please help @suad if you can 💜

@raphaellakay Yes, unfortunately I am facing issues with withdrawing the funds, and there is a possibility that the donation link may be closed.
Thank you so much for your understanding and support.
I really hope that Gaza Verified will adopt PayPal as the donation method and cancel my GoFundMe link.

@suad This is really unfortunate GoFundMe is really targeting Palestinian accounts, this is annoying. I know there are already some families here using Paypal and it works – and your account is verified so it shouldn't be a problem if someone wants to make a donation to you.

@raphaellakay I prefer that no one donates through my GoFundMe link, because if donations are made there, I won’t be able to withdraw the funds, and therefore I won’t benefit from the donations.
I kindly ask @joynewacc and @aral to help me with this issue by canceling the donation option through my GoFundMe link and replacing it with my PayPal account so people can donate through PayPal instead.

@suad@mastodon.scot @raphaellakay@mastodon.world @joynewacc@mastodon.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al the old campaign link has now been removed.

The archive is conservative when it comes to data retention, so if a valid campaign link is removed it won't remove the campaign, and manual intervention is required.

In general we prefer that campaigns are either on GFM or Chuffed because that makes donations transparent. If you don't manage to raise enough, you're likely to appear at the top of the campaigns page and people will see it. But of course PayPal makes sense as a backup if you experience issues - it's just that there's no way of tracking the donations there because they are private.

Many Palestinian accounts have indeed experienced issues with their campaigns on GFM recently, but my advice is to try and go through their verification process if you can.

They also suspended for verification a campaign that I manage, and after some back-and-forth we got it unlocked again.

They are not specifically targeting pro-Gaza campaigns, but there are two other issues at play:

1. There have recently been investigations (and even arrests) in Europe because some fundraisers on GFM actually funnelled funds to Hamas. So GFM needs to be extremely cautious with compliance now if they don't want to lose their banking license.

2. Unfortunately, they didn't think this throughout, and they don't seem to have a proper verification process. So different agents that handle different cases may ask different things, or things that don't make sense at all (like a physical address in Gaza).

My advice is to try and be collaborative within reasonable boundaries because:

1. Funds of suspended campaigns are otherwise lost.

2. Attempts to open copies of the same campaign without satisfying their verification requirements may be interpreted as attempts to evade their verification process - which is a big red flag that may also impact the risk score of the recipient's bank account.

If you experience any issues, please feel free to add me in cc (fabio@manganiello.email) to your email thread with them.