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>
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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>
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For years, we have been fundraising for Palestinian families through my art work with communities like ArteVie in Fiorano Modenese, OvestLab in Modena, private events in Gombola, and Wolverine Farm in Fort Collins. Each of these communities opened its doors, its hearts, and its wallets to support Jamal Abu Al-Ata and Hamed Sbeata.<\/p>![\"cym5ophr9uurypmxu06wc7etnbp0reiysviazfift4mvxx7u.png.png?w=1140&project=zottiforyou-417622&v=2\"](\"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/cym5ophr9uurypmxu06wc7etnbp0reiysviazfift4mvxx7u.png.png?w=1140&project=zottiforyou-417622&v=2\")
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