Rain has begun pouring over the Gaza Strip, drenching the already crumbling makeshift tents of displaced families.
Within minutes, tents across the Strip were flooded, further worsening the dire living conditions of those enduring over two years of genocide and displacement.
People in Gaza are starving as israel doing everything in the power to restrict and block entry of high energy food into Gaza.
Even frozen chicken is destroyed because Israel blocking the shipment and forcing the trucks to turn off their freezer and then wait for hours before entering
Y’all know me❤️ These days, I’m extremely busy with my household responsibilities: "preparing food, lighting the fire, & tutoring my little brother." My mom is taking care of my grandmother, who recently suffered a fracture, & I am currently the stand-in soldierin here
If you would like to support me until I can be out & find a job to help my family, here’s the donation link. (The donations for the shelter rent, & the costs of food, drink, & clothes)
Y’all know me❤️ These days, I’m extremely busy with my household responsibilities: "preparing food, lighting the fire, & tutoring my little brother." My mom is taking care of my grandmother, who recently suffered a fracture, & I am currently the stand-in soldierin here
If you would like to support me until I can be out & find a job to help my family, here’s the donation link. (The donations for the shelter rent, & the costs of food, drink, & clothes)
@joynewacc and I had the honour of speaking to three families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Dania (@danyarelkhodari) • Heba & her husband Tareq and their family (@Tareqziad) • Wafaa and her two adorable daughters, Sham and Aylul (@wafaagaza1499)
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).
Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):
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
Hello everyone, I am sharing with you the books that my sister, @Nourfuturedr, spent two years studying in order to achieve her dream of becoming a doctor.
I started pushing her campaign after my mother and I made the decision to save significantly on our food and drink expenses. This is so we can afford to cover her registration fees for the first semester of medical school.
The only flavour of decentralisation there’s no room for at FOSDEM is the kind that won’t speak at a conference that allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes, a surveillance capitalist like Google that is complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
On Saturday, over 350 cops made over 50 arrests in #TavistockSquare. The #terrorists arrested were yet again committing the deadly atrocity of holding paper signs opposing #genocide in #Gaza, and supporting #PalestineAction.
These grey-haired, elderly terrorists face lengthy prison sentences if convicted. #Starmer's govt stands firm against the #terroristThreat.
Something happened to me recently, and I don't mean to be dramatic, but it's truly a shameful thing. Two days ago, I joined the writing platform #substack & even though @aral & @fabio told me it wasn't a good platform for me, being Palestinian, I decided to interact on it and post my poems there. I was subjected to awful abuse in all verbal forms by Zionists there. But I preferred to remain silent instead of arguing with any fools. Today, the platform’s banned me!
“Since the 1960s, Labour and Conservative governments have supported or acquiesced in several cases of genocide across Africa, the Middle East and Asia”
Since the 1960s, Labour and Conservative governments have supported or acquiesced in several cases of genocide across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
@aseelfromgz and I had the pleasure of welcoming two new families to Gaza Verified today.
They are:
• Nour (@nour_s) – please send her some love as the genocidal Israeli army bombed a position near her home while we were talking • Saeed (@saeeeed)
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, donate to their fundraisers.
You can see a list of our Gaza Verified families who have Chuffed or GoFundMe accounts, sorted by those who’ve received the least in donations over the last seven days, at:
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
In an effort towards being both fair towards our friends in #Gaza and reduce the notifications/FOMO burden on donors, I have released two new bots for #GazaVerified:
@gaza_verified_accounts boosts all the posts from gaza-verified accounts. If you want to follow the stories of the families that we’re supporting but you don’t want to individually follow >70 accounts, you can follow this bot. It’s hooked directly to the Gaza archive crawlers and it refreshes every 5 minutes.
@gaza_verified_campaigns posts twice a day a list of accounts that made <$200 in the past 7 days. You can follow this account to get an idea of where to focus the donation efforts.
If you’re a volunteer who also hosts a copy of the Gaza Archive, and you also want to run your copies of the bots, you can add them to your instance by enabling the new environment variables.
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse and contribute to their fundraisers if you can. (And please share this so others can do the same.)
Remember that you can see a list of our members and their fundraisers in one place (ordered by those who have raised the least in the past week) at:
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
For those who don't know, the people of Gaza now live in only 36% of the area of the Gaza Strip "within the yellow line", meaning 62,000 people per square kilometer!!
@joynewacc and I had the honour of speaking to @Dalla1982 today and would like to welcome her and her family to Gaza Verified.
She’s an architect who, due to the war, has lost her job and must now support her family through donations until some semblance of normal life returns to Gaza.
Please give her a follow and help if you can.
(She doesn’t have her fundraiser on her profile yet but I’ve asked her to add it. Once she does, you will be able to see her on our donate page along with the other families: gaza-verified.org/donate/)
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
Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.
Quote by MEE: “Nov 16, 2025 Families in Gaza are wading through flooded camps in soaking clothes after winter storms tore apart their flimsy tents, forcing them to seek safer shelter. Torrential rain has ruined mattresses, blankets, and personal belongings, while civil defence teams warn that many of the makeshift tents are no longer habitable. Aid agencies say the humanitarian response is overwhelmed, leaving tens of thousands of displaced families to survive with inadequate shelter and limited resources.“
Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can. (And please share this so others might do the same.)
And remember that you can see the fundraisers of all our members in a single list (ordered by those who have received the fewest donations in the last seven days) at:
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
"Israel is breaching international law by continuing to impose restrictions on aid flows into Gaza, where the population remains critically short of food and life-saving goods as winter sets in, a senior official at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said.
In an interview during a recent visit to Brussels, Natalie Boucly, an Unrwa deputy commissioner general, said the whole world – including the EU and US – needed to increase the pressure on Israel’s government to ensure the unrestricted flow of aid into Gaza.
Unrwa has enough food, tents and other essentials to fill the equivalent of up to 6,000 trucks, Boucly said.
“As winter approaches and famine continues to grip the population, it is critical that all this aid is allowed into Gaza without delay,” she said. “Our supplies would be able to provide food … for the entire population for about three months. And that is sitting outside [in Jordan and Egypt], not able to come in. And that is the case for the other UN agencies because the restrictions and the constrai
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"Israel is breaching international law by continuing to impose restrictions on aid flows into Gaza, where the population remains critically short of food and life-saving goods as winter sets in, a senior official at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said.
In an interview during a recent visit to Brussels, Natalie Boucly, an Unrwa deputy commissioner general, said the whole world – including the EU and US – needed to increase the pressure on Israel’s government to ensure the unrestricted flow of aid into Gaza.
Unrwa has enough food, tents and other essentials to fill the equivalent of up to 6,000 trucks, Boucly said.
“As winter approaches and famine continues to grip the population, it is critical that all this aid is allowed into Gaza without delay,” she said. “Our supplies would be able to provide food … for the entire population for about three months. And that is sitting outside [in Jordan and Egypt], not able to come in. And that is the case for the other UN agencies because the restrictions and the constraints are still there.”
She estimated that only about half, “if that”, of the 500-600 daily truckloads needed were getting into the devastated territory."
Today is @rouh’s birthday 💝 and as we’ve all seen, the situation in Gaza has gotten exponentially worse.
Mai deserves our support every day, but let’s bring some extra light to her day by celebrating Mai’s birthday in any way you can, whether it’s through contributing to her campaign, boosting her posts or sending her warm birthday wishes 💗
Today is @rouh’s birthday 💝 and as we’ve all seen, the situation in Gaza has gotten exponentially worse.
Mai deserves our support every day, but let’s bring some extra light to her day by celebrating Mai’s birthday in any way you can, whether it’s through contributing to her campaign, boosting her posts or sending her warm birthday wishes 💗
I had the pleasure of speaking with Mai (@rouh) recently. On our video call she told me all about her initiative, Gaza Camp Kids.
In addition to providing for her own family of 10 and Gaza Camp Kids, Mai has an endoscopy surgery on Nov 5, and she’ll need extra support. To celebrate her birthday on Nov 15, let’s come together and support Mai, her family and Gaza Camp Kids. 💕
They are also already showing on our donations page (and, as you can see, their fundraisers have had very little in donations over the past week, so hopefully the fediverse can step up and start to help them):
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
@yosefAziz Thank you for taking the time to speak with us, Yosef. It was lovely meeting you too.
And I see that you’re already included on our donations page so hopefully that will mean that you will start getting more donations from the lovely folks on the fediverse:
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
Today’s Gaza Verified verification calls are proceeding without any technical difficulties for once (I’ve jinxed it now, haven’t I?) so I’ve found myself with a nice ten-minute break between calls and what better use of the time than to toot about it? :P
@joynewacc and I have already verified two new members and will hopefully be verifying two more before the hour is done. (I say Joy and I… she’s the one doing all the work, really. I’m just there waving and smiling.) :)
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan
Folks, if you want to donate to our Gaza Verified families but don’t know who to donate to or are overwhelmed, here’s is a list of all the families, sorted by those who have raised the least in the last seven days:
(The list is based on @fabio’s API¹. It’s also Fabio’s birthday today so wish him a happy birthday, why don’t you and thank him for his excellent work?) :)
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
G morning🤎 I was talking to my friends @aral @fabio @riverbirchtree To give me an advice to register my sis @Nourfuturedr in medical uni. She recently graduated from high school with an excellent GPA. The matter’s hard for me; I cover the expensive rent for my family, my uni fees, the fees for my brother who is studying engineering, &costs of food &drinks. I decided to launch Nour's w all my strength to secure $2,500 to register #gaza chuffed.org/project/150250-ple…
Brazilians have long supported Palestine, but the country's economic and military ties with Israel continue to deepen. As Israel's links to Brazil's domestic inequality, agribusiness, and state violence become clearer, Palestinian solidarity grows.
Brazilians have long supported Palestine, but the country’s economic and military ties with Israel continue to deepen. As Israel’s links to Brazil’s domestic inequality, agribusiness, and state violence become clearer, Palestinian solidarity grows.
If you’re overwhelmed by the number of people who need help in Gaza and don’t know who to donate to, this list of Gaza Verified members, ordered by those who’ve received the least help in the last week (rolling) might help:
All our families need help to afford basic necessities and, your help is even more crucial today as the rains and winter hit and many are still forced to endure Israel’s ongoing genocide in tents.
Please donate if you can and share this so others might do the same.
New York Times | The punishing rain and chilling winds that have swept through #Gaza since Friday are a bitter reminder that despite a cease-fire that went into effect last month, life remains far from normal for the enclave’s two million people.
But aid agencies say #Israel has not let in enough shelter and heating supplies to allow the people living in tents to prepare.
"Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, and full of love."
She founded Crips for eSims for Gaza, which raised millions for phone connectivity for Palestinians in Gaza.
I know i haven't been posting lately. I'm just very busy, and i quite honestly don't have time. I hope some people are understanding of my situation. I wanted to just post about the #winter crisis in #gaza . the photos are of the streets in gaza. Spread the awareness about the crisis and try to help with whatever amount you can donate to gazans to help them through this crisis. #fediverse @aral
In case you were wondering whether you should cancel your Paramount+ subscription…
“Ellison’s [spawn of the Oracle billionaire] goal is to turn Paramount into a MAGA-friendly environment, with content in the TV and movie divisions expected to be more ‘America-centric’ and geared toward ‘the middle of the country.’”
It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.
Your daily reminder that you can see a rolling list of all the fundraisers of Gaza Verified members who need your help in one place, ranked by fewest donations received:
SCANDALEUX.🤬😡 edit: ils sont sortis, et leur situation est en train d'être examinée
160 palestiniens qui ont volontairement fui Gaza pour se réfugier en Afrique du sud, coincés dans l'avion. Ils n'ont pas l'autorisation de débarquer. On attend autre chose qu'un renvoi, de la part de l'Afrique du sud...il semble qu' Israël envoie les volontaires au départ dans les pays sans visa obligatoire pour l'entrée. Des MONSTRES ces sionistes.
> South Africa has barred a group of Palestinians arriving from Ramon Airport from disembarking after uncovering that Israel used fake offices to facilitate the displacement of Gaza residents through visa-free countries. Authorities are currently seeking a solution and are considering sending the plane back to Ramon....
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
Using simple, improvised tools, displaced Palestinians try to drain rainwater that has flooded their worn-out tents as the first winter storm hits the Gaza Strip.
"Twenty-eight Israeli officials appeared in front of a panel of 10 UN experts on torture in Geneva. The experts asked the Israeli team: “Does Israel have a law against torture?” The answer from the Israeli delegation was no. “Does Israel apply the agreements it has signed against torture in Gaza and the West Bank?” the question continued, to which the answer was also no." #Torture #Israel WarCrimes #Gaza #BDS
keep telling anybody who will hear me: #nyc is blessed with the largest concentration of antizionist Jewish communities in the world.
Mandami won the Jewish vote thanks to Joe Biden’s mendacity. the way he treated students protesting #Gaza #genocide unified them against the leadership of the Democratic Party.
i still remember when zionism was considered extremist. even back in the 1990s it was vulgar in nyc to call someone a zionist.
Report: "Jewish groups condemn ADL's 'Mamdani Monitor' as blatant Islamophobia"
A coalition of Jewish groups have criticised the Anti-Defamation League & vowed to work with Mamdani:
"NYC Jewish communities repudiate the ADL's blatant Islamophobia: …
Life in #gaza is never easy for kidney patients. I wrote these words to share a glimpse of their daily endurance, and of my father, who carries fatigue in his body, courage in his heart, and hope in every breath.
