"We Write with Our Wounds" - Alaa Abu Islam open.substack.com/pub/connec…
Featuring writing from Alaa, a father of three from northern Gaza.
"A date at iftar becomes proof that we are not forgotten. A sip of water becomes a promise of life. You are not just supporters. You are family." — Alaa, Gaza
This Ramadan, be family. Donations are down. Families need us.
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#Gaza #Ramadan #FreePalestine
Urgent: Gaza is Drowning — Your Help is Needed Now open.substack.com/pub/connec…
“We are shivering from the cold. The tents are flooded. My children and I are drowning.”
These are the real-time messages from families in Gaza as devastating storms bring devastation.
Connecting with Gaza: Aug 9, 2025
While our nervous systems do not understand the famine or siege, our hearts are with our siblings in Gaza.
In Relentless Hope and Solidarity
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Connecting with Gaza: July 3, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/connec…
“Here we are, the people of Palestine, distinguished by chivalry, dignity, pride, and steadfastness. We are the stubborn people who refuse to be broken in the face of the might of the war machine and starvation.”—Maryam from Gaza
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Welcome to our newsletter! For over two years, the families we serve have endured siege, starvation, and relentless violence. Yet their defiance—and your solidarity—has forged lifelines where governments fail.
This newsletter is our shared act of witness.open.substack.com/pub/connec…
"This is what my husband bought for food. There are no vegetables or meat."—T, a Palestinian mother displaced in Egypt with her two daughters. The children’s father is still in Gaza. Visit ConnectingGaza.org/Donate to support Palestinian families.
Help Gaza Families Survive gogetfunding.com/connecting-…
What We’re Doing:
Emergency food baskets via local partners.
Sending direct cash transfers for food, fuel, shelter and medicine.
Supporting community aid projects like clean water delivery and a local Pharmacy.
Connecting Gaza retweeted
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the modern state of Israel is not what’s in the Bible.
It’s not a screen for you to project your religious fantasies onto.
Real people live there and are suffering horribly because of your delusions.
Connecting Gaza retweeted
Please help me , I need food😭
Please help me , I need food😭
Please help me , I need food😭
Please help me , I need food😭
Please help me , I need food😭
I beg you to help me provide milk for my baby 😭
Pray for him😭
gofund.me/c1d2df66
Connecting Gaza retweeted
Unfortunately I had to cancel all my upcoming events in the United States as I felt unsafe traveling, especially after watching students and university professors abducted on the street just in front of other people. I had 16 events scheduled for the next five weeks (at Stanford, Columbia, NYU, and Cornell among other places). You cannot imagine how much I was waiting to meet you all, friends and others.
But canceling events is not more heartbreaking than watching Israel’s brutal canceling of my people’s lives in Gaza.
I even don’t feel safe going out to pick up my kids from school.
These threats made online against me and my family are vile. And the serious threats and actions against free speech are even more vile.
Connecting Gaza retweeted
"Please, I have nothing.
"My tent was bombed; I miraculously survived.
"My children are screaming in fear.
"My eldest daughter in a state of panic, fear and dread," Walaa, 29yo mother of 3
A tent costs US$400, pls give something: connectinggaza.org/donate
@Connecting_Gaza
Connecting Gaza retweeted
Please, please help! Walaa, 29-yo mother of 3 fled the bombing with her kids and her blind brother. Their tent was destroyed. They lost everything, have nothing. Help us get them a new tent for US$400, please.
connectinggaza.org/donate
@Connecting_Gaza
Connecting Gaza retweeted
We're still directly aiding families in #Gaza.
Even with a #ceasefire, they'll need massive help.
Please help us help them with food, shelter, warm clothing, medical care and more. 🤲
connectinggaza.org/donate
@Connecting_Gaza
Connecting Gaza retweeted
Families in #Gaza are desperate, struggling to survive the Israeli #genocide. We send direct aid (money) so they can buy basic food, blankets, shelter, medical care. Please donate to help us help them: connectinggaza.org/donate
@connecting_gaza
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