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    • MSF provide health services and are around 80% efficient (20% of your donation goes to overhead). I’m not sure if they make it easy to earmark a donation to Gaza.
    • UNICEF does more infrastructure projects, but have around 30% overhead.

    If you really want to maximize your impact, check if your employer or professional association have donation matching for various large charities.

    There are obviously many more charities - these are two that I believe have the highest chances of actually reaching civilians in Gaza and not being diverted.


  • It’s published in their opinion section by an author who has only published this one article on MEE, with this disclaimer:

    The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.

    Opinion articles tend to rely on sources that have not been formally verified in the journalistic sense. That’s why they’re disallowed by Rule 3 in the sidebar.

    I did skip over the first paragraph - janky formatting on my phone.

    Looking at the report linked in the first paragraph - it’s published by DCI-P, a nonjournalistic organization. They’ve been accused of being connected to terrorist funding in the past (apparently with sufficient evidence to make their banks close their accounts), but I don’t see them on the OFAC lists so it’s not a smoking gun to not trust them. Haaretz covered it, and it does seem to be a legitimate account of using a human shield with no followup prosecution coverage of the forces involved.

    The second link is a tweet by an Iranian news station. Iran is not an unbiased source for news about Israel/Palestine.

    The embedded tweets (now that they actually load) are referring to the same incident in May 2022. Are you perhaps referring to the May 2002 incident mentioned a few paragraphs later?



  • From the reports I’ve seen which are far from comprehensive, it’s closer to 99%.

    Almost certainly - Israeli military censorship of the media is fairly comprehensive. They are famously overzealous to the point of refusing to release information even if it would be beneficial to Israel’s image - just to protect opsec.

    With the release of the doctrinal document, indicating the depopulation plan of the Gaza strip, move the civilian south, keep the pressure up, then somehow move them into Egypt.

    Yeah, that document is incredibly worrying. But it’s not an official planning document, and the rest of the government seems against it at the moment. From what I can tell, it was authored in part by Kohelet, the same thinktank that put together the judicial reform plan that caused mass protests in Israel earlier this year.

    …guarantee that they would be allowed to return to their homes…

    Very good point. I doubt they trust the IDF much, but perhaps if it were backed up by the US/Egypt some might accept that.




  • steventhedev@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldWhat is hamas ?
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    Hamas is a terrorist organization currently engaged in a war with Israel. They are the defacto rulers of the Gaza strip, and most of their members are in Gaza. However, many Hamas leaders live outside of Gaza.

    They are listed as a terrorist organization by the US, Canada, UK, the EU, and more.

    Their charter declares their goals to be the violent destruction of Israel, the establishment of an Islamic caliphate in the land of Palestine, and killing all Jews worldwide.