{"id":57477,"title":"Resisting is art | Jamal Abu Al-Ata & Hamed Sbeata","description":"Jamal Abu Al-Ata & Hamed SbeataFor years, our support has been a private affair \u2013 personal fundraisers, direct aid to families, a quiet response to the human call to help. We acted simply because it was right. I want to introduce you to two people who have become central to our private fundraiser campaignJamal Abu Al-Ata & Hamed Sbeata","content":"

A special place in our hearts.<\/p>

For years, our support has been a private affair \u2013 personal fundraisers, direct aid to families, a quiet response to the human call to help. We acted simply because it was right.<\/p>

I want to introduce you to two people who have become central to our private fundraiser campaign: Jamal Abu Al-Ata, a young man providing essential aid and food through community service, and Hamed Sbeata, a young filmmaker documenting life during a genocide. We encourage you to follow their stories.<\/p>

I'm Antonia Zotti, one of the co-founders of Zotti for You.com<\/a> and the artist behind the collage series \"Resisting is Art.\" I have been creating and sharing it with the public as a tool for awareness and fundraising for Jamal and Hamed.<\/p>

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This page is dedicated to Jamal Abu Al-Ata<\/strong> and Hamed Sbeata<\/strong>.<\/p>

I've known Jamal and Hamed for about two years now. Jamal is still in Gaza, while Hamed managed to escape the genocide and now lives in the EU. When he first arrived, he couldn't believe how quiet it was \u2014 no constant drones, no airplanes, no bombing. He says what he misses most is his family.<\/p>

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This is Jamal<\/p>

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Jamal Abu Al-Ata<\/h2>

I've known since 2024<\/p>

He is a jung graduate in Marketing, Organizer and heart behind the Food Not Bombs chapter in del el bahere, Gaza\u2014a locally run project dedicated to feeding starving families.<\/p>

You can verify his chapter here: http:\/\/foodnotbombs.net\/info\/locations\/<\/a><\/p>

Jamal Abu Al-Ata and his family\u2014eight people in total\u2014have been displaced for over two and a half years. They live in a tent. They face famine, random bombing every single day. And yet, Jamal refuses to stop. He and his team distribute fresh meat, produce, hygiene items, warm medicine, and formula for newborns.<\/p>

In his own words:<\/strong><\/p>

\"The Food Not Bombs project serves displaced families in camps across Shuja'iyya, Daraj, Rimal, Jabalia, and Tal al-Hawa. My family of eight is among them. We live in a tent. Others are suffering too.<\/em><\/p>

Goods exist in the markets, but prices are insanely high. We cannot buy what people need without your support.<\/em><\/p>

There is an ongoing famine. No free aid enters through Rafah or Kerem Shalom. Families are in desperate need.<\/em><\/p>

The war has not ended. It has been over 2.5 YEARS. We still live in a tent, facing famine and violence every day. What is happening is beyond logic. We just want you to stand by us.\"<\/em><\/p>

Despite a broken hand, in a sling, in pain, awaiting surgery\u2014Jamal organized a bread distribution for 205 displaced families. He told me, \"I know that I felt pain when I did that. I cannot ignore my community.\"<\/em> Before this, he had already distributed 565 loaves. Now the total is 770\u2014each one a small act of dignity in the middle of a genocide. He said, \"The body may get tired or injured, but the will rooted in the service of our family does not know how to stop.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>

And this is Hamed. When he received the t\u2011shirt, he called me and said it had turned a tough day into a hopeful one.<\/em><\/p>

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Hamed Sbeata<\/h2>

I've known Hamed for about two years.<\/p>

He is a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist and filmmaker from Gaza. He has collaborated with international media, including TF1, to share the reality of life under siege. He came into my life through the same network of solidarity that connected me to Jamal\u2014artists, activists, and organizers across Italy and the US who refuse to look away.<\/p>

Hamed suffers from Alport syndrome, a genetic condition that destroyed his kidneys. In 2020, he received a life-saving kidney transplant. That gift of life hung by a thread when Gaza's healthcare system collapsed and his supply of daily immunosuppressant medication\u2014the drugs that prevent his body from rejecting his transplanted kidney\u2014was almost exhausted.<\/p>

He was on an evacuation list prepared by Reporters Without Borders, but the bureaucratic gates remained closed for a long time.<\/p>

I am relieved to share that Hamed has now been evacuated and is in the EU.<\/strong> He is safe. But he misses his family terribly.<\/p>

He is a young man who has already survived so much\u2014a transplant, a war, a genocide. He used his voice to tell the world what was happening in Gaza. Now he needs the world to use its voice for him.<\/p>

Find out how you can get a beautiful print of \u201cMowing the lawn,\u201d from the Resisting is art series, thank you. <\/em><\/strong><\/h2>

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