People In Gaza Have Been Saying This Would Happen Since The Very Start, As Soon As The Occupation Started

People in Gaza have been saying this would happen since the very start, as soon as the occupation started corralling everyone into the southern part of the strip they said this would happen. We watched it happen as the “safe” zones grew smaller and smaller and every time Rafah was targeted by air strikes even before this. And no one who could actually stop this lifted a finger. It’s been 129 days.

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Happy Valentine's Day.

(I'm drawing food art for Lent and today is day one)

If you can and are able, donate to Care for Gaza today 💘

This account is primarily for sharing videos and photos from regular people living in Gaza, but in this post I want to highlight what it is like for someone who has been able to leave.

Maram Alshurafa is a dental student from Palestine. In December, her family was able to send her to safety in Canada.

Despite being somewhere physically safer than Gaza, she is experiencing a new hardship feeling isolated and afraid for her family in Palestine.

Maram is on Instagram @ maram_alshurafa. She is raising funds to help the rest of her family escape. You can help by donating here.

Calorum Cookbook digital sales are re-opening to help donate eSims for Gaza!

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE:

Go to gazaesims.com and follow the instructions to donate and email an eSim.

Upload a screenshot of your email to [email protected] to our google form here. (Make sure you include the date and time emailed/purchased so we can verify. Only newly bought eSims will be redeemed.)

Sit tight and we'll email you a PDF copy of the cookbook!

If you donate an eSim with a data plan worth USD$25 or more, we'll give you the digital merch bundle on top! Thanks everyone!

Shilatembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Traditional dancers perform as the remains of the slain Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba arrive in Shilatembo, where the leader was killed in 1961. The family of Lumumba buried his only known remains – a tooth – in the capital, Kinshasa, this week

Photograph: Guerchom Ndebo/AFP/Getty Images