Source: Al Jazeera:
Charity leaders and pro Palestinianactivists in Gaza have condemned the crowdfunding website for blocking withdrawals of funds raised by Palestine-related pages – and have accused Go Fund Me bosses of having “blood on their hands”.
Despite questions from Al Jazeera, the company has not revealed the amount of money raised on its platform for Gaza that has been frozen in its system or has been refunded to donors. but it has told Al Jazeera that more than $300m has been raised on the platform for both Palestinians and Israelis since Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel in 2023 and the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza.
Hala Sabbah, founder of mutual aid group The Sameer Project, said that in September, more than $250,000 of donations to her organisation was refunded. The London-based activist described the closure of her GoFundMe page as a “disaster” for efforts to provide emergency aid to people suffering from lack of food, shelter and medicines on the enclave. The Sameer Project is a much more professional and well organised effort than the ridiculous stunt staged by 'Saint; Greta Thunberg a few weeks ago.
The Sameer Project runs a camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir el-Balah, providing healthcare and essentials to its residents, using money that, until now, had been raised through GoFundMe, totalling more than $1m. It also funds food, water, shelter and clothing for people across Gaza.
Sabbah said she was “treated like scum” by GoFundMe, despite her group’s pages having raised about $44,000 for it in transaction fees. “Our GoFundMe page had daily updates with complete cost breakdowns of every single initiative we did – everything was well-documented, with receipts,” she said.
GoFundMe now notifies page organisers that there will be a “review” process after they launch fundraisers related to Palestine or “the conflict in the Middle East”, as it is phrased by the company’s compliance team in emails seen by Al Jazeera. The company claims this is part of its “standard verification process”, but critics say it appears to target Gaza-related pages with restrictions and sanctions rather than those for other causes, such as Israel or Ukraine.
GoFundMe has so far failed to respond when requested to disclose figures showing how many Israel or Ukraine fundraisers have been closed compared with those for Gaza.
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