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Want to help Gaza and Lebanon with a #donation?

You may look at:

* gaza-verified.org/donate/ (thanks @aral @gazaverified)

* amel.org/ (recommended to me by a displaced student in Lebanon)

and of course:

* en.emergency.it/ (by the great #GinoStrada)
* donate.unrwa.org/int/en/gaza (#Gaza)
* donate.unrwa.org/int/en/lebano… (#Lebanon)

(they all worked for me, except AMEL which uses PayPal and UNWRA: both refused my debit card payment)

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Aral Balkan
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PS. Gaza Verified wouldn’t be possible without our lovely team of volunteers: gaza-verified.org/team/

Gaza Verified

We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan
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Luca Alloatti
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Luca Alloatti
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PS: something is still buzzing in my head after the videocall with the student in Lebanon: she uses an outlook.com email, and said it's very popular there.
I tried to argue that this hands intelligence data straight to the enemy.

I also heard that Gaza's cellular network is fully under Israeli control.

Are we really witnessing such a blatant case of the attacked population handing pervasive intelligence data right into the mouth of their attackers?

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Luca Alloatti
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Luca Alloatti
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On the other hand, I am not surprised. Any serious intelligence agency would exploit exactly this opening.

The opening itself is the problem, and we Europeans allowed it to be built -not only in Gaza, but across Europe too.

Peace today passes through technology more than most people think -and I am constantly hitting a wall when I try to communicate this.

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Aral Balkan
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I hear you.

And yes, almost all their communication passes through enemy hands.

I’ve been trying to get them to use Signal with mixed success.

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Luca Alloatti
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Admirable that you try, and I can imagine the mixed success.

Under the present conditions of Gaza and Lebanon, the only contribution I can imagine that survives a basic reality check is a "digital self-defence" booklet/pdf with practical and realistic advice for the general public + advanced explanations (yet very concise) for the nerds.

The booklet concretely links each individual's behaviour to the consequences of the war, so the reader cannot dismiss the content.
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