🍉 Gaza Support Hub
Gaza Support Hub is a volunteer, citizen-led effort to support and uplift the people of Palestine.
In addition to the genocide inflicted upon them, Palestinians are being silenced and suppressed on social media. Even after verifying their accounts, many have been permanently banned and forced to create new accounts and start fresh. All the major social media players are complicit in the censorship of Palestinian voices and those who support them.
Bluesky's moderation policies, in particular, have seen hundreds of Palestinian accounts banned and permanently deleted. Palestinians rely on Bluesky — a channel which has billed itself as "the good place" compared to other platforms — to amplify their fundraisers for food, medicine, and other critical humanitarian relief.
Gaza Support Hub was built in direct response to Bluesky's willful ignorance of an open letter (signed by thousands of users, including us) urging them to revise their harmful moderation policies.
This website is currently under construction. We're still adding mutual aid campaigns and stories of Palestinian families, as well as an honor roll and tributes section where families can honor their loved ones properly.
Most importantly, once a fundraising campaign is vetted and added to the Gaza Support Hub, it won't be removed. Even if your social media accounts are removed, banned, or suppressed, your fundraiser will still be here, and we'll still be working to get it in front of as many people as we can.
Everyday citizens just like you who are sick of watching a live-streamed genocide.
Each of us were "just" one person before we combined our skills, talents, and passions to bring this website to life.
That said, we do have some professional experience behind us, expanding our reach and impact. Our co-founder also serves as Communications Officer for a local branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which keeps them up to date on solidarity actions happening nationwide, as well as related government affairs and broad-scale campaigning strategies. And one of our devs has hundreds of hourds under their belt doing grassroots mutual aid campaigning and boosting on Bluesky.
You can get involved by amplifying the work we've done and are doing here, and elsewhere. When states fail, we, the people, must step in, step up, and speak out.
Not quite yet, but we hope to open submissions soon. As we mentioned, we're all volunteers with limited bandwidth. Gathering the existing vetted campaigns, building the website, and conducting outreach to amplify it has been an enormous effort. We currently do not have the time, or skills, to organize a vetting and submission process.
As we continue to grow, we hope this will change so that we can open our doors to all Palestinians in need. We appreciate your understanding, and we'll keep you updated.
To the best of our knowledge, no. We've taken great care to ensure this website is 100% divested from all companies and causes that support genocide.
We're hosted with an EU-based company that runs on 100% renewable energy. We use open-source frameworks to design the site.
No. The only way we'll know if you donated to a campaign through our website is if you tell us yourself.
We don't use customized tracked links to spy on who clicks or makes donations through any of our links. For transparency, we also don't include shortlinks anywhere on our site. Hover over a link to see exactly where it will take you when you click it — almost always to a GoFundMe or Chuffed fundraiser, or another page on our website.
Sounds like something worth sitting with and reflecting on.
Our site is simply a resource for people who want to support and uplift Palestinians in need. Our team's spent hundreds, potentially thousands, of hours talking to and advocating for Palestinian families in need of mutual aid to survive a genocide. Scams are much rarer than they're made out to be, especially since the big platforms like GoFundMe and Chuffed make it difficult enough for Palestinians to fundraise as is.
No. This website generates absolutely $0 in revenue or profit. We actually pay for hosting, domain, and maintenance costs out of our own pockets.
To keep it simple, we don't accept tips, "coffees", or monetary compensation of any kind for the work we do here at Gaza Support Hub. This website is 100% a volunteer-led effort to raise awareness of humanitarian aid funds.
If you'd like to support us, we really appreciate it — and we encourage you to donate to one of the families featured here instead. They need it a lot more than we do.
Thanks so much! Right now, we're keeping our volunteer group limited to invites only.