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@gilly007 @alaamoh @aral @joynewacc still with this bullshit?

How much more evidence are we supposed to bring?

You know what?

I want to silence this bullshit for good. I want a permalink to forward all the “Gaza Verified is a scam” folks to from now on. And this post can be that permalink.

If you don’t believe the content posted by these accounts, their pictures that can’t be found anywhere else on the Web, often still containing the immaculate EXIF headers from their phone cameras, the raw material posted on archive.gaza.onl, the redacted copies of IDs and diplomas that some of them uploaded, their scholarship applications currently processed by academics in the real world, or their videos where you can often hear loud sounds of drones, including some users who uploaded their own verification calls, then you must at least trust the way the Internet works.

As someone who runs a couple of satellite websites for this initiative, I get visits from some of these accounts too. I firmly respect everybody’s privacy - no trackers and no cookies, just plain nginx logs tossed away every 2 days. But if someone keeps making such slanderous claims around a humanitarian initative I also have the duty to provide solid evidence to prevent one the last lifelines to Gaza from being cut.

You want some whois subnet info about the network operators they connect through? Here we go:

And I have other examples too.

I’m only providing info about larger network subnets and operators info here in order to protect their privacy, even if these are dynamic addresses - xxx parts are still obfuscated out of caution. But they are still significative enough to verify which operators run those networks.

Palnet and NewStarMax are the two main providers of network connectivity in Gaza.

Which means that those connections, without a doubt, came from Gaza.

Now, the only way to falsify this statement is by finding at least one commercial VPN provider that provides thousands of IP addresses from data centers in Gaza, from a dozen or so of different class B subnets that are actually allocated for residential or mobile usage.

Or maybe propose that all these connections are being routed by a bunch of Raspberry Pis running Wireguard that are still somehow operating under the rubble.

Until someone can prove any of these statements, my position is clear: we’ve provided in these weeks all the (privacy-respecting) evidence we could against lots of folks who shout “it’s faaaaake” and run away.

Now the burden of proof lies squarely in the hands of these detractors.

If you folks don’t apologize and give a word of comfort to people fighting for their survival who you called scammers, then the whole world ought to know that you are acting in bad faith in the middle of an ongoing genocide with the purpose of cutting the few remaining humanitarian lifelines - and you should be called accountable for that.