Looking forward to holding our four video interviews for Gaza Verified today in 15 minutes and hopefully welcoming four new families from Gaza to ours.
You can find all our families, including ones who are not yet verified but scheduled for video interviews, at:
https://gaza-verified.org/people/
Please do help them out by donating to their fundraisers, if you can, and please let others know so they can too.
PS. We now have almost a week of interviews booked :)
@Jeanneadebats
Ooh merci beaucoup jeanne, honoré d'avoir une écrivaine comme toi :)
L'article en anglais auquel je répond donne quelques pistes.
Mais l'idée, globale, c'est de raconter comment est né l'initiative #gazaverified, pour
- partager une histoire touchante qui existe grâce au fediverse (les palestiniens concernés se sont pour la plupart fait exclure des réseaux connus). Elle est né de la belle rencontre de aral et joy (je leur poserai des questions)
- montrer ce que vivent les gazaouis concernés, leurs témoignages et pourquoi leur donner direct. de l'argent sauve leur vie
- donner confiance aux donateurs potentiels
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I have previously, in good faith, reached out to the person claiming to run "Gaza Verified," and they showed no interest in taking action. In fact, their own website is independently attempting to raise $36,000.
I understand that many people want to help — what’s happening in Gaza is truly awful. But you'd be wiser to donate through trusted organizations like the Red Cross or, as someone else suggested, UNICEF, rather than responding to random direct messages.
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First, let me say: what’s happening in Gaza is absolutely awful. But what’s also awful is that there are dishonest people taking advantage of others during a crisis.
In one photo, from Facebook (my job, where I work), we had a woman claiming to be a 36-year-old mother of two children, ages 4 and 7. She spaced out the URL in her post, hoping it wouldn’t get flagged by spam filters (it did). The very next day, someone on the Fediverse posted the exact same message, with the same URL. The only differences were that they used a different name, a different profile photo, and claimed to be a 19-year-old girl.
I have reviewed every account associated with the group known as “Gaza Verified” — and they are all scammers. Every single one of them.
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Coucou les magazines engagés, ça vous dirait de faire un article / interview avec ces palestiniens présents dans le fediverse ?
Ils sont accessibles en directe via signal et joy peut faire la traduction depuis l'arabe.
Vous pouvez aussi parler de l'initiative #gazaverified portée par @joynewacc et @aral, une très belle histoire, pour mettre en lumière tous ceux qui appartiennent à ce programme et qui ont besoin d'aide pour survivre !
Merci de votre aide pour rendre ce monde plus solidaire :)
@mediapart
@mediapartblogs
@Reporterre
@frustrationmagazine
@terrestres
My friends, my account in Gaza has been verified. Please raid my account, share my suffering, and help me overcome the horrors of war and displacement. I also do not want to forget to extend my sincere thanks to Mr. Aral for helping me. I thank you all.#
@aral 🙏🙏
#gazaverified
#gaza
Hello everyone,
@joynewacc and I had the honour of speaking to four lovely people from Gaza today over video chat and we’d like to welcome them to the Gaza Verified family.
They are:
• Mohamed Naji – @mohamednaji
• Rania Rizq – @Rania
• Ibrahim – @ibrahim46
• Islam and her family – @eslamradwan1_D_5
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, please help them with their fundraisers and please share this so others might also.
💕
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification
At this rate, the Palestinian community will be the largest among Arabic-speaking communities in the Fediverse.
"Je fais de mon mieux. Je ne suis pas quelqu'un qui a l'habitude de partager ma vie publiquement, mais je fais de mon mieux. Je vous jure que je fais de mon mieux, car j'ai besoin d'aide.
Internet coûte cher, je ne peux pas me permettre de dépenser trop. Télécharger des vidéos et des photos coûte cher. Chaque fois que nous recevons de l'argent, ma famille en a besoin pour se nourrir.
Je vous jure que je fais de mon mieux."
https://mas.to/@bilal_mo/115383825873716261
💔 Ça me fait mal au cœur de voir ces messages parce que leurs demande d'aide n'est pas partagée, et particulièrement sur le fediverse francophone..
#gazaverified #fediverse
So happy to see that we have three full days of verification interviews lined up (starting today) and that slots are already filling up for next Tuesday (we hold the interviews on weekdays) :)
https://gaza-verified.org/people/#scheduled-for-verification
There are a few niggles I’m working on ironing out and a few improvements I’ve got lined up to improve the experience but the main functionality seems to be working 🤞
If you are from Gaza and want your Mastodon account verified so we can protect it from attacks and protect you from scammers, please schedule a verification interview:
https://gaza-verified.org/join/
#Gaza #Palestine #Mastodon #fediverse #GazaVerified #FreePalestine
Dear friends💙
I’m trying to reach my goal of $700 before the end of this week so I can cover my basic needs and continue facing the difficult living conditions here in Gaza.
Every contribution makes a real difference and helps me move forward.
And if you’re unable to help financially, simply sharing the link🙏
✅Verified By:
https://gaza-verified.org/people/@MahmoudGaza@mastodon.scot/
✅Donation Link :
https://gofund.me/334c7485
#gaza #palestine #MutualAidRequest #donate #donation #israel #humanrights #human #gazaverified
Hey everyone, the new Gaza Verified web site is now live!
If you’ve been waiting for verification, you can now sign up for a video call (the first ones will be tomorrow).
للأصدقاء من غزة - فلسطين : الطريقة الجديدة لتثبيت حسابات ماستودون عبر منصة #GazaVerified
Sneak peek into the new, automated, Gaza Verified sign up, scheduling, and verification process.
The one-minute video shows the whole process in action.
Unless I find some last-minute bugs, this will be launching today and @joynewacc and I can restart validations this week with a process that means I spend one hour a day on it instead of the whole day (I’ve automated everything I was previously doing manually).
#GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #Mastodon #fediverse #Jitsi #Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech
🚨 I’m rania, Gaza.
My little girl’s arm was broken in the war, and my husband was injured.
We have nothing for winter—no clothes, no blankets300$.
help with treatment and warmth for my children..🙏
🔗 Donate here:
@aral
@joynewacc
@mohshbair
@mittall
@abeerabed22
@nourgaza
@NouranKhaledGh
@MahmoudGaza
Watch out for unexploded bombs if exploring the rubble!
"The risks are enormous — an estimated 70,000 tons of explosives have been dropped on Gaza
[..]
In January, the UN’s Mine Action Service (UNMAS) estimated that “5 to 10 percent” of the munitions fired on Gaza had not exploded.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/unexploded-ordnance-gaza-1.7556731
I could not find you on #GazaVerified
How can that be? I hope you are honest but this looks like you just put the link there, without actually being verified
Better #photo :
https://millerebonds.piwigo.com/picture?/1159/category/9-details
Hop un #frelonasiatique : comestible je te dis!!
#chat #chats #catsofmastodon #cats #cat #animals #siamesecat #animaux #animauxdecompagnie #photography #pets #peace
Une pensée aux gens de #gaza, pour leur donner
https://gaza.onl/accounts
#gazaverified #gazadonations
Un autre point très important, cette entité #GHF a alimenté le marché noir et a provoqué l'envol des prix, chose que l'on a pu lire malheureusement ici avec tous les témoignages des palestiniens présents sur #gazaverified !
La conséquence, c'est la mort des plus faibles, des moins chanceux et des plus pauvres..
"Les commerçants revendent l'aide humanitaire acheminée à Gaza par la nouvelle et controversée Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), soutenue par les États-Unis. Les pénuries criantes et les meurtres de personnes se rendant sur place pour récupérer des provisions alimentent un marché noir de produits de première nécessité."
https://www.ft.com/content/25933dc4-8cbe-46fa-a2b7-47c7906baa8f
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