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Yousef Mahmoud
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I am Youssef Mahmoud from Gaza 🇵🇸 I am 21 years old I was studying multimedia and animation before the war May God have mercy on my mother and father 💔

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yousefq.bsky.social
في الوضع الصعب الذي نمر فيه جميعا ونقص في المواد الاساسية
وانعدام مقومات الحياة
ألا نستحق
رغيف خبز وكفن؟
In the difficult situation we are all experiencing, with shortages of basic necessities and the absence of the necessities of life, don't we deserve a loaf of bread and a shroud?
May 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
yousefq.bsky.social
بنفع واحد شبعان ينصح واحد جعان ؟
How can a full person advise a hungry person?
Here is Gaza
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May 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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nidalnajla.bsky.social
This happens to @yousefq.bsky.social again and again - he tries to get aid and is told he and his 2 brothers are "not a family." 🤬 I'm worried they'll be denied food boxes under the 🇺🇸 distribution plan.

Can anyone help Yousef get food today? gofund.me/d6c908ef

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Screen shot of message from Yousef: "I'm tired of waiting so long for food today but they didn't give it to me because have no family and don't have a mom or dad. I am very hungry and tired, mom
May 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
yousefq.bsky.social
#Gaza - Unbearable Pain *"In Gaza...👇👇
#Gaza - Unbearable Pain *"In Gaza... houses don't sleep, but they are turned off."* The night folds in fear, and eyes open to news of a neighbor's martyrdom, a street bombed, or a house that was there minutes before disappearing. *"In Gaza... pain isn't a temporary state; it's a companion day and night."* The child here doesn't memorize the names of toys, but rather the sounds of planes and the colors of martyrs.
May 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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yousefq.bsky.social
For your information, in Gaza💔👇
For your information, in Gaza, we don't eat chicken, meat, vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish, milk, labneh, cheese, and the list goes on... No flour, sugar, ghee, oil, thyme, or even work... and the list goes on. No one has gas or electricity, and the list goes on... And we're still alive. Ask me how I'm doing and I'll say, "Thank God." Don't we deserve to live???
May 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
yousefq.bsky.social
For your information, in Gaza💔👇
For your information, in Gaza, we don't eat chicken, meat, vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish, milk, labneh, cheese, and the list goes on... No flour, sugar, ghee, oil, thyme, or even work... and the list goes on. No one has gas or electricity, and the list goes on... And we're still alive. Ask me how I'm doing and I'll say, "Thank God." Don't we deserve to live???
May 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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nidalnajla.bsky.social
@yousefq.bsky.social has been struggling with depression and his rent payment sneaked up on him. He needs $437 to pay for another month in the small room he shares with his 2 brothers.

gofund.me/818dd56b

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Screen shot of text message from Yousef: Yousef: The problem, mom, is that I forgot about the new rent because of the amount of pressure I feel. We rented the room on the 20th of last month. In two days the rent will be for a new month Beth: When is the rent due? Yousef: The day after tomorrow, mom Beth: How much do you need in USD? Yousef: 1050 shekels $437 because $100 is equal to 240 shekels
April 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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nidalnajla.bsky.social
@yousefq.bsky.social and his brothers will lose their small room if they cannot pay rent tomorrow 💔

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Text from Yousef: "I slept a little yesterday, mom Today is Ahmed's birthday and I didn't do anything for him. He asked me, "What will you do for me today?" I told him, Nothing." Tomorrow is the rent payment date, Mom. A family contacted the owner of the room to rent it, and he told them that tomorrow was our last day for the last month, otherwise he would rent it to the new family."
April 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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nidalnajla.bsky.social
The cruelty is the point.
Screen shot of Mondoweiss thread: "Today, Ahmad was quietly released-but not at the gates of Nafha Prison, where his family was waiting. Instead, Israeli authorities released him in Bir as-Sabi, far from their reach."
April 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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nidalnajla.bsky.social
Update: You helped raised $350! I'm so grateful to you. The total cost with commission is about $500 so we are over halfway there! Yousef is at the dentist right now to have the first half of the treatment 💜🫶🏻

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April 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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yousefq.bsky.social
The suffering is still ongoing and the pain is very great💔💔
Throughout our lives, we struggle for survival. Our greatest ambition in this difficult life has become to live one minute in safety, to eat clean food, and to drink clean, unpolluted water. To find treatment without suffering, to sleep peacefully, even for one hour, without fear, without hearing the sound of bombing, planes, and bullets. I am Youssef, I live in Gaza. I am not just a number, as the world sees me. I have a life and a story. I have not tasted happiness since I was young. Until now, all the details of my life are very painful. Before the war, I had braces installed, but I didn't follow up on the treatment since the beginning of the war due to the high cost. Unfortunately, due to the lack of follow-up, 50% of my braces broke, affecting my lips and gums. I went to the doctor, and he told me that each brace would cost 300 shekels. The teeth need 4 braces to repair. The pain is severe. I haven't slept well since yesterday because of the pain. I know that I'm tiring you a lot with me, but everything is difficult here, and the suffering continues.
April 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
yousefq.bsky.social
The suffering is still ongoing and the pain is very great💔💔
Throughout our lives, we struggle for survival. Our greatest ambition in this difficult life has become to live one minute in safety, to eat clean food, and to drink clean, unpolluted water. To find treatment without suffering, to sleep peacefully, even for one hour, without fear, without hearing the sound of bombing, planes, and bullets. I am Youssef, I live in Gaza. I am not just a number, as the world sees me. I have a life and a story. I have not tasted happiness since I was young. Until now, all the details of my life are very painful. Before the war, I had braces installed, but I didn't follow up on the treatment since the beginning of the war due to the high cost. Unfortunately, due to the lack of follow-up, 50% of my braces broke, affecting my lips and gums. I went to the doctor, and he told me that each brace would cost 300 shekels. The teeth need 4 braces to repair. The pain is severe. I haven't slept well since yesterday because of the pain. I know that I'm tiring you a lot with me, but everything is difficult here, and the suffering continues.
April 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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nidalnajla.bsky.social
yousefq.bsky.social had braces before the war, and as they have broken, they've caused him great pain. The insides of his lips are torn open - anyone who has had a canker sore or worse knows how painful this is.

Can you help Yousef raise the first $100 toward treatment?

gofund.me/818dd56b
Screenshot of messages with Yousef: “Since yesterday I haven't slept well because of the severe pain.” Beth: “Can you go to the doctor today?” Youssef: “i can, Mom, but I can't afford the full cost of treatment because my braces are broken. I have to replace the broken braces with missing pieces” Beth: “Do you know how much it will cost?” “The dentist will close before nightfall. Yesterday I asked him, "Mom,and he told me, "Each missing piece is 300 shekels, Mom" and I have four missing teeth due to the braces, but I told him yesterday that I cannot pay the full amount. He told me, "No problem in two sessions.” Screenshot of messages with Yousef: Yousef: Open my mouth all the time, mom. From pain It hurts a lot, mom Mama Mama Beth: I'm going to post soon my ❤️ Yousef: I in SO much pain, mom. I can't bear anything” Screen shot of conversion of 300 shekels to about $78, as of current rates.
April 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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nidalnajla.bsky.social
@yousefq.bsky.social and his brothers continue to need our support. There is very little food available; what is available is incredibly expensive. Like the others, they are exhausted.

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April 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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We die silently, we don't want to bother the world with us💔💔
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April 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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nidalnajla.bsky.social
@yousefq.bsky.social and his brothers have to leave to return to the south before it's too late. They may be able to stay in the same room Bluesky helped them rent before the "ceasefire," it was 1050 shekels or about $280. About $400 with commission.

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Texts from Yousef about how he and his brothers may need to leave their home before it's too late Text from Yousef: Thank you so much, Mom. Things are getting more difficult than before. I don't know what to do. I don't know what we'll do, Mom We have to leave tomorrow before they start going inside For homes Screen shot showing the conversion rate of 1050 shekels to about 287 USD.
March 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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nidalnajla.bsky.social
I promised @yousefq.bsky.social I would post for him. He and his 2 brothers have no food to break their fast. The few things still for sale in the markets are priced very high. His 22nd birthday is in 5 days.

Please find it in your heart to donate and share. 💚

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Screen shot of chat with Yousef: Yousef: What do I want from you? I know that am tiring you a lot. I want you to publish about me because prices have risen and everything has been sold out in the markets. Maybe something will happen. I will have to leave Beth : I will try my best love Yousef: Thanks mom, unfortunately everything is worse than before. I am very tired, mom, very very tired Beth: Me too But not as tired as you love Yousef: I'm suffocated from everything Mom. My birthday will also be the first day of final exams for this semester. I can't concentrate from fear. Screen shot of chat with Yousef: I don't know what to do, mom. I'm so tired. We won't eat today. Beth: I hate that this is happening to you Yousef: I'm tired of everything, mom
March 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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nidalnajla.bsky.social
@yousefq.bsky.social was gifted a portrait by Alex Amoresano, the kind artist from Italy who helps Gazans draw attention to their campaigns 💚

Yousef is
@mommunism.bsky.social verified. He and his 2 brothers are orphaned and living alone in the ruins of their home.

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A photo of Yousef next to his sketch by Alex Amoresano. Check out Alex at https://linktr.ee/amoresanart Sketch of Yousef, a young man in a hood, by Alex Amoresano. Check out Alex at https://linktr.ee/amoresanart
March 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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nidalnajla.bsky.social
Nothing is okay. Everything is an emergency again.

@yousefq.bsky.social has had one donation in the past week. Prices just went up again and gunfire is back all day.

I know you're tired too, but I don't know what else to do.

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Screen shot of text messages from Yousef: I'm tired of everything, Mama. I've almost run out of everything. I only have 200 shekels left for lunch. Life is very hard on me. The news, Mama, says that the war may return. Today, all prices have gone up significantly. Gunshots now, mom. Don't stop since morning I don't know what they want, we're so tired"
March 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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nidalnajla.bsky.social
No one has ever loved or missed their mother more than @yousefq.bsky.social. Since he returned to the ruins of his home in Gaza, Yousef has searched through the rubble for a water bottle his mom used to carry always, worried that somewhere, she is thirsty. 💔

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Goodbye mom, goodbye love of my life Mypen has always written about your love.It never crossed my mind to write about your departure.Imiss you, oh my mother, it burns my heart. It is difficult to explain a story in the soul that I do not know how to describe am drowning in a sea of - pain, as if never knew sadness, a frightening sadness that runs, cries, flees from this world to this world, without a world, without a beloved, oh my sorrows, scream, and oh my wounds, bleed Say goodbye my love, goodbye my mother Screen shot of texts with Yousef: "When the war ended and I came home here, I missed my mother very much at home There is a water bottle that my mother used to drink from before she died and so far the water bottle has not dropped as it is. l'm afraid my mother is thirsty and has nothing to drink" Beth: "She is so lucky to have a son like you" Yousef: "She was my whole life, never skimping on me when she was alive" Beth: "I'm so sorry she is gone" Yousef: "I was so tired after that and I missed her every moment"
February 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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nidalnajla.bsky.social
@yousefq.bsky.social is preparing for Ramadan and he shared with us some of the things he'll need. Other folks in Gaza have the same needs during the coming month - please share widely so that when Gazans ask for help during Ramadan, people will have an idea of what is needed. 💚

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Screen shot of messages between Yousef and Beth: Yousef: "I hope so, Mama. Mama, l'm going to bother you a little with me. I want you to post about me, if possible, because Ramadan requires many basic requirements. If possible" Beth: "Can you list some requirements so I can explain in my post?" Yousef: "Mama, the requirements are like eating two meals a day, one at suhoor and the other meal at breakfast, water, bread, juice, fruit, and good food so that we can endure the fast for a long time, Also the price of medicine and transportation to go to the market because it is not possible to walk while fasting because lam very tired and my immunity, Mama, is very weak and I cannot bear everything."
February 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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nidalnajla.bsky.social
Please don't forget @yousefq.bsky.social - he and his brothers literally don't know where their next meal is coming from 💔

gofund.me/bb6addcc 🌙✨️💛
March 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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paypal.me/bethtatum
@comradecat.bsky.social
I am Yousef Mahmoud. I was studying before the war, specializing in multimedia and animation. I created a 3D film. The film explains the story of the child martyr, Muhammad al-Durra, who was killed in 2000. This period took me a period of two to three months. The film is available on YouTube under the name “Their Memory Remains,” Muhammad Al-Durra I wanted to continue my work online through design, creating cartoons, and editing But because of the war, my laptop is broken and it costs a lot to repair If you can donate to me to fix my laptop and donate to me food and drink, because soon the month of goodness and blessings will come, the month of Ramadan, in which we get closer to God by fasting, and this month has many requirements, such as iftar and suhoor at dawn. If you can donate to me through my friend Beth and write a donation note to yousef
February 22, 2025 at 6:36 AM
yousefq.bsky.social
paypal.me/bethtatum
@comradecat.bsky.social
I am Yousef Mahmoud. I was studying before the war, specializing in multimedia and animation. I created a 3D film. The film explains the story of the child martyr, Muhammad al-Durra, who was killed in 2000. This period took me a period of two to three months. The film is available on YouTube under the name “Their Memory Remains,” Muhammad Al-Durra I wanted to continue my work online through design, creating cartoons, and editing But because of the war, my laptop is broken and it costs a lot to repair If you can donate to me to fix my laptop and donate to me food and drink, because soon the month of goodness and blessings will come, the month of Ramadan, in which we get closer to God by fasting, and this month has many requirements, such as iftar and suhoor at dawn. If you can donate to me through my friend Beth and write a donation note to yousef
February 22, 2025 at 6:36 AM