How can Pakistani’s help the Palestinian movement?

As the genocide of Palestinians goes on with the death toll currently reported to be 12,493 people in Gaza as per Al-Jazeera. Many of us Pakistanis are feeling a sense of helplessness as videos are emerging showing children killed, shell-shocked or traumatised by the violence they witnessed, asking how they can continue to support the fight for a free Palestine. Here are the several ways you can support the Palestinian cause:

Donate:

We are listing down several organisations that are taking donations from Pakistan to help provide humanitarian relief to Palestinians.

Doctors Without Borders

This is an organisation that is currently working to provide medical relief and aid to countless injured civilians in Gaza. Pakistani’s can visit their website and provide donations through Mastercard or Visa.

Al Khidmat Foundation:

This organisation is working on the ground to provide humanitarian assistance to the wounded in Gaza. Click on their website to send a donation.

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:

The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund is actively working in Gaza to provide medical surgery, mental health programs and also to sponsor children who have become orphans as a result of the war. You can visit their website to find out details on how to donate.

Read more books about the Palestinian liberation movement and from Palestinians authors

Here are some books you can look up on to learn more about the origins of apartheid in Palestine, and how did the Nakba begin. These books are currently available at The Last Word or you can download them as pdf’s online.

Children Of The Stone: the power of music in a hard land by Sandy Tolan

Chronicles the story of Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a child from Palestinian refugee camps who rose to become a music student and founded a music school with the help of musicians around the world.

The Palestine Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating The Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory by Nur Masalha.

This book debunks some of the narratives presented by Israelis in an attempt to suppress the resistance, by directly narrating history from Palestinians.

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the foundations of a movement by Angela Davis

This book is a collection of essays, interviews and speeches written by activist and scholar Angela Davis who draws the comparison between state violence and oppression throughout the world such as Ferguson and the Palestine struggle.

Watch movies and documentaries made by Palestinians

Five Broken Cameras: A documentary made by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi on the protests led by Palestinian farmers in Bil’in, a West Bank village which was encroached by the Israeli West Bank barrier. Available on Netflix.

Chilldren Of Shatila (1998): A documentary that focuses on the lives of two Palestinian children growing up Beirut’s Palestinian Shatila refugee camp. Available on Netflix.

Gaza (2019): A documentary that looks in to the lives of Gazan citizens and their everyday routine. Available to stream online.

Follow Palestinian influencers on Instagram and TikTok

Subhi who goes by sbeih.jpeg on Instagram provides regular updates on the on-ground situation in Gaza.

Mohammad Elkurd is a Palestinian poet whose Instagram account mohammadelkurd provides updates on the situation in Gaza.

Plestia Alaqad is a journalist who gives regular updates on Gaza on her TikTok and Instagram account byplestia

Boycott brands that are providing donations to Israel

Here is an official list of brands listed by the Palestinian BDS Movement a group of activists currently leading the call for the end of genocide in Gaza.

Targeting complicit companies can help stop Israel’s #GazaGenocide.#BDS calls for a boycott of Israeli and international companies that are complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza, apartheid and other violations of Palestinian human rights.#BoycottIsraeliApartheid pic.twitter.com/TqI8Z1fl3E

— BDS movement (@BDSmovement) October 18, 2023