Fedipourgaza on Nostr: With regard to corruption and fraud, I have seen cases involving large sums of money ...

With regard to corruption and fraud, I have seen cases involving large sums of money (fictitious group purchases of tents, for example). Paradoxically, there are fewer problems and risks with numerous small funds, as it is too much work for too little profit for the scammers.

MSF humanitarian workers themselves admit their powerlessness in the face of obstacles and, unofficially, think it is a great initiative to help families directly by slipping through the net.

We are well aware that we are on a public network that is monitored by both Israel and the US. I was discussing this with Aral Balkan (npub1p09…m5vl) Fabio Manganiello (npub1xw9…75ln) Joy (npub1nv8…za59) not long ago.

The information you see is mostly information found on their aid fund. We do not ask for this kind of information; they publish it voluntarily. There is also a whole section of non-public communication that goes through secure messaging services.

Regarding calling on lawyers and others:
- We are really just ordinary people who talk daily with others who are in need. We have our own lives, jobs, etc. We don't necessarily have the time or the means to engage in such cumbersome procedures (unless you want to help us :)
- My personal feeling about U..wa is that going through them would be very dangerous for the families facing Israel, who would consider them directly as "terrorists".

In short, with the planned total ban on humanitarian organisations, our way of helping, even if it is imperfect and not fair to all Palestinians (only families who have a telephone with internet access – with, however, the notable exception of Khaled's family, who distributed rice to the starving https://mas.to/@bilal_mo/115974386519949818 ), remains a way of not watching them die before our eyes without doing anything. And that is what matters most to us.

This form of collective, through direct private funding from families to families, also allows us to circumvent Yazan laws that crack down on associations that collect funds for Palestinians. We do not receive any money, we have no legal existence, and we will never ask for funding for our organisation.

We agree that in a more "normal" conflict, where humanitarian aid would not be so severely restricted and targeted, it would make more sense to give to these organisations (a humanitarian worker's yestimonial of this issue is available on website https://fedipourgaza.org/en/about/#testimonials). But what is happening in Gaza is unprecedented on this scale, and so is our response.