Hi, I'm Kati, a small business owner & jeweler in Chicago, IL. I am running this raffle for the benefit of my friend Jamal Abu Al-Ata and his community in Gaza. All funds collected go toward Jamal's efforts sustaining his mutual aid organization, Food, Not Bombs (he liked the name of Food Not Bombs here in the US & felt it fit his efforts), which is dedicated to cooking for and feeding starving, genocide-ravaged families in his camp.

Thank you so much to all who enter, and to all who graciously contributed goods & services to bring this into being.

In Jamal's own words:

The Food Not Bombs project and organization is a national and humanitarian project that serves dozens, even hundreds, of displaced families and provides shelter for poor families.

From the beginning, this project has contributed to helping many families and displaced persons who are in camps in my area: Shuja'iyya, Daraj, Rimal, Jabalia, and Tal al-Hawa. We are now displaced, my family and I, consisting of eight people, in a tent. Other families living in the camps are suffering greatly as well.

My work team and I are constantly carrying out various and qualitative work, including distributing basic foodstuffs according to what is available in the markets to struggling families and children. I try hard to put a smile on their faces when they buy what they need. It is true that there are goods, food supplies, healthy food, and personal hygiene products in the markets remaining, but the prices are very high, insanely high.

We cannot buy this for the displaced and needy people in the tents except through your help, support, and funding. There is now an ongoing famine crisis as the Israeli occupation deliberately impose hunger and famine on us. This is a policy of psychological warfare, and this is the reason for the indescribably high prices due to the great scarcity in providing it.

No free aid enters the displaced through the Rafah or Kerem Shalom crossings. Rather, its equivalent has been greatly cut off due to the closure of the crossing, the imposition of siege restrictions, and also the barbaric war. Families are in great need of humanitarian aid and all similar healthy food and eating

Remember, before you contribute with us, we have the right to live like you, so do not abandon us and always stay by our side, my friends. You are our only hope, and we trust in your humanity

Our mission is to serve my family, my community, and the displaced families in all areas of Gaza and provide them with urgent relief. United for Gaza, let us continue to transform compassion into real impact through your support and donations. This will help save our innocent lives.

No humanitarian aid has reached northern Gaza yet, and people are still desperate and starving.

Keep speaking out.

Keep demanding change at the systemic level.

Keep sending direct aid to Gaza.

Inspire us with your humanity, comrades.

Proceeds go directly to the Food Not Bombs organization, headed by Jamal from Gaza.

Where are the Arab and foreign governments?

Does anyone see this in the total and complete destruction in Gaza?

Every citizen in Gaza has the right to live a dignified and peaceful life.

Raffle for Food, Not Bombs Gaza (Jamal from Gaza)

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