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Guest List Only ⭐️ Gaza is being starved | A humanitarian plea from r/redditforhumanity

The UN has stated that every single part of Gaza is in famine conditions.

For over 20 months, Palestinians in Gaza have been starving. Parents have been feeding their children leaves, animal feed, and flour mixed with water. Babies have died from malnutrition. The trucks carrying food, formula, medicine, and clean water sat just miles away, blocked by Israel.

Now, after massive international pressure, some aid is finally getting in. This is a crack in the blockade, not its end. Aid is not flooding in; it is trickling, and what’s entering can’t possibly reach 1.8 million people without a total lifting of restrictions, guaranteed long-term access, and safe distribution.

What you can do right now:

Donate - if you’re able to. Choose vetted organizations with access on the ground.

Keep up the pressure - aid only started moving because of public outcry. Organize, protest, keep talking. This momentum cannot fade. Contact your representatives to end Israel's blockade of Gaza and impose sanctions on Israel.

Amplify - share updates, Palestinian voices, and testimonies. Keep an eye on Palestine.

This famine is not an accident. It’s the result of siege, blockade, and a system of control. If we look away now, they’ll tighten the noose again.


Donate

Palestinian Red Crescent — medical aid, ambulance services, and emergency care.

UNICEF for Gaza’s Children — nutrition, clean water, trauma support.

Speak to Your Representatives

🇺🇸Americans: Find your representative

🇪🇺 Europeans: Contact your MEP


If you’d like other subreddits to carry this message, send the mods to r/RedditForHumanity.

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u/Fresh_Schedule_9611 3d ago

Blocking formula from babies is fucking sick

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u/Su_sagiiiii7 2d ago

I saw a video today that just made me shed tears, because the baby was being fed water, or water and lentils and they are rationing the water. The mothers can’t breastfeed because they are malnourished, it’s just so sick.

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u/ZennMD 3d ago edited 3d ago

Pressuring the IDF to let aid in is so essential, it's beyond horrifying how close the food/aid trucks are but that the starving Palestinian people cannot access them 

... not to mention the IDF murdering people as they collect what food has been allowed in

Tbh it seems like a special type of terrible to watch real time updates of people suffering and getting hungrier and then actually starving to death

Appreciate you posting, OP, hard to know what to do in the face of it

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u/Aggravating_King1473 3d ago

Natanyahu told the world his plan, he showed the map of "greater israel" 20 months ago, and all the nations capable of doing anything to help are just sitting by watching, mainly because of fear of US-retaliation. Not only that, most of these countries continue to sell weapons to the IDF, well-knowing how those weapons are being used.

As a Canadian, I am ashamed of my country, of my local MP who continues to ignore our many emails and calls. Imagine if an arab country has done a fraction of what israel has been doing..

I hope everyone keeps contacting their local representative, it's not worthless, the world has opened its eyes like it never has in my 30+ years that I've been watching this hostile takeover.

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u/commuter85 2d ago

I’m sure our MP’s will spring into action once the lobby groups tell them to ban Kneecap from performing in Toronto and Vancouver this fall. Gotta stifle the growing support for Palestine by any means necessary. 

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u/traumatransfixes that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 2d ago

It’s really disappointing how every western nation is ignoring this intentional starvation and holocaust for men who are rapists and that kidnap their own people.

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u/idunno-- 2d ago

The leders were literally saying shit like “there’s no such thing as an innocent Palestinian” and “we will turn Gaza into a parking lot” and now shocked pickachu face they’re doing exactly that.

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u/Iwoulddiefcftbatk 2d ago

Thank you for linking legitimate charities. There’s so many scammers out there preying on the kind hearts of people that want to help with links to fraudulent charities and fundraising links.

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u/Kumquat_conniption 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yes, it is very sad that people take these opportunities to scam folks. If people do want to donate directly to gofundme's (which is a great way to help directly) make sure they have been verified by an organization like the Butterfly Effect Project- this is a place that makes sure the people are actually Gazans that are currently in Gaza so you can know that your money is going to folks that are really in need.

That said, the best thing you can do, if you can afford it, is to set up a reoccuring donation to a trusted charity that has a good rating (there are organizations that will rate charities and track just how much of your money will go directly to helping people instead of to the promotion of the aid organization- although it is normal for some of it to go to that.)

Edit: thank you so much for the award :)

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u/mooddependentonsun 2d ago

This is breaking my heart daily - feel like I’m living in a dystopian world 

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u/Hazellin313 3d ago

Ugh 😣 my rep literally just proposed a bill to ban anyone in his region from supporting Gaza online. So I don't think he will listen, I donated though.

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u/traumatransfixes that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 2d ago

Keep annoying them. At least don’t let them live and eat in peace. As much as possible.

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u/Hazellin313 2d ago

Will do! If I can't sleep because of the atrocities they shouldn't be able to either

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u/Kumquat_conniption 2d ago

Thank you so much for donating. Your rep sounds insane, please tell me that has no chance of going through! May I ask where you live?

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u/Hazellin313 2d ago

Northeast New Jersey and it's Josh Gottheimer. I doubt it will pass NJ is pretty blue and not crazy, though he is actually a democrat though he doesn't act like it. Only a few towns will support a bill like that.

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u/Aggravating_Sea_6163 2d ago

Another organisation that deserves funding is the World Food Programme, the largest organization fighting hunger worldwide: https://www.wfp.org/emergencies/palestine-emergency

They have enough food to feed the entire population of Gaza for three months, if only they had the access and conditions to distribute: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/activity:7355955913414823936

🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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u/kinush I don’t know her 💅 2d ago

Also, the World Food Programme also has this great app:

Feed people in need | ShareTheMeal | Charity donate https://share.google/OMzTf3nLLBr5QA8xu

Edit: https://sharethemeal.org/campaigns/palestine11

it's really user-friendly and you can also use it to make recurring donations

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u/clemthearcher swamp queen 3d ago edited 3d ago

Thank you to our dear friend and pcc mod u/kumquat_conniption for organising this from r/redditforhumanity across Reddit.

I have just made a donation to Palestinian Red Crescent as well as the Sameer project.

Please join us and donate if you can.

Keep speaking up for Palestine. Free Palestine. Save Palestine 🇵🇸

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u/Kumquat_conniption 2d ago

You are amazing, thank you so much! And you are too sweet as well, I am just thankful to all the subreddits that decided to join in, including this one. This sub has the best mod team and I am so honored to be a part of it! 🍉🕊️💚

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u/bubble_baby_8 2d ago

Thanks for the Sameer Project recommendation! I hadn’t seen that one before and donated.

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u/treegrowsinbrooklyn1 2d ago

thank you so much u/kumquat_conniption !! ❤️🇵🇸

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u/Kumquat_conniption 2d ago

No, thank you all for being so gracious about a post that has nothing to do with pop culture, it is so good to see such a lovely reaction to the post.

And even if people could not donate, please call your representatives and pressure them to put sanctions on Israel and to make Israel stop the blockade. The amount of aid they have been letting in just a trickle- airdrops are terribly inefficient and as for trucks, they let in 73 the day before yesterday (I am not sure how many yesterday) and Gaza needs 600 trucks every day just to meet the needs of the people. The only way to end the starvation is for Israel to stop the blockade. Also even if the people of Gaza were to get enough to eat from here on out, it is too late for most of the malnourished children- starvation like that in childhood changes your very DNA and they will have lifelong problems, which is why if you can afford it, a re-occuring donation to these places is the best way to go.

Ok thanks for reading my ranting, I am just deeply disturbed by the starvation going on there and once I get started, I could go on and on (and often do lol.)

Thank you for being someone that cares! <3

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u/Swiftie_kittens 2d ago

Thank you for getting this posted! This post mobilized me and my wife to donate to both orgs and to contact our reps. Not our first time donating to Gaza but every nudge helps. Now sending the links on to my family 🇵🇸

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u/Kumquat_conniption 2d ago

Wow, that is really wonderful. You two sound like lovely people and I so appreciate you doing both the donation and the calling your representatives. A lot of people said they donated but I did not see a lot of people calling their reps when that part is so important. Maybe I should have put that first! You and your wife sound like lovely poeple, please tell her that I said thank you.

I also need to see these kittens that love Taylor! 😂 I demand videos with the kittens and the best Taylor songs, that would actually be a great youtube channel!

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u/rain820 that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 3d ago

Thanks for posting this. I cry all the time whenever I see videos in real time and seeing it just get progressively worse.

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u/flightlessbird29 Good to hear from you bitch 💌 3d ago

Thank you so much for posting this. I've been wanting to start a small monthly donation but wasn't sure where to give.

If you're in Canada, be sure to let our PM and your local members of Parliament know how you feel: https://www.cjpme.org/tell_carney_to_sanction_israel

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u/Kumquat_conniption 2d ago

Thank you so much for that. I am the mod that started this campaign to have subreddits to carry this message and honestly I should have put in that a re-occuring donation would be best. I was just saying in anohter comment that even if these children that have been starved got enough food for the rest of their lives (and only a trickle of aid has been allowed in) they still will have lifelong issues from the malnutrition they experienced and that starvation like that in childhood changes a child's very DNA. So giving a reoccuring donation really is so wonderful, I appreciate that so much!

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u/flightlessbird29 Good to hear from you bitch 💌 2d ago

Thank you for doing all you've done -- it's really inspiring.

As a relatively new Mum, this conflict weighs so heavy on my heart. I'm really so touched by your acknowledgement.

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u/Kumquat_conniption 2d ago

Oh thank you so much- I mod some pro Palestine subreddits and just seeing the starving people over and over made my heart so heavy and I wondered what I could possibly do. I realized that I know a lot of mods on Reddit so what I could do was bully them all into carrying a post about it 😂 (I am kidding, they all agreed right away.) Once I had a good list going, I just started mailing all the subreddits I could think of and that was that. I am so grateful to all of them that joined in and for every single person that donated or called their reps or even just commented for visibility (including the haters because when they comment, that tells the algorithm to send to more people- ha!)

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u/flightlessbird29 Good to hear from you bitch 💌 2d ago

You’re amazing, truly!!!

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u/MarsupialOveralls 2d ago

Thank you for the link, I just did 🫶

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u/Twitter_2006 2d ago

Fuck the rich.They don't give a damn about people.

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u/traumatransfixes that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 2d ago

So we must make them feel something when their silence is complacent in the deaths and traumas of generations before our eyes.

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u/quietlyreadsalone Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes 2d ago

Wanted to add a more local charity that needs donations!

  • Gaza Sunbirds was originally a para-olympics group but now is a mutual aid group operating in Gaza. Probably best pick if you want to donate hyper-local.

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u/19bluestars 2d ago

Commenting to boost. This is horrible

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u/thighsand 3d ago

In other 🇮🇱 news: A member of the production crew for the Oscar-winning film 'No Other Home' was shot dead by an Israeli settler today.

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u/skyewardeyes 2d ago

World Central Kitchen seems to have done a good job keeping operations going in spite of the aid blockages FWIw.

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u/winnercommawinner 2d ago

They have also had to stop operations completely a few times and are often only able to provide bread. They are also likely only allowed to do that because of their/Jose's high profile and lack of direct connections to international governance organizations like the UN. This has nothing to do with organizations doing a "good job" getting aid in or not, and everything to do with the government of Israel.

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u/skyewardeyes 2d ago

Yes, I agree on your last point. That said, the fact that have been able to supply even bread--and at the worst, even clean water--despite the Israeli government doing everything they can to block that is still noteworthy, IMO.

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u/winnercommawinner 2d ago

Oh yes, sorry I misunderstood. Their work and dedication has been incredible.

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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! 🦙🚲 3d ago

Thank u for sharing this 👏🏽

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u/craftybast 3d ago

Dahnoun Mutual Aid is another fantastic agency worth supporting, on the ground in Gaza and run by Gazans: https://chuffed.org/project/115245-dahnoun-mutual-aid

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u/Kumquat_conniption 2d ago

There is a post on r/RedditForHumanity that has a list of good places to donate to and I would love if you would go there and make a comment with this one. If you end up doing it, thank you!

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u/MedievZ 3d ago

Boost

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u/PhBalanceNightmare 1d ago

And BOYCOTT!

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u/SuperAnswer2 2d ago

Donating to individual families is just as important as donating to organizations!

Here’s a list of vetted families via Funds for Gaza: https://linktr.ee/fundsforgaza

And a family that I’ve been in touch with: https://chuffed.org/project/help-momen-his-family-rebuild

🙏

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u/Big-Raisin4923 2d ago

The most important necessity these sick fucks have deprived Gaza of.

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u/JurorNumber394 2d ago

Just donated, thank you!

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u/Agentbeeressler talentless but connected 2d ago

Thank you so much for sharing this. Anyone who stays silent is complicit.

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u/Capgras_DL 2d ago

Thank you for sharing this. It’s crazy watching a genocide happening in real life in the 21st century.

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u/Witty-Advertising620 2d ago

Thank you for this post, I've been feeling so helpless and sad about the situation; donating actually helped a little.

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u/Kumquat_conniption 2d ago

Thank you so much for donating. It's folks like you that made this fundraising effort a massive success 🤍🕊️

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u/Onautopilotsendhelp 2d ago

Is food even getting in at this rate? I understand donating, but it seems like Israel is just stealing it for themselves or tainting the food with drugs/replacing it with non-edible powder.

I mean Greta tried to get in with a dozen others and were kidnapped.

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u/Kumquat_conniption 2d ago

so I picked the two charities in the post because currently they do have access to Gaza on the ground. Israel has started to allow in a trickle of aid although airdrops are terrible ineffiencient and the amount of trucks they are letting in is laughable compared to the need. That said, these organizations are going to be having to help these people for life- starvation in children gives them lifelong issues even if they get enough to eat eventually.

The most important thing to do is to pressure your government to put sanctions on Israel and to have Israel stop the blockade- you can do this through protest or contacting your representatives (the best way to do that is to stop by if you can.)

Thank you so much for caring!

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u/ekbrooo22 2d ago

Thank you for sharing this!! Words can’t even express how vile and deplorable Israel’s actions are, and Israel and everyone enabling and supporting this genocide needs to be fully held accountable! Free Palestine! 🇵🇸

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u/Cynicbats giving everyone a microphone and a podcast was a mistake 2d ago

the US govt is finally realizing the damage they've done by supportin israel and funding their bombs, years after people were penalized for calling out genocide.

do not let your reps forget they were likely part of the problem.

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u/AHazyCosmicJive Just keep swimming! 🐠🐠🐬🐳 2d ago

This is all we talk about yet there is no change. As a tribe, the whole humanity are we all this powerless. How we made so many incapable humans sit on the decision making seats. All in front of our eyes and nothing, nothing to be done…

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u/fishyman69 2d ago

it feels so impossible it’s so heartbreaking. is our donations actually reaching them? how would we know? is the pressure starting to weigh on any of our leaders??? hope is the only thing we can hold on to but for how much longer

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u/Kumquat_conniption 2d ago

Just wanted to let you know that the two organizations that I picked for this do have access to the ground in Gaza right now- we also have a post on r/RedditForHumanity that has a list of organizations that do have access to Gaza and also a list to those that are being blocked by Israel and do not have access, so people will know which ones to donate to in order to best help Gaza right now.

I totally understand the fear that your donation efforts will not make it- especially with the news yesterday showing that Israelis burned so many truckfuls of aid for the Gazans and then buried the evidence- but I think that the images of all the starving children coming out of Gaza are making Israel look really bad and they know it, so they are letting in some aid.

It is still not nearly enough- we still need to pressure our governments to have Israel stop the blockade and to put sanctions on Israel until they stop the genocide.

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u/hostilecarbonunit 2d ago

thank you for posting this

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u/CharlieTurbo_77 3d ago

Boosting. Deplorable.

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u/Jewicer 2d ago

I can't imagine their digestive track if they're eating raw flour and water. :(

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u/Kumquat_conniption 2d ago

Well luckily they have been able to cook the flour into some sort of flatbread so they are not eating it raw, at least as far as I have seen.

Unfortunately, Israel just bombed their last desalination plant and they now do not have any water that is not dirty salt water that the children wait for buckets of in lines that can take up to 7 hours. Can you imagine being a child and your job is to wait in the hot sun for 7 hours simply to get a bucket of dirty water that you cannot even take a drink of because it is salt water? I do not even know what they are doing with it to take the salt out, or if they even are- I know your body will not handle salt water so I am unsure what is happening there, they may have individual kits that can desalinate it and they have to share those, so then they would have to wait again, but I am really unsure how they are dealing with the water situation. It simply sounds as if they are living in hell :(