Palestinians in Gaza need our support. lifeline4Gaza makes it easier to do so.

This is a brief written exchange with two of the founders of a site that is doing very important work in supporting Palestinians in Gaza, lifeline4Gaza [https://lifeline4gaza.com/]. I’m in no way affiliated with the organization, but as Gaza is very dear to my heart, I deeply appreciate what the volunteers are doing, and can vouch for the integrity of one of them, having been in touch with Ainiladra on X for many years. Keep in mind that Palestinians are dignified and would not ask for support if they hadn’t been subjected to an endless, ongoing, genocide. They are, consequently, dependent on outside support for their very survival. Please consider supporting this project, and thus Palestinians in need, in the ways outlined in their replies. Thank you!

 

–The tragedies Palestinians in Gaza continue to suffer are so widespread and endless. Has the need for support decreased since the so-called Trump 20 point plan to end the war in Gaza?

The “Trump plan” is illegal and unworkable and worse than not helping, it and the so-called ceasefire which has not stopped US-Zionist aggression have lulled people into thinking that the genocide in Gaza is over. The plan ignores the most basic rights of Palestinians to self-determination, dignity and return and exculpates the occupier of any accountability.

Once again, a UN stamp has been given to further Palestinian dispossession and genocide. Besides that, its not implementable. Crossings remain largely closed to people and the most essential basic goods and desperately needed medical supplies and reconstruction equipment. The civil infrastructure remains without electricity and sufficient fuel.

 

*From the lifeline4Gaza website

–What is lifeline4Gaza (LL4G)? How and when did it form?

It formed by destiny :). Ainiladra, like many others on X (& Instagram & elsewhere) now working on maintaining LL4G, was quoting and promoting dozens of fundraisers. And she was struggling to keep up with the many requests and so had decided to prioritize promoting those who were receiving very few donations.

She noticed the name Gijsbert among the donors on many of the appeals she was circulating and looked it up on twitter and found the account “bug0xr” and privately messaged him to thank him for his generosity. He said he noticed what she was doing (trying to prioritize neglected appeals) and had a simple software solution for it if she was interested. What he began as a simple solution developed into a proper website in July 2025, allowing volunteers to enter in several hundred appeals, initially.

The project developed to include dozens of volunteers who not only promote appeals, but also organize several themselves, with another team of volunteer translators and designers of flyers. There are now over 1900 appeals listed, and more every day. There is also an on-site submission form (also in Arabic, among several other languages), so anyone from Gaza or their supporters can apply.

The work of volunteers in really driving the site’s development cannot be understated. They are coming up with such creative ideas to promote it (like the Advent Calendar for Christmas and creating postcards using artwork from people in Gaza). There have been many challenges because X keeps suspending many Gaza-based accounts, whose entries need constant updating as a result. They also suspended ll4gaza’s original account and bug0xr’s!

And yet, the project keeps moving forward. To be there for people in Gaza, Palestine, because they need support. 

*(This is a condensed summary of the reply to this question. I’ll put the entire reply at the bottom of this post.)

 

-Do you take any cut of the funds raised?

We do not take any funds ourselves; instead we redirect visitors who want to donate to a specific campaign to the fundraiser platform it is hosted on. Thus 100% of each donation goes directly to the family or initiative via the original platform, minus only that platform’s standard processing fees.

 

-Many people want to help, but are worried about being scammed. How do you vet campaigns?

Many of the campaigns that are listed on ll4gaza are supported by groups that have already verified them (like @gazafunds and @palestineasdiqa, to name just a few). These campaigns are clearly tagged as such on the website. 

For campaigns that lack such support, peer-to-peer confirmation has been undertaken, where we consult known Gaza-based individuals, centering the knowledge & expertise of those enduring this genocide.

 

-If people don’t have the money to donate, does merely sharing campaign on X and other platforms help?

Although sharing campaigns on social media might help spotlight some of them, only those that get real traction (i.e., those that go ‘viral’) will see any significant support – and even then, that support usually ebbs out after a day or two. Those are the outliers, though. Most campaigns only get circulated among the circulators themselves (due to how the algorithms on these platforms work, preferring to push content people are most susceptible to), or get no real circulation at all (due to suppression on the platforms).

At lifeline4gaza.com, we are currently listing 1900+ campaigns, of which 900+ have gone without a donation for 5 to 26 days, with most of the beneficiaries having social media presence – clearly indicating that sharing campaigns on these platforms is no winning strategy.

We therefore advise people to (besides sharing individual campaigns) also share the link to lifeline4gaza.com, where every campaign listed gets its turn at the top of the list, based on how much funding it has received over 5 days & on how long it has been stagnant. This sorting is done quasi real-time, to make sure that every appeal gets its fair turn, without any algorithm (or executive decree) intervening in that process.

In addition to all of this, we also urge people to take campaigning ‘offline’: on the website we host many flyers, in multiple languages, which can be printed at home and taken everywhere you go. Put them on notice boards at your school, office, club house, protest – anywhere.

 

-What are the most common, and most urgent, needs Palestinians in Gaza have now?

Honestly, this is not something we are able to answer, because the needs are so vast and the urgency of them so real; it’s indescribable. Of course there is an urgent, pressing need for shelter given the extensive destruction of housing by the US-Zionist aggression, and warm clothing as winter sets in. But in terms of identifying and prioritising the exact specific needs, ll4gaza is not able to track this in detail.

The Sameer project & other community initiatives on the ground are able to assess this much better than us.

Our goal is to get donations to these appeals evenly distributed, regardless of their status so that families in Gaza can decide for themselves how to allocate their fund. It’s not too far-fetched to look at it as trying to achieve a universal basic income for the families in Gaza.

 

 

*Related: Trump’s 20 point plan to end the war in Gaza is the usual Israeli ultimatum: surrender or be murdered

 

*Full reply to my question “What is lifeline4Gaza? How and when did it form?”

It formed by destiny :). Ainiladra, like many others on twitter (& instagram & elsewhere) now working on maintaining it, was quoting and promoting dozens of fundraisers. And she was struggling to keep up with the many requests and so had decided to prioritize promoting those who were receiving very few donations. She noticed the name Gijsbert among the donors on many of the appeals she was circulating and looked it up on twitter and found bug0xr (his account) and privately messaged him to thank him for his generosity. He said he noticed what she was doing (trying to prioritize neglected appeals) and had a simple software solution for it if she was interested.

[Bugx0r had been following Ainiladra on X for a while already; sometimes donating to the most urgent appeals she was promoting & also interacting with some of her posts. After a while, he noticed how overwhelmed she became with managing the QT requests she got – wanting to prioritize the most neglected ones; but with so many of them sent to her, it came to him this was going to be an uphill battle where she might need all the help possible – for the families in Gaza & for herself too.

He then came up with a plan to build a software solution where appeals could be manually entered & where the software platform would take care of updating the donations made to them (in real time, but sequentially). An algorithm was implemented to sort the appeals in real time, based on how little & how long ago each appeal had gotten donations, with the most neglected ones being listed at the top.

Designing, concepting & realizing the first version of this software took about a week or two. He didn’t want to let her know about it before a first version actually existed; though, shortly before that first (very much work-in-progress) version was ready, she contacted him herself, thanking him for his donations & asking if he was interested in helping organize/manage fundraiser campaigns, because there were so many families still needing one & too few people willing or able to manage these campaigns. Because of reasons – which will not be specified here – he had to turn down her ask; but took the opportunity to let her know what he was working on – even though no working prototype was ready yet :)]

She didn’t think much of it but then a week or so later (this was in July 2025), he came back with a simple website where he had entered a couple of dozen appeals to test it. She started entering all the appeals she had been circulating but then she saw how useful it was, she asked bug0xr if he would like to make it a public site. And he agreed. So she kept entering appeals and got to maybe a few hundred and invited others who were circulating appeals to join a chat on twitter to coordinate building up the site further. Over the last few months, dozens of volunteers who not only promote appeals, but also organize several themselves, have been working to build up and promote the site. There is also a team of volunteer translators and designers of flyers. There is a group with their own chat on instagram. Dozens of beneficiaries of funding appeals listed from Gaza have also been among those consulted and several have been included in the chats. There are now over 1900 appeals listed and more every day. There is an on-site submission form too (also in Arabic, among several other languages) so anyone from Gaza or their supporters can apply. The work of volunteers in really driving the site’s development cannot be understated. They are coming up with such creative ideas to promote it (like the Advent Calendar for Christmas and creating postcards using artwork from people in Gaza). There have been many challenges because twitter keeps suspending many Gaza-based accounts, whose entries need constant updating as a result. They also suspended ll4gaza’s original account and bug0xr’s! And yet, the project keeps moving forward. To be there for people in Gaza, Palestine, because they need support.