Gaza Verified

Hey everyone,

@casey@kafeneio.social and @aseelfromgz@mastodon.social had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• asmaayyad (@asmaayyad@mstdn.social)
• Mohamadsohiel (@Mohamadsohiel@mastodon.social)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

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#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

Hey everyone,

@casey@kafeneio.social and @rania40@mastodon.social had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• 🍉Braa🇵🇸🍉 (@braa@mastodon.social)
• Mona (@monaashqer@mastodon.social)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

Hey everyone,

@casey@kafeneio.social and @aseelfromgz@mastodon.social had the honour of speaking to three families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Shima (@shimaqassas@mastodon.social)
• Sanaa (@amazing_sanaa@mastodon.social)
• Riyad Mousa (@RiyadMousa@mastodon.social)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

Hey everyone,

@casey@kafeneio.social and @rania40@mastodon.social had the honour of speaking to one family from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Mamdouh Amin (@mamdouh1982@mastodon.social)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their account, and donate to their fundraiser if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

Hey everyone,

@casey@kafeneio.social and @aseelfromgz@mastodon.social had the honour of speaking to four families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Saja Gaza (@saiashshsh18@mastodon.social)
• DiaaGaza (@DiaaMahmoud97@mastodon.social)
• Abdulrahman and my family🇵🇸🍉 (@abdulrahmanandmyfamily@mastodon.social)
• Hadeel Diaa (@Hadeel2004@mastodon.social)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

Hey everyone,

@casey@kafeneio.social and @rania40@mastodon.social had the honour of speaking to three families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• 🍉Kholud from Gaza 🇵🇸 (@Kholud1972@freesewing.social)
• Sara (@umsara068@mastodon.social)
• AbedAshour (@abedashour@metroholografix.ca)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

Hey everyone,

@casey@kafeneio.social and @aseelfromgz@mastodon.social had the honour of speaking to three families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• husseinshamia93 (@husseinshamia93@mastodon.social)
• Mohammed Alshaer (@Malshaer@mastodon.social)
• Mahmoudmohmmed (@mahmoudmohmmed233@mastodon.social)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

Hey everyone, @casey@kafeneio.social and @aseelfromgz@mastodon.social had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified. They are: • asmaa-mahmoud (@asmaa98@mastodon.social) • Ahmad (@Ahmadfamily@mastodon.social) Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same). Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis): https://gaza-verified.org/donate/ Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support. 💕 #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

Hey everyone,

@casey@kafeneio.social and @rania40@mastodon.social had the honour of speaking to one family from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Diala Awad (@dialaawad@mastodon.social)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their account, and donate to their fundraiser if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

Hey everyone,

@casey@kafeneio.social and @joynewacc@mastodon.social had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Jihad (@jehad18990@mastodon.social)
• MazuzaSabaa (@mazuza@mastodon.social)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

We have closed video verification sign-ups for the time being as we have a backlog of calls that fill February and @joynewacc@mastodon.social has started an internship for her university which means she can only help out on Fridays instead of during weekdays. So we will be rescheduling the existing calls to fit her new availability.

(She is in Gaza and is a volunteer who is facing the same ongoing genocide that the people she’s trying to help are. You can support her fundraiser at https://www.chuffed.org/project/evacuate-joy).

We also have plans to evolve how verifications happen so that our existing group of verified families will be able to verify people they know and trust going forward so there will be an alternative to the video verification. We’ll update you when that’s ready. Going forward, we hope that this will be an initiative driven by Palestinians for Palestinians.

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#GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine

There are some anonymous conspiracy theory accounts popping up that allege that Gaza Verified is a scam and that everyone verified by us is a scammer.

Some of the outrageous claims made by these accounts include:

• They can’t be real because there is no Internet access in Gaza (there is, although it is unreliable and spotty).

• They can’t be real because everyone in Gaza is dead (seriously, one of them actually said this).

• And, showcasing just horrible and lacking of basic humanity these people are, there is a recent one that assets that Aseel (@aseelfromgz@mastodon.social) – one of our team members¹ – is impersonating a Palestinian woman from Gaza who was murdered in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. (This particularly nasty and personal conspiracy theory uses the image of a different Aseel – think “Mary” or “Jane” in the West – as its “proof”).

While we don’t post our verification videos to respect the privacy of our friends in Gaza, we did record the one we held Friday with @shahedgaza@mastodon.social that Aseel was helping us run and, with her permission, are posting it here and pinning it to our account so you can see what our verification calls are actually like.

https://vimeo.com/1144265441

If you see posts by these conspiracy theorists (a few of them have “Linux” in their handles), please report and block them.

If you are running a Mastodon server and you allow such conspiracy theorists on your servers, you should be ashamed of yourselves. Please report servers that do not take action on such accounts after they are reported to them to the #fediblock tag so they can be blocked/defederated with on the server-level by servers run by decent human beings.

Thank you.

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¹ https://gaza-verified.org/team/