FAQ (En)

We're asking for your support to help our friend and his family survive the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Ibrahim is responsible for supporting 26 extended family members, including elders, children, a disabled adult, and a newborn baby . We are a group of friends in Berlin (and som other territories) doing our best to help our friend shoulder this immense responsibility. Our fundraising efforts are currently the family's only source of income. Your donation and your help in spreading this campaign allows us to keep putting food on the table, but if you'd like to be more involved, please reach out! We can't do this ongoing work without our community, and we would love to invite you to be a part of it.

We are currently running a crowdfunding campaign to help Ibrahim set up a local grocery shop. You can find out more via the link Crowdfunding

Updated March 19/2026

Who does my donation support? 

Your money is going to the family of Ibrahim, a 26 year old tourism manager originally from Gaza city, currently displaced with his family in Dier al Balah. Ibrahim recently got married this summer and became father. In addition to his new family, Ibrahim is responsible for supporting his extended family of 26 people, including elders, children, and a disabled adult. These fundraising efforts are the family's sole source of income to cover food, rent, medicine, and everything else. Our fundraising group is entirely volunteer and we send 100% of your donation to Ibrahim. We are in daily communication with him to try our best to meet the family's needs.

What can I do to help? 

We are a small group of precariously employed and low income people, and we are not able to cover the financial costs of this work alone. We appreciate every offer of support! Talk to your people about this campaign. Make concrete requests of your friends and family. Everyone who contributes in even the smallest way to this work helps us keep going, and every donor that you can help us recruit - especially if you can sign folks up for recurring donations* - helps us immensely. We regularly organize different types of fundraising events that you can support with whatever your availability allows. Sign up to the donor updates Telegram Channel, where we will advertise those events, and encourage people to come, even if you can't make it yourself. :) 

*this is an option on our Chuffed Euro account, ask if you need help setting it up 

How much do you need to raise?

As you probably have heard, the price of goods in Gaza has increased to unimaginable levels over the last two years. Like the majority of the population, Ibrahim's family has no source of income to offset these costs, and no family outside of Gaza to subsidize them. Therefore, they rely entirely on this fundraising group for all their daily needs. Currently, to feed 27 people an extremely basic diet costs between 100 and €150/day. In addition to around €1000 for monthly rent, this means we need to raise at least €5000/month. 

Why are you still asking for donations when on the Chuffed acount it shows that you have surpassed the goal already?

How does the money get to Gaza?

We are sending all donations directly to Ibrahim via crypto transfer (USDC). We convert the donations to USDC and transfer them to Ibrahim's crypto wallet. He then goes to a trading desk or merchant near him who will buy cryptocurrency and exchanges it for cash. For this service, the merchant charges a 25% commission - this rate fluctuates and has gone as high as 50% over the last two years. 

The advantage of using crypto is that we can transfer money immediately, and there are more points of access to make the exchange rather than searching for an operating bank branch. Bank transfers can come with additional risks to access the funds, take a very long time, and also have the same 25% commission rate.

I heard crypto is bad/I disagree ideologically with using crypto. 

We are using cryptocurrency as a tool to circumvent more dangerous and slower methods of money transfer. Using this method of transfer allows us to avoid the risk of governments or companies freezing bank accounts (there have been many issues sending money to Gaza from German bank accounts, for example). Sending money this way was a request from Ibrahim. We trust those bearing the heaviest weight of this genocide to know what is best for them.

Detailed info in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px9ohL06jrc

I don't like that idea that so much of my donation is going towards commission fees. Isn't there a better alternative?

Neither do we, and we wish that there were more options. The alternative is an end to the siege and and end to the occupation. On our end, we have tried to develop a system that saves as much on transaction fees as possible, but we cannot change the 20% commission rate being charged in Gaza - this is a fixed commission when withdrawing cash, regardless of the method of money transfer. As Ibrahim writes, everyone must pay this, or die of hunger. 

I heard aid is entering the Gaza strip again since the ceasefire. Why do people have to buy food at all, can't they get humanitarian aid for free now? 

Since the so-called 'ceasefire' went into effect on October 10, 2025, the occupation has allowed some limited aid to enter Gaza again. This aid is currently many times less than what is required to feed the population, and also much less than the terms set out by the ceasefire agreement. According to UN experts, "The volume of aid trucks entering Gaza has never reached the agreed target of 600 per day and has frequently fallen below half that number".  It is also important to remember that this trickle of aid follows a complete blockade of all goods which was in effect for the previous eight months. This means the food aid available is insufficient to cover everyone's needs, leaving many hungry. There are some community food kitchens operating, but there is not nearly enough to meet the extreme need.

Access to food also varies greatly depending on where exactly you are in Gaza. In Deir al Balah, there is food available to buy and prices have come down in comparison to previous months, but it remains much more expensive than usual and the basics are still out of reach for many Gazans. If we are unable to raise enough money for Ibrahim's family's daily food needs, they would have to rely on community food kitchens which are vastly under-resourced. The best option is still to donate directly to families like Ibrahim's, who can then buy their own groceries according to their needs. 

People are really paying rent during a genocide? 

Yes. While many are living in tents, Ibrahim's family is lucky to still have access to an apartment in Dier al Balah, which they rent from a landlord. The apartment is located in one of the evacuation red zones, but the family feels it is still safer than moving to tents in one of the so-called "safe zones", which are also constantly under bombardment by the occupation. They have a relatively good relationship with the landlord, who is renting them the apartment at below market rate. The landlord is also Gazan and uses this income to support his family as well.   

Wouldn't it be better to donate to large organizations rather than individual families? 

We would like to challenge those giving to question why it is they might feel more comfortable donating to large organizations with name recognition, without intimate knowledge of how that money is actually spent, or personal involvement beyond a one time transaction. 

While there are some reputable and Gazan lead initiatives operating on the ground, we believe it is most important to put money directly into the hands of those in Gaza struggling to survive this genocide, as they are the ones who know their needs the best. In this way you can be certain that the highest percentage of your donation possible goes directly to keeping people alive, not to staff salaries, infrastructure overheads, government lobbying or inflated marketing campaigns.

When we are able to send more funds than the amount needed to meet the daily needs of Ibrahim's immediate family group, Ibrahim has been arranging aid distribution actions for his neighbours who are most in need. Over the summer, he has been able to deliver tents, food, water, milk and diapers where they are most needed. He is very passionate about being able to do this as often as possible, and we would love to be able to help him continue that work. Unfortunately, since the 'ceasefire', there has been a drastic reduction in donations and we have struggled to provide him the funds to make this possible. Your support is what allows this to happen. 

Is there somewhere I can verify this campaign for myself? Like an Instagram account or see videos of Ibrahim and his family?

Ibrahim has an Instagram page where he documents his aid distribution actions, @pulses_of_mercy. If you like, you are also welcome to join one of our two Telegram channels where Ibrahim shares updates and sometimes photos when he wants to. In general though, we would like to push back against the expectation that Gazans must share the intimate details of their lives and their suffering in order to be believeable and earn donations from a sympathetic audience. 

But then how do I know this isn't a scam?

Ibrahim is a personal contact of one of the members of our Berlin-based fundraising group. We are working to build a network of supporters for his family through our own local mutual aid networks and associated networks of trust which have existed for years prior. As such, this is not only a request for your donation, it is equally an invitation to be part of the larger work of building interconnected communities of support and solidarity. Come meet us and get involved.

Join the telegram channel for organizers: https://t.me/c/2296589862/1