Maura Finkelstein

We were told it’s impossible to build a new desalination plant in Gaza using different parts that we found inside the Strip. But for The Sameer Project team, there is no impossible! Support now: chuffed.org/project/149178… Around 6 weeks ago, The Sameer Project team hired contractors to work alongside our team members and constructed a desalination plant. This will provide a NEW source of fresh water in a genocide. We are hoping that production will be at 300,000 liters of drinkable water daily. This desalination plant will run on gas and will save us money from having to purchase from other desalination plants. Costs for water distributions will drop meaning that your money will provide more water for Palestinians in Gaza. We are in the final stages of finishing the desalination plant but we still need your material support as the cost of this ended up being $200,000. This is the last stretch, please help us finish. Even if it’s only $5, contribute to the Rebuild Gaza Campaign now: chuffed.org/project/149178… Other ways to donate include: paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Rebuild") account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Ali (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Rebuild")

To every "pro-Palestine" account on social media and platforms IRL, We urge you all desperately to drive awareness, action, and material support to the lifeline4gaza.com platform and grassroots community initiatives like @sameerproject. As you might have heard already, WCK has stopped operating in the south of Gaza and the @sameerproject has had to scale down their daily sandwich distributions by 50% due to lack of funding. Family survival appeals have been stagnating like never before (we currently have over 1,445 appeals on our "5R" stagnation list, many with no donations for several weeks or more). This can't go on like this. If it does, being "pro-Palestine" will no longer mean anything - because no Palestinians will be left in Gaza. We are all in this together, and we all have to make sure this genocide is stopped in its tracks. That is only possible when people actually provide material support to the Palestinian families desperately trying to survive it. So in short: get material support to family survival campaigns at lifeline4gaza.com and grassroots community initiatives like @sameerproject. Plan, organize & act IRL to make #FreePalestine a reality before it's too late!

The Sameer Project is raising $22,000 to provide 400 families of Palestinian hostages with food packages. We launched this campaign a week ago in collaboration with the ministry of detainees and ex-detainees and only managed to raise $4,000 so far. The families of detainees and the ex-detainees refuse to be filmed for safety reasons, understandably so. Solidarity with the hostages who are facing execution can’t just be with petitions and posts, they need material support. Most organizations shy away from supporting this marginalized groups because it’s deemed “too political.” We urge you to donate and share this widely so that we can meet our goal and provide some relief to these families. Our team members report the immense mental load on these families who don’t know if their loved ones in prison are alive or not. Please donate and share widely: chuffed.org/project/help-u…

Honored to be publishing this incredibly researched piece by @MujammaHaraket on @intifada: Debunking the lie that "Israel created Hamas" electronicintifada.net/content/debunk…

We are not numbers. We are a family trying to survive. My children deserve safety, education, and a normal life just like any child. Stand with us. Donate & share 🙏 chuffed.org/project/163039…

NEVER FORGET DEIR YASSIN! — Today we join Palestinians around the world in honoring the martyrs of the Deir Yassin Massacre which took place 78 years ago on April 9th, 1948. On that day, the zionist “Irgun” and “Lehi” terrorist militias raided the village of Deir Yassin outside of Al-Quds under the command of future israeli prime minister Menachim Begin with a pre-mediated plan to carry out mass murder. The zionist forces proceeded to terrorize and massacre over two hundred and fifty Palestinians, the majority of whom were women, children, and the elderly. It was Deir Yassin and dozens of other massacres like it in 1948 and in the years that followed that accelerated the Nakba and the ethnic cleansing of roughly 1 million Palestinians from their homes and lands. Reflecting on how terrorism was used by zionist forces to ethnically cleanse Palestine in the spring of 1948 during the Nakba, Menachim Begin later wrote in 1951, "Without what was done at Deir Yassin there would not have been a state of israel." Just over one month after the Deir Yassin Massacre, the zionity entity declared its “independence.” One photo of the destruction of Deir Yassin (pictured here), shows cactus plants riddled with bullets. Through the generations, the prickly pear cactus plant, "sabr" (which also means patience), came to symbolize Sumud, or Palestinian steadfastness and resilience. From Palestine to Lebanon to Iran, the zionist entity with full backing from the U.S. continues to carry out the genocide of our people and destruction of our homelands. Just yesterday, “israel” massacred over 300 Lebanese and wounded over 1,000 more. In Gaza, occupation forces assassinated journalist Mohammed Washah in an airstrike that targeted his vehicle west of Gaza City and continue to carry out attacks despite the facade of a “ceasefire.” Every massacre carried out by the occupation, from Beirut to Beit Lahia, can be traced back to the Nakba, to Deir Yassin. In the words of Palestinian writer Dina Elmuti, whose grandmother was a survivor of Deir Yassin, “Gaza ignites a sense of pride, not with a nihilistic “nothing to lose” mentality, but rather a sense of dignity that leaves behind an unyielding legacy of resistance. Gaza is not Deir Yassin, and it never will be. Although Gaza evokes images of hell on earth, it instills an unprecedented sense of dignity and honor. Today, the world stands witness to the most incomprehensible atrocities and unfathomable trauma in the open-air crematorium of Gaza. But the terror that once gripped us since Deir Yassin is no more. An indestructible sense of liberation replaced it because Gaza set us all free.” When Palestine is free, when our people have returned, when the rebuilding of our villages begins, when the land welcomes back its rightful owners, we will remember Deir Yassin. Until then, we will never forget, until liberation within our lifetime. Read Dina Elmuti’s piece “Gaza is not Deir Yassin, and it never will be” published on the 77th anniversary last year here: mondoweiss.net/2025/04/gaza-i…

This is our new official account after our previous one was suspended. We are continuing to support families in Gaza with essential needs. If you would like to help our work👇 chuffed.org/project/please… Please follow, share. Thank you Heart for Gaza❤️