Gaza Deserves Life
United States
This is what my friend Ahmed writes to me:
Hello dear, I miss you. I am here in Khan Yunis. The occupation army claims our families are safe. We face always the intense heat and always thirst and always we are hungry. The crossings still are closed. A difficult situation my dear, everything that is happening around us. A human life is devalued and the value of bread ‘skyrockets’ and a drop of water is beyond priceless.
He writes:
Hello dear, the explosions continue all the time. We hear the bombs fall in Rafah. Sometimes nearer. Sometimes they target our tents. Sometimes with missiles guided by helicopters and sometimes by drones. And sometimes drones buzz past without harm. Yet displaced mothers fear most the thirst. I asked a French organization to fund a water distribution project. They declined. I would like to ask you if there is anyone who can fund a similar project from your side?
He writes:
Hello dear, perhaps i could obtain a tanker truck, fill drinking water from clean stations, and tour the camps and fill water for the displaced. Perhaps i could distribute sanitary materials and soaps, or establish a place to prepare whatever food is available and build networks to distribute it. The need of the diplaced is so great, my dear, and it is now.
This is what he asked me to share with you:
Dear friends, free people of this world, greetings from the people of Gaza, and thank you. We suffer today from the most heinous inhuman crimes. Brutality weighs on our every moment of life. We are always losing in new ways. We lose so many friends and loved ones, we lose entire cities and their neighborhoods, we lose streets, homes, farms. We lose history. We lose memories. There is so little that cannot be taken. Surely you have heard? We live in many kinds of destitution and dehumanization. They take even our hope. The crossings have been closed since March 2nd 2024. Nothing has entered Gaza, and we can hardly find a loaf of bread. Since March 2nd 2024, we have eaten only canned food and we struggle to obtain even water. Most of all we struggle to disperse what we do have to those who do not. We need your help. There are displaced who could drink water tonight that do not because we cannot move it to them. The displaced need water and food and tents. Please accept our abundant love and respect. Please help as you can.
My Dears, Ahmed is someone also dear to me. After my dear friend Rachel Corrie was killed by the Israeli military in the gruesome and public manner of which you all by now know the details, I attempted to help my community process our grief by working to build the sister city project between Olympia, Washington and Rafah, Gaza. I met Ahmed then. He remains one of the kindest people I have ever known. He was called Che in the refugee camp where he lived until its obliteration. We’ve stayed in touch all these years and it breaks my heart to witness the ongoning destruction of his life and the lives of his community– by the occupation, by the bombardments, and by this 18 month long genocide that lowers itself to use water and food as weapons against the innocent.
Ahmed has asked me to raise funds so he can meet the needs of the tens of thousands of displaced people around him.
This project is a community-based solution to an immediate crisis that dares us to feel hope. Please give as you can, and please share as widely as you dare, thank you for reading this far.
Your contribution will gift a community the power to turn their thoughts from surviving tonight to planning for tomorrow.
With love,
Rochelle
With abundant love and respect,
Ahmed
Ahmed continues to survive. Huge gratitude to each of you for your generous donations that have helped provide water and hope. His most recent effort was trying to purchase a large quantity of flour and rent a kitchen to help feed the children but the flour has proven too hard to get. He is waiting hoping that our efforts to demand an end to the starvation will result in more aid. Gaza Deserves Life will continue looking for ways to ease the suffering. Please keep calling your congresspeople, organizing BDS campaigns and raising awareness in all the ways you can. Here is my most recent text from him:
“Many times I wish for death. On Saturday the day before yesterday I was very frustrated, I don’t have any flour, I searched to buy flour but I didn’t find any. Some trucks loaded with flour enter, and pirates steal them completely. Children and the elderly go hungry. Yesterday a large number of people died due to the hunger that spread among the people. Tonight was a terrible night and a large number of missiles were targeted. Among the targets was a tent very close to me. It was targeted by a suicide drone. We no longer fear anything, my dear. I hope to live and love life very much and the inner peace and psychological stability that I have always told you about, but we have no choice here but to live our days as they are with their bitterness and bitterness, hoping that this reality will change, which is like a nightmare that refuses to end.
Yesterday the occupation ordered a large area in Deir al-Balah to evacuate, and this time is different from all the other times, as the evacuation order reached the Deir al-Balah beach. There is fear that the occupation will divide the strip into new axes. Now all those who live in the Gaza Strip live in an area of only 20% of the strip’s area. What should we think about, how to provide firewood, flour, or what comes after the flour, or should we think and follow the negotiations that we hear about progress every day in the morning and in the evening the army asks to evacuate new areas. Do we think with our feelings? With our minds? We are like chess pieces, on an isolated table played by a few old people, and we are unable to change our reality, as we do not have a crossing or a solution, nor do we have time or even food. We are more miserable than Christ, we who were crucified without prophecy.”
Hey all, we are so grateful for your generosity! With perserverence we have successfully transfered your funds to Ahmed and the Gaza Deserves Life initiative completed a second project, laying down a water line to bring water closer to the camp. From Ahmed:
Hello dear, how are you? This video was edited after the water arrived yesterday, as everyone filled the water easily, and everyone offers the highest forms of love, appreciation and respect to you and to everyone who contributed to supporting and standing by the displaced people in the camp.
These times are so unbearable, know that as we continue to fight for a Free Palestine your donations bring dignity to those whose mere survival against all odds is powerful resistance in the face of 600 days of U.S. funded genocide. Please share this effort so Gaza Deserves Life can continue. Thank you.
Dear Friends,
Good evening, we have just begun the work of distributing water, and we have been well received by the poor and the children, and I am very happy for this reason tonight. Thank you my friend. Thank you. children laugh tonight who would otherwise cry. hundreds upon hundreds have water tonight who otherwise would not.
With abundant love and respect,
Ahmed
Dear friends, Dear loved ones, Dear dreamers of a kind world,
Please share our successes as widely as can. You have saved lives tonight.
Thank you.
Please ask of every good human you know who has money to spare to do the same.
With abundant love and respect,
Ahmed, Rochelle, Chance
Robyn Park
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United States
This is what my friend Ahmed writes to me:
Hello dear, I miss you. I am here in Khan Yunis. The occupation army claims our families are safe. We face always the intense heat and always thirst and always we are hungry. The crossings still are closed. A difficult situation my dear, everything that is happening around us. A human life is devalued and the value of bread ‘skyrockets’ and a drop of water is beyond priceless.
He writes:
Hello dear, the explosions continue all the time. We hear the bombs fall in Rafah. Sometimes nearer. Sometimes they target our tents. Sometimes with missiles guided by helicopters and sometimes by drones. And sometimes drones buzz past without harm. Yet displaced mothers fear most the thirst. I asked a French organization to fund a water distribution project. They declined. I would like to ask you if there is anyone who can fund a similar project from your side?
He writes:
Hello dear, perhaps i could obtain a tanker truck, fill drinking water from clean stations, and tour the camps and fill water for the displaced. Perhaps i could distribute sanitary materials and soaps, or establish a place to prepare whatever food is available and build networks to distribute it. The need of the diplaced is so great, my dear, and it is now.
This is what he asked me to share with you:
Dear friends, free people of this world, greetings from the people of Gaza, and thank you. We suffer today from the most heinous inhuman crimes. Brutality weighs on our every moment of life. We are always losing in new ways. We lose so many friends and loved ones, we lose entire cities and their neighborhoods, we lose streets, homes, farms. We lose history. We lose memories. There is so little that cannot be taken. Surely you have heard? We live in many kinds of destitution and dehumanization. They take even our hope. The crossings have been closed since March 2nd 2024. Nothing has entered Gaza, and we can hardly find a loaf of bread. Since March 2nd 2024, we have eaten only canned food and we struggle to obtain even water. Most of all we struggle to disperse what we do have to those who do not. We need your help. There are displaced who could drink water tonight that do not because we cannot move it to them. The displaced need water and food and tents. Please accept our abundant love and respect. Please help as you can.
My Dears, Ahmed is someone also dear to me. After my dear friend Rachel Corrie was killed by the Israeli military in the gruesome and public manner of which you all by now know the details, I attempted to help my community process our grief by working to build the sister city project between Olympia, Washington and Rafah, Gaza. I met Ahmed then. He remains one of the kindest people I have ever known. He was called Che in the refugee camp where he lived until its obliteration. We’ve stayed in touch all these years and it breaks my heart to witness the ongoning destruction of his life and the lives of his community– by the occupation, by the bombardments, and by this 18 month long genocide that lowers itself to use water and food as weapons against the innocent.
Ahmed has asked me to raise funds so he can meet the needs of the tens of thousands of displaced people around him.
This project is a community-based solution to an immediate crisis that dares us to feel hope. Please give as you can, and please share as widely as you dare, thank you for reading this far.
Your contribution will gift a community the power to turn their thoughts from surviving tonight to planning for tomorrow.
With love,
Rochelle
With abundant love and respect,
Ahmed
Ahmed continues to survive. Huge gratitude to each of you for your generous donations that have helped provide water and hope. His most recent effort was trying to purchase a large quantity of flour and rent a kitchen to help feed the children but the flour has proven too hard to get. He is waiting hoping that our efforts to demand an end to the starvation will result in more aid. Gaza Deserves Life will continue looking for ways to ease the suffering. Please keep calling your congresspeople, organizing BDS campaigns and raising awareness in all the ways you can. Here is my most recent text from him:
“Many times I wish for death. On Saturday the day before yesterday I was very frustrated, I don’t have any flour, I searched to buy flour but I didn’t find any. Some trucks loaded with flour enter, and pirates steal them completely. Children and the elderly go hungry. Yesterday a large number of people died due to the hunger that spread among the people. Tonight was a terrible night and a large number of missiles were targeted. Among the targets was a tent very close to me. It was targeted by a suicide drone. We no longer fear anything, my dear. I hope to live and love life very much and the inner peace and psychological stability that I have always told you about, but we have no choice here but to live our days as they are with their bitterness and bitterness, hoping that this reality will change, which is like a nightmare that refuses to end.
Yesterday the occupation ordered a large area in Deir al-Balah to evacuate, and this time is different from all the other times, as the evacuation order reached the Deir al-Balah beach. There is fear that the occupation will divide the strip into new axes. Now all those who live in the Gaza Strip live in an area of only 20% of the strip’s area. What should we think about, how to provide firewood, flour, or what comes after the flour, or should we think and follow the negotiations that we hear about progress every day in the morning and in the evening the army asks to evacuate new areas. Do we think with our feelings? With our minds? We are like chess pieces, on an isolated table played by a few old people, and we are unable to change our reality, as we do not have a crossing or a solution, nor do we have time or even food. We are more miserable than Christ, we who were crucified without prophecy.”
Hey all, we are so grateful for your generosity! With perserverence we have successfully transfered your funds to Ahmed and the Gaza Deserves Life initiative completed a second project, laying down a water line to bring water closer to the camp. From Ahmed:
Hello dear, how are you? This video was edited after the water arrived yesterday, as everyone filled the water easily, and everyone offers the highest forms of love, appreciation and respect to you and to everyone who contributed to supporting and standing by the displaced people in the camp.
These times are so unbearable, know that as we continue to fight for a Free Palestine your donations bring dignity to those whose mere survival against all odds is powerful resistance in the face of 600 days of U.S. funded genocide. Please share this effort so Gaza Deserves Life can continue. Thank you.
Dear Friends,
Good evening, we have just begun the work of distributing water, and we have been well received by the poor and the children, and I am very happy for this reason tonight. Thank you my friend. Thank you. children laugh tonight who would otherwise cry. hundreds upon hundreds have water tonight who otherwise would not.
With abundant love and respect,
Ahmed
Dear friends, Dear loved ones, Dear dreamers of a kind world,
Please share our successes as widely as can. You have saved lives tonight.
Thank you.
Please ask of every good human you know who has money to spare to do the same.
With abundant love and respect,
Ahmed, Rochelle, Chance
Robyn Park
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