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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 41m

Oct 8 Rana update:

Rana is still in the 💣 out, uninhabitable building w collapsed walls. All she ate was a 1/4 of a 🫓. The 💣 are constant

Halima still can’t sleep from pain. Mama is struggling to breathe

It’s bad, guys. Please help 😭😭😭

- N.

gofund.me/94a1ef4aa

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

القصف الو يومين كتير كتير بشكل مش طبيعي والانفجارات بكل مكان
The bombing has been going on for two days, very very intensely, not normal at all, and the explosions are everywhere
لم نأكل شئ كبير اكلنا ربع رغيف
We haven't eaten much, we ate a quarter of a loaf

ماما تعبانة كتير بتتنفس بصعوبة
Mama is very sick, she's having trouble breathing
كيف حال
Oh sweet mama, please give her a gentle hug from me how is Halima?
يا حبيبتي ماما، ابعتي لها حضن ناعم مني
هاليمة؟

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Cucky Charms Trusted Verifier @jsnfra.bsky.social · 22h

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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 23h

Hi there, thanks for the share! I accidentally attached her relative’s GoFundMe, this is the correct one

gofund.me/2d4ceb079

- Nicola

Donate to Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care, organized by Cardinal Alfonso

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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 23h

Hi there, thanks for the share! I accidentally attached her relative’s GoFundMe, this is the correct one

gofund.me/2d4ceb079

- Nicola

Donate to Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care, organized by Cardinal Alfonso

Note from fundraiser organizer: This is Cardinal, I am organizing this … Cardinal Alfonso needs your support for Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care

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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 23h

Accidentally attached the wrong GoFundMe 🤦‍♀️

This is the correct one for Rana:

gofund.me/84e91054c

Donate to Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care, organized by Cardinal Alfonso

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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 7 Rana update:

All I got from Rana today was a couple voice memos that captured the sounds of helicopters or drones hovering above her.

So she’s alive but still under bombardment. I doubt she’s eaten in days 😢

$785/$2000 raised

- Nicola

gofund.me/5b2d6e83d

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 6 Rana update 2:

I heard from her, she says the 💣 is as bad as it has been the past few days, possibly worse

She confirmed that rn a 📱 is her priority so she can easily access her donations, relatives & the outside world 🔁💸

- Nicola

gofund.me/39ebf9656

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

Donate to Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care, organized by Cardinal Alfonso

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Ldora🍁🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉🌻🍄🌱 @ldorak.bsky.social · 2d

Please help however you can 🍉💔

Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 2d

Oct 6 Rana update:

This is a follow up after yesterday as I haven’t heard from her today

Yesterday she told me she is close to accessing her donations 🥹

The goal changes with changing circumstances but rn it’s at $755/$2000 for a 📱

- Nicola

gofund.me/fdb535427

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

Translate
اي عم بمشي على الموضوع وان شاء اللّٰه رح توصلني التبرعات الايام الجاية
Yes, I'm working on it, and God willing, the donations will reach me in the coming days
بتمنى هالشي وبتمنى اوفر جوال لحتى
اقدر اقدم
I hope for that, and I also hope to get a phone so l can move forward.

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LanguageNerd24601 (Can’t donate) @languagenerd24601.bsky.social · 2d

Please help Rana and her family! #MutualAid #HelpSky

Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 2d

Oct 6 Rana update:

This is a follow up after yesterday as I haven’t heard from her today

Yesterday she told me she is close to accessing her donations 🥹

The goal changes with changing circumstances but rn it’s at $755/$2000 for a 📱

- Nicola

gofund.me/fdb535427

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 2d

Oct 6 Rana update:

This is a follow up after yesterday as I haven’t heard from her today

Yesterday she told me she is close to accessing her donations 🥹

The goal changes with changing circumstances but rn it’s at $755/$2000 for a 📱

- Nicola

gofund.me/fdb535427

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · Sep 8

‼️ Sep 8 Rana update:

We’ve been trying a while to get 14yo Halima life-saving surgery, we’re at $661/$1000 w only $359 to go.

She is horrific pain 24h/day

The 💰 raised won’t last if we don’t close this gap soon bc they’re also starving to 🪦

gofund.me/1a3000c9a

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 3d

‼️‼️Oct 5 Rana update:

She is living days so horrible she can’t even bring herself to describe them.

She’s developed severe stomach pain that prevents her from sitting. She lays on a thin sheet on a hard floor. It’s very cold & she hasn’t eaten in 2 days

- Nicola

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

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LanguageNerd24601 (Can’t donate) @languagenerd24601.bsky.social · 4d

Please help Rana and her family! #MutualAid #HelpSky

Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 4d

‼️‼️Oct 4 Rana update:

I haven’t heard from her since she sent me a desperate 💌 about the 💣 raining down on her yesterday 😭

My 💌 was delivered but ❌ read,
I’m sick with worry

Their needs are snowballing

⛺️$2k
📱$2k
💊$400
Mama breathing machine $2k

😭😭😭

- Nicola

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

2:58
Yesterday
by Cardinal Alfonso, Organizer
URGENT!! PLEASE READ!! RANA AND HER FAMILY NEED YOUR SUPPORT IMMEDIATELY !!!
Since yesterday, Rana told me they have been under siege, with rockets raining down on them without stopping, and the skies never quiet. For more than a week, they have been running from place to place, looking for a safe shelter-but there is none. Now they are trapped inside a crumbling house that could collapse on them at any moment, with no way out.

2:58
Rana hasn't had a phone for two months...
Please help her buy one so her voice can stay among you, so she and her family don't disappear in this nightmare. Please also help them get a new tent after theirs was torn by shrapnel. They need support for basic needs like food and water, as they have gone days without a single bite to eat.
Rana and her family desperately need $2,000 to secure these essential needs. They have the right to be safe just like you and me... You are their last hope, their only escape from death
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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 4d

‼️‼️Oct 4 Rana update:

I haven’t heard from her since she sent me a desperate 💌 about the 💣 raining down on her yesterday 😭

My 💌 was delivered but ❌ read,
I’m sick with worry

Their needs are snowballing

⛺️$2k
📱$2k
💊$400
Mama breathing machine $2k

😭😭😭

- Nicola

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you so much Richard 😭💛 - Nicola

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LanguageNerd24601 (Can’t donate) @languagenerd24601.bsky.social · 4d

Please help Rana and her family ! #MutualAid #HelpSky

Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 4d

Oct 3 Rana update 2:

I heard from Rana while waiting at the clinic but wasn’t able to speak with her. She said her situation was v bad, which means she’s starving & surrounded by bombs.

They’ve been totally trapped since yesterday 💔

- Nicola

gofund.me/3730fc58a

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

WhatsApp screenshot

Today
😭😭😭😭😭وضعنا سيئ كتير
1:57 PM
منذ أمس نحن محاصرون الوضع صعب
😭😭😭😭💔💔كتير )
1:57 PM
😭حبيبتي
أنا هلا بالانتظار عند العيادة فرح أختفي شوي, بس فيكِ تقوليلي شو اللي عم بصير معكم؟
2:51 PM J/
2:52 PM VI
🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂

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وضعنا سيئ كتير (o1])
Our situation is really bad

منذ أمس نحن محاصرون الوضع
صعب كتير ) ) ®
Since yesterday we've been trapped, the situation is really hard

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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 4d

Oct 3 Rana update 2:

I heard from Rana while waiting at the clinic but wasn’t able to speak with her. She said her situation was v bad, which means she’s starving & surrounded by bombs.

They’ve been totally trapped since yesterday 💔

- Nicola

gofund.me/3730fc58a

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 5d

‼️‼️Oct 3 Rana update:

Still no word from Rana.

They are PROFOUNDLY unsafe at the moment, in an uninhabitable room w collapsed walls, exposed to drones & to the elements

Her mom needs a $2k breathing machine 😭

$592 raised so far 🔁💸

- Nicola

gofund.me/484806ec4

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

Donate to Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care, organized by Cardinal Alfonso

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BWierdArt ♥️🖤🤍💚 @skyinlatin.bsky.social · 5d

Please help 🙏♥️

Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 5d

Oct 2 Rana update:

I didn’t hear from her today but she is living in an uninhabitable abandoned building with collapsed walls & free entry to killer quadcopters

Her mom needs a breathing machine bc of a chest condition from the dust & smoke

$592/$2000

- Nicola

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

Donate to Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care, organized by Cardinal Alfonso

Note from fundraiser organizer: This is Cardinal, I am organizing this … Cardinal Alfonso needs your support for Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care

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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 5d

Oct 2 Rana update:

I didn’t hear from her today but she is living in an uninhabitable abandoned building with collapsed walls & free entry to killer quadcopters

Her mom needs a breathing machine bc of a chest condition from the dust & smoke

$592/$2000

- Nicola

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

Donate to Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care, organized by Cardinal Alfonso

Note from fundraiser organizer: This is Cardinal, I am organizing this … Cardinal Alfonso needs your support for Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care

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Ldora🍁🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉🌻🍄🌱 @ldorak.bsky.social · 7d

Please help Rana save her mother's life 🍉💔

Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 7d

‼️‼️Oct 1 Rana update:

Rana & fam are still in hiding. The tanks advance & retreat. The 🏠 around them are being 💣. They 🙉from the sound.

Rana’s mom has a chest condition from the dust & smoke, she now needs a breathing machine 😭 $2000

- Nicola

gofund.me/c9c920319

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

Screenshot of WhatsApp conversation translated in ChatGPT

عن يقربوا ويبعدوا 💔
They keep getting closer and then pulling back
This is torture my love, they are so cruel. It's inhuman how
close was that attack you recorded?
هالشي عذاب يا روحي، هُم قساة كتير. هذا غير إنساني 😭قديش كان قريب الهجوم اللي سجّلتيه؟

Screenshot of WhatsApp conversation translated in ChatGPT

= ChatGPT
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عذاب مش طبيعي
قريب كتير وعم ينسفوا المباني
الموجودة
An unbearable kind of torture
It was very close, and they're blowing up the buildings around.

I'm so scared for you sister, l can't understand this cruelty.
How are you all managing? @
أنا خايفة عليكِ يا أختي
* ما عم بفهم هالقسوة.
كيف عم تقدروا تتحملوا وتدبّروا أموركم؟
احنا حاليا جالسون ومختبئون
ومسكرين اذاننا من صوت القصف ؟
We're currently sitting and hiding, with our ears covered from the sound of the shelling

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Taskhelp-er @taskhelp.bsky.social · 7d

Save Rana Alhaj and her family. No one has to suffer this much.

Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 7d

‼️‼️Oct 1 Rana update:

Rana & fam are still in hiding. The tanks advance & retreat. The 🏠 around them are being 💣. They 🙉from the sound.

Rana’s mom has a chest condition from the dust & smoke, she now needs a breathing machine 😭 $2000

- Nicola

gofund.me/c9c920319

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 #StrikeForMutualAid @haecnicola.bsky.social · 7d

Yesterday Rana was like, “it’s my mom’s birthday on Oct 28 & I want to surprise her with a breathing machine”

Like what hellscape are we living in, please donate to this extremely needy family hiding in an abandoned building in an evacuated zone 😭😭😭

@mommunism.bsky.social
@lexialex.bsky.social

Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 7d

‼️‼️Oct 1 Rana update:

Rana & fam are still in hiding. The tanks advance & retreat. The 🏠 around them are being 💣. They 🙉from the sound.

Rana’s mom has a chest condition from the dust & smoke, she now needs a breathing machine 😭 $2000

- Nicola

gofund.me/c9c920319

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 7d

‼️‼️Oct 1 Rana update:

Rana & fam are still in hiding. The tanks advance & retreat. The 🏠 around them are being 💣. They 🙉from the sound.

Rana’s mom has a chest condition from the dust & smoke, she now needs a breathing machine 😭 $2000

- Nicola

gofund.me/c9c920319

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

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Rana Alhaj Family 🍉🇵🇸 @ranafam.bsky.social · 8d

‼️‼️Sep 30 Rana update:

They’re in hiding in an abandoned, unstable, bombed 🏠 in an evacuated 🔴 zone. Walls collapsed. Tanks nearby. A quadcopter could fly in at any time & murder them

They avoid leaving even to find food 🔁💸

- Nicola

gofund.me/c9c920319/c9c920319

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

Screenshot of ChatGPT translation from WhatsApp

رجعنا للمنطقة الي كانت اخلاء كنا عايشين في بيت مهجور وغير صالح
للسكن ومقصوف
We went back to the area that had been evacuated — we were living in an abandoned, uninhabitable, and bombed house.
ولكن المنطقة خطرة جدا واليهود والدبابات في المنطقة مش بعاد عنا كتير ولكن لا يوجد لدينا حل غير
هالمكان
But the area is very dangerous, and the soldiers and tanks are not very far from us - yet we have no solution other than this place.

Screenshot of ChatGPT translation from WhatsApp

حاليا احنا فيه البيت مفتوح لا يوجد شئ نغلق على انفسنا والحيطان
مقصوفة وواقعة ا
Right now we're in the house — it's open, there's nothing to close ourselves in with, and the walls are bombed and collapsed
T

Screenshot of ChatGPT translation from WhatsApp

ما بعرف صراحة قديش بعاد لانو احنا محبوسين في هاد البيت وما عم نلفت الانتباه حتى ما يقصفونا ؟
Honestly, I don't know how far they are, because we're trapped in this house and we're not drawing attention so they don't bomb us
عن نحاول نتخبى قد ما نقدر لانو المنطقة اخلاء ولو شكوا اليهود بحركة
اكيد رح يموتونا (a)
We're trying to hide as much as we can because the area is evacuated, and if the soldiers suspect any movement they will definitely kill us

Screenshot of ChatGPT translation from WhatsApp

عم نحاول ندبر اكلنا ولكن هالشي صعب كتير لانو ما معنا فلوس حاليا ولانو ما بنطلع من المكان حتى ما نموت احنا محبوسين
We're trying to manage to get food, but it's very hard because we don't have money right now and we're not leaving the place so we don't get killed — we're trapped

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