid reached the besieged Strip, have closed since Sunday evening. Roads across Gaza are largely destroyed or blocked by people sheltering, contributing to the difficulty of movement of both goods and people. Only a very limited number of routes, especially between the north and south, are available for humanitarian use, Jeremy Konyndyk, from Refugees International, explained. Another issue is overcrowding. "In Deir al-Balah and the Mawasi area on the outskirts of the Rafah and Khan Younis governorates, there is barely any space. There are tents everywhere, on the beach, on the sidewalks, the streets, the graveyards, the courtyards of the hospitals, in the courtyards of the schools," Ghada Alhaddad, from Oxfam International, said. Saieh explained that it took her team six weeks and four failed attempts to move a couple of hundred food parcels from Rafah to the north of Gaza. "One litre of fuel cost $40 yesterday," according to Ranchal. Fuel enters through the Rafah crossing. If the fuel is cut off, the aid operation collapses," Konyndyk said.
I send you greetings and continuous thanks to everyone who cares and reads my blog and helps me to spread it to many friends, relatives and loved ones.
Exhaustion and mental and physical fatigue are still hanging over us all, as we are in Gaza, caught in the painful conflict and besieged by everyone, which needs continuous support.
Even the arrival of support and emergency humanitarian aid, including foodstuffs, had to stand by the crossings for long periods;
, which until now has reached two consecutive months without entry and often spoiled due to poor storage, and if it enters, it becomes unfit for use and if some people eat it, they contract many diseases, including poisoning, malnutrition and intestinal flu.
Life has become difficult and tiring for everyone, including me and my family.
Our day became like this.
I wake up early to the sounds of explosions and go to get some food. I stand in the queue to get a little bit of it and we are exposed to the rush and crowding, which causes some suffocation and some fractures for many people, children and the elderly.
Sometimes I get some food that is not enough for my family and not enough for many people who can get it and sometimes I can not get it despite waiting 8 hours continuously.
This is the life of everyone in Gaza and perhaps some news stations and social media illustrate a small part of my suffering and the suffering of the people of Gaza.
The tragedy is equal for everyone, but obtaining food and food remains a hope for them. We often go to bed and cannot do so because of the lack of food and hunger, what about children and what about the elderly who cry until they reach the stage of sleep from the intensity of crying.
These are the conditions of my parents, if you see that
These are the conditions of my people, if you see that this is our destiny and our tight fate, together we can change this cursed destiny and we can turn this nightmare into a new dream, we need great support to form a journey of hope and patience.
The suffering continues and the famine is prolonging everyone until the continuous support meets hope and life.
Dear brother, your donation may contribute to a meal for me and my family, if you can't do that, you can do some steps for me.
1_Donate and contribute to my family's survival.
2_Share my blog to all my friends.
3_Repost it to all the people on all the social media sites.
Your donation, no matter how small, means a lot to us and may grow and grow. I know that you can do any of the steps that I mentioned to say that I am a human being and ethics will never go away.
I am grateful to everyone who has seen my blog and made sure to pass it on to everyone.
please keep talking about rafah. we're on the precipice of one of the darkest unfoldings in human history. please pray for rafah.
Hello, I’m Ahmed from Gaza😔😔
Life here is filled with daily challenges due to the ongoing blockade and war. My family struggles to secure our basic needs. My parents are ill, and my children suffer from malnutrition due to a lack of food and clean water😥😭😭
I haven’t lost hope, but the war has worsened our situation, making it harder than I can handle alone. That’s why I’m reaching out for your help. Every donation can make a difference by providing food and clean water for my family👨👩👦👦
We have been through many wars before, but this war was not like the ones before it. Our lives were turned upside down. We became displaced from one place to another. We are the Anas family, residents of northern Gaza, specifically in the Shujaiya area. In the first week of the war, we fled our home because everyone considered our home to be in a dangerous area. We moved to the Rimal area, specifically in the middle of Gaza. There, we received the news that our home, which contained all our beautiful memories, was bombed. Suddenly, it was gone!!! Just thinking that your home, which you worked hard on and built from scratch and took a lot of your life, was gone in less than a second ! After a while, we left the sands to the Al-Zawaida area because of the heavy shelling. We stayed there for about two weeks, and then the terrorist army asked us to go to Rafah. We actually fled for the fourth time to Rafah and stayed there for two months, some of the most difficult days of our lives, as there was no way or means to live a normal life. 😔😔 After that, because of the invasion of Rafah, we moved to Deir al-Balah. Now, we are in very difficult and oppressive circumstances.
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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Please share this!!! We need to help this famoly they are in so much danger, please donate or share. Their gofundme is here and on their profile.
Switching my language from “Israel is detaining Palestinians in the West Bank” to “Israel is abducting Palestinians in the West Bank” because that’s actually what’s happening. They are not detainees. They are hostages. Innocent Palestinians get taken from their homes randomly, held up in detention centers indefinitely, and subjected to the cruelest conditions on no basis other than “you might do something bad in the future, so we have a right to imprison you.” This is what Israel calls administrative detention—and through it they have managed to get away with kidnapping hundreds of innocent Palestinians.
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imagine you are texting with a friend and suddenly they tell you that a house near them was just hit with a bomb. in the middle of your conversation. to be more specific, think of the last friend you texted, open up your messages even and look, and think about how you would feel if that happened. how would they feel?
this just happened while i was talking with @nesmaah. she and her family are in constant danger and their only chance of escaping it right now is to get enough money to leave gaza. i'm leaving their fundraiser below. please share and donate if you can. these are real people who are in danger right now, who are suffering, who are trying to live despite the circumstances. do not forget that every single person asking for help is a person just like you and your loved ones.
Okay so this is Aala, one of the main characters of Onto the Horizon. She’s the perspective character of book 1 (Tides of Change) and is Nila’s older sister. Aala is a finaalin, a species native to the ocean planet of Ocera. She can channel water magic like most of her species can and loves to create music, but often does not have the time to do so due to her duties as a princess. She loves Nila dearly, but when Ocera is invaded by the Intergalactic Alliance, she’s forced to flee with her sister leaving the rest of their family behind. Aala is willing to do anything to keep Nila safe, even if that means working with the Insurgency.
Btw, I’m just doing quick headshots for these introductions as I was originally going to do a full group shot but that is taking longer to finish than I had hoped so quick drawings it is.