a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.
care for gaza - focuses on providing food and essential supplies. donate here or here.
connecting humanity - securing internet access via donations of virtual sim cards (esims). if you can’t afford a whole plan yourself, crips for esims is a communal pool that will use your donation to purchase and maintain esims
ele elna elak - provides clean water, food, clothing, and shelter. they also have a gofundme
life for gaza - raising money for the gaza municipality to repair water and waste management infrastructure
taawon - partners with local civil organizations to provide food, water, medical care, shelter, and basic supplies
the sameer project - running various initiatives providing tents, medical care, and necessities. they have their own encampment project focused on sheltering families with children, sick and disabled members, or members in need of perinatal care
baitulmaal - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies
gaza mutual aid fund - distributes food, hygiene products, water, and other essential supplies, including financial support. run by @/el-shab-hussein’s amazing friend Mona. updates can be found on her instagram.
hygiene kits for gaza - provides hygiene supplies including menstrual products, wipes, and toothbrushes/toothpaste
anera - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, hygiene supplies, medicine, blankets and mattresses, and psychological care
dahnoun mutual aid - provides water, food, tents, baby supplies, financial support, and other necessities. updates can be found through their instagram
certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn’t include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.
Right now we have 7 kitchens running in and around Gaza City, 5 water trucks delivering fresh water every morning, and our health clinic is still seeing patients.
Sadly, our classroom was bombed—but we’ve pivoted to something bigger:
Delivered 4,250 food parcels so far; another 2,550 parcels ready to go; in the middle area, we delivered 600 parcels and opened a new kitchen; we keep showing up for hospitals with meals.
Each food parcel = 40–60 meals. It’s not just about helping one family—it feeds whole networks of relatives, neighbors, and displaced people.
In doing this, we’re also showing the world (and the bad actors watching us) that you can give away a lot of food in Gaza without harming Palestinians. Our signage makes that crystal clear. One moving moment: we’ve been operating from inside an Orthodox and Catholic church. Families shelter there, and they benefit from the food too. Our young team—many who had never met a Christian before—are learning about unity and friendship in real time. Feeding people from a church feels like something Jesus himself would have blessed.
We hear the drones above us, and we know they don’t like what we’re doing. But we’ll keep feeding as long as we’re allowed. Our system works: families sign up on a link, we close it when full, assemble the food, and text pickup times. No chaos, no exploitation—just neighbors helping neighbors. Each distribution serves 500–1,000 people with dignity.
The notes on this one are starting to irk me. To read “Christian” or “Catholic church” and to assume that churches within Palestine!! must perforce be founded and run by people from the West just because they’re churches, or that the Christians in them must be Western, is very ignorant. Some have even leapt over what the post actually says (some of the volunteer team have never met a Christian before) to somehow assume that the volunteers are Western non-Palestinian Christians? The volunteers and the people being served are all Palestinian. There are Christians who are Palestinian (and Armenian-Palestinian, and Greek-Palestinian).
Nor are Palestinian Christians some kind of oppressor class. The social role of Christianity in the Levant is different from whatever you are used to seeing in the Christian-majority West. Christians are a marginalised community within Palestine. From an essay I wrote on the subject:
[…] The Palestinian Authority has stated an intent to try to keep Christians in the West Bank by promoting Christmas festivities. In 2022, a Nativity scene and Christmas tree were publicly displayed in مَيْدَان المَهْد (“maydān al-mahd”; Manger Square) in Bethlehem: the Catholic Church in Bethlehem lights the tree for Advent, beginning four Sundays before Christmas. A Christmas parade, with brightly lit floats carrying Christmas trees, people dressed as angels and Santa Clauses, and Nativity scenes with live actors, took place again for the first time after having been interrupted due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and was broadly attended by Muslims and Christians.
[…] During the first and second اِنْتِفَاضَات (“intifāḍāt”; singular اِنْتِفَاضَة “intifāḍa,” “uprising” or “rebellion”), the tree in Bethlehem was no longer lit due to widespread mourning—Masses continued, but not the public festivities. Instead, private celebrations would take place within the home. Some families began buying artificial Christmas trees rather than real ones, since they were easier to tuck away from windows where they would not be seen from the outside. Even after the lights returned, Israeli military border walls, checkpoints, and curfews hampered Christmas celebrations for many: Christians from Gaza need permits from the Israeli military to take pilgrimages to, or visit family in, Bethlehem and other places in the West Bank, and the majority of those requested are not granted.
So yes, the fact that the volunteer team is coming into contact with a marginalised and isolated community that they had not previously formed any personal relationships with, is a straightforwardly good thing.
You could argue that this isn’t the point when people are starving, but I think that stereotyping and false beliefs about Palestine and its supposed lack of ethnic or religious diversity are actually cornerstones of Zionist thinking. They want you to believe that Israel is destroying a one-dimensional, intolerant, fanatical society, not one in which communities of various religious, ethnic, and national backgrounds have been interwoven for centuries.
Please help my good friend Marah and her family!! They are starving to death in Gaza
Her poor mother has lost 27 kilos due to starvation and her father has lost more than 15 due to the famine. Osteoporosis treatment requires a healthy diet, and the Balousha family can not eat.
I am hosting this campaign! The funds you donate are transferred directly to the Balousha family by myself and an irl coworker. Thank you!
I’m doing all of this so that if I die, people will still remember me.
I want my photos to be in every city I’ve ever dreamed of visiting and couldn’t
Marah i want you to live to see the world. There is still hope, we love you and believe in you.
Please donate to my friend. She’s a young adult just like you and me, and we all share similar dreams. Every little amount counts. Palestine will be free. Thank you
Someone over on bluesky posted this and I figured I’d better repost it here. It’s the pre-RFK 2025 vaccination schedule for babies and young children, ya know, just in case it mysteriously disappears. Save this and give it to your child’s pediatrician; tell them this is the schedule you want your child on.
Some have suffered intestinal failure — their intestines have stopped working, they can no longer swallow, they scream in pain, and some die silently.
For over a month, the criminal Israeli occupation has blocked the entry of baby formula and therapeutic medicines, a crime that threatens the lives of thousands of sick children in Gaza.
Every passing moment is critical for more than 14,000 children in Gaza who have entered Stage 5 starvation — the most dangerous and deadly level of hunger. Baby Ronza, Zeina’s sister, hasn’t received any baby formula or substitutes for over 15 days.
I want to take a moment to share Zeina’s family campaign. Zeina is my friend, a child from Gaza whose family is living in devastating conditions due to the ongoing siege and escalating hunger.
I shudder when people say “I don’t know how we got here” as if the past 650+ days of genocide weren’t literally televised, during which Israel committed daily atrocities, experimented with all kinds of violent death, reshaped the entire world’s perception of what is now deemed acceptable in the form of collective punishment, and destroyed all red lines to see how far they can go with complete impunity, and to see how far they can go before the world erupted in anger and collective action. It didn’t. And that’s exactly how we got here.
This isn’t a donation post. I just need people to read this.
I keep saying “It’s dire” and it keeps getting even worse. I don’t even know what I’m asking people to do, just that I don’t want this to happen in silence. I want everyone to know this.
I received these messages from my friend Anas, and soon all my other friends in Gaza started crying from the same ache: there is no food in Gaza.
The gist of the messages, shared with permission, until I translate more thoroughly:
Used to be that the problem was that aid was being sold (instead of just given, as it should be) for ridiculous prices. Now there isn’t even food to sell!
Most people in Gaza have now gone at least a day without eating. Many of my friends have gone multiple days.
We are now on a timer before hundreds drop dead unless food is allowed into Gaza. This is not hyperbole. This is a countdown to death unless something changes very, very soon.
just an hour ago MEE reported that at least 67 people were martyred by the genocidal entity of israel while they were waiting for aid trucks in northwest gaza.
(to anyone reading, please consider donating to shaima and tahrir, or at the very least share their campaigns. their families depend on it.)
If aid does not enter to Gaza Strip within the next 48 hours — especially baby formula and flour — then prepare yourselves for the largest mass death crime in history.
I swear to you that our children go to sleep hungry and wake up hungry and screaming from extreme hunger
Little children can’t bear it anymore. Oh God, they are dying in front of us and their parents. Why are we suffering like this? What does it have to do with us? Why are you killing us with hunger?
🇵🇸 save family lost their home ,dreams and everything in Gaza 🇵🇸
This is my home before the war and after the war how it became💔💔💔
Before: After:
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.
We are asking you with all shame to support and stand by us in these difficult circumstances that everyone knows because we lost our home, our work and any stable source of income. Thank you all.
Guys July is underway & I want everyone to start it off by donating however much they can to the Sameer Project, just as I will be doing right now. Please share this & send it to your friends & encourage chain donations. I’ve been looking at this fundraiser goal every now and then, and it’s bizarre to me how it barely moved over the last few weeks. Please spread the word!!!
Literally never going to not talk about this & hate how everyone is just shamelessly not caring now!!! Please share this resource & help raise funds for the Sameer Project!!!!!!!!
