Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)

A quick Gaza Verified update:

I’m currently traveling so I won’t be online all the time in the next week.

I’m also working on a new automated verification call scheduling system that I hope we can start using next week. It will automate everything but the actual video calls themselves and add some more checks to our verification process. It also removes Signal from our process, replacing it with an embedded Jitsi video call component.

These developments are based on our experiences with @joynewacc of running Gaza Verified for about a month now, including the week-long emergency campaign in which we raised $40K to help our families move to the South.

I will update those of you waiting for verification about the status and the new process next week.

We will also be contacting some of the most at risk people on Sunday to schedule calls for them on Monday, even before the new system is launched.

I hope the new system will allow us to help our families from Gaza on the fediverse in a more efficient way.

Lots of love and solidarity to you all.

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#Gaza #Palestine #fediverse #Mastodon #GazaVerified #FreePalestine

@rodaina85 Anytime, Rodaina 💕

@rodaina85 I can imagine. But if there’s less than $260 left, and you update the post, people will be able to see the effects of what their donations are doing and that will help your campaign :)

@rodaina85 Of course. Did you get any more donations? If so, updating the original post will help.

@ciccillo Sadly, that’s not sustainable. We managed it with 16 families but can’t with more. And the large amount raised made us a target. Also, it has the effect of stopping donations to individual Palestinian’s fundraisers and folks in the South need to eat too. I don’t want to centralise things. We will continue to support individual accounts.

The situation has evolved a bit, I’m continuing this thread because it has good visibility.

There are 2 main roads that go from the north to the south of the Gaza Strip: Salah al-Din Road in the middle, and Al-Rashid Coastal Road.

Two days ago, Israel seized control of both, and it closed them.

15/19

Half a million Palestinians are still in Gaza City and the northern areas of the Gaza Strip. The situation is very difficult and very dangerous. Most notably the exorbitant costs of currently more than $4,000 per family to evacuate. Many people die in Israeli air strikes or random unpredictable gunfire. Boys, girls, mothers. And if they stay, their fate is likely to become martyrs.

18/19

They want to completely empty Gaza City of its population. What is it called when a country does that? Ethnic cleansing? Genocide? War crime?

The neighbourhood where I grew up is unrecognisable. The town where my grandparents were born was erased.

They say everyone who stays is a terrorist.

17/19

Salah al-Din Road has been mostly unusable for a while. Too many checkpoints, and it’s too dangerous with shelling and random unpredictable gunfire.

But for the last 2 days, Al-Rashid Coastal Road is now under Israeli control too, and they closed it. It’s forbidden to go from south to north, only north to south. They’re denying Gazans freedom of movement, and they’re preventing the circulation of medicine. They’re isolating Gaza City.

16/19

If you found this thread interesting, please share it with your friends and followers.

If you’re inclined to get me a coffee or a ghraybeh, please donate to my PayPal account or my Chuffed fundraising campaign.

➡️ https://paypal.me/Mohammedshbair727

➡️ https://chuffed.org/project/mohshbairgaza

You may alternatively donate to the Gaza Verified appeal to spread your donation across several families.

➡️ https://gaza-verified.org/emergency/

And don’t forget to protest, boycott, pray for us, message us…

Much love.

14/14
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Folks, Alaa is still in the North. She cannot evacuate due to lack of money.

Please help if you can.

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#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified https://mastodon.social/@alaamoh/115282884767470197

@agger @emanahmed Thank you so much for standing with our families in Gaza :)

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@alaamoh @raphaellakay Alaa, please ask me on the Gaza Verified Signal group to boost your posts. If you mention lots of people with the same message here, people will report your account. It’s against the rules of Gaza Verified.

I can boost your posts if you let me know on the main Gaza Verified Signal group.

And if you can write updates on what you need, other people will boost it too.

What helps is having a weekly goal: e.g., $500/week for basic necessities and giving people updates as donations come in so they see how they’re helping.

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@divya Of course :) Done! 💕

@staff Good to know, thank you.

Come on folks, we can help this family reach their goal and escape to safety in the South :)

$260 left on $1,000 goal.

Please help if you can and share so others might too.

Thank you!

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#Gaza #GazaVerified #FediAid #mutualAid #Palestine https://mastodon.social/@Selaa/115309700959630540

@freediverx @GlobalSumudF What can I say, I knew they were smart animals; didn’t know they were good at heart too.

@raphaellakay Have you reported them? I’m traveling at the moment.

“Israel’s army is using remote-controlled vehicles packed with explosives to demolish entire neighbourhoods in besieged Gaza City after issuing a ‘last chance’ to leave warning to hundreds of trapped Palestinians.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/3/live-israel-blows-up-gaza-city-homes-as-palestinians-ordered-to-flee

They have nowhere to go, you genocidal fucks. You dregs of humanity. May you get your comeuppance a thousandfold.

#israel #genocide #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

@Geri @joynewacc Ah, your partner, sorry, I misremembered from the time of the protest.