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Winter is coming. Toddlers will freeze to death. Rain will flood tents and soak/destroy all personal belongings.
Palestinians need to buy warm clothing, ideally ahead of time. They need to replace tents. At the prices dictated by genocide-profiteers.
Over the coming months, Palestinians will need our support the most. Don't grow tired of supporting, don't grow indifferent to suffering, don't give in to feelings of powerlessness. If you need a break, that's okay, but do come back from your break.
If you don't have money to donate, you can send them words of emotional support. Listen to their stories and sorrows. It matters, more than you know.
Please check out #GazaVerified and donate to help victims of genocide:
https://gaza-verified.org/donate/
You can't expect genocide victims to not intrude into your discussions to ask for help and simultaneously *not* donate to them. Not if you don't want to be complicit in genocide by actively ignoring it.
@aral and @fabio built https://gaza-verified.org/donate/ so that you won't get spammed every day by dozens of messages from Palestinians who feel they have no other choice. This can work only if we donate enough though, so that they don't feel compelled to knock on every door.
Palestinians don't send you unsolicited messages because they want to annoy you or because they have nothing better to do. They feel *ashamed* for having to ask for help and *they too* would prefer not having to knock on every door they can find. They do this only because they aren't supported enough, and of course because our governments are complicit in genocide to begin with.
Don't forget Palestine.
The rain season in Palestine has begun. 😔 This is how the next handful of months will look like in Gaza almost every day. It's going to be a very hard time.
Tents are flooding, people have to sleep in wet clothing on wet beds. Any personal belonging that isn't waterproof gets destroyed. The tents simply can't keep the water out, especially if they're torn and have holes.
And every week the weather will be colder until people are freezing to death. 💔 Like last winter and the winters before.
Please keep donating to help Palestinians repair their tents and buy what they need.
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