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Are Gazan gofundme (and similar) profiles legit? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by theacharnian@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm all for supporting people in Gaza, but these smell very (cat)fishy.

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago

Planet Money did a really interesting episode on money in Gaza. Basically, bank branches don't really exist, and physical paper money is really hard to come by, so getting money into Gaza is really hard.

Any money you donate would need to get past various embargoes to get to a Palestinian bank, then be passed to a person who can't really access it.