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On Tuesday, 8th July, we held a webinar that brought together powerful voices responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

We heard from Clean Shelter co-founders, Dr. Tom Kellner and Seba Abu-Daqa, who have been providing rapid, life-saving support to displaced communities since founding the initiative in January 2024. Their work delivers essential resources—tents, toilets, community shelters, and clean water—while navigating extreme operational challenges, including blockades and airstrikes.

We were also joined by Adi Ronen Argov, founder of The Daily File, a grassroots media project exposing the daily realities of life under Occupation — especially the tragic loss of children’s lives in Gaza. By collecting firsthand reports from Palestinian sources, The Daily File confronts the silence in mainstream Israeli media and urges recognition, responsibility, and change.

Elisheva Goldberg, Senior Director of Media & Policy at New Israel Fund US, framed how this work fits into NIF’s broader mission to uphold human rights, equality, and justice.

This rare opportunity to hear directly from the frontline of humanitarian aid in Gaza explored how we can all support dignity, safety, and human rights for those most at risk.

Clean Shelter’s Presentation

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Seba AbuDaqa

Born and raised in Gaza, Palestine, and based in Munich, Germany, Seba Abudaqa is a development professional and co-founder of Clean Shelter, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to fostering community resilience and addressing displacement challenges. With a deep connection to her roots, Seba’s work has spanned Gaza, the West Bank, and the broader MENA region, where she has consistently advocated for gender justice, equality, and social impact. Seba holds a Master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratisation. Her research focuses on women’s rights in Palestinian legislation. With over 15 years of experience, Seba has worked on strategic planning, program design, and resource mobilisation for leading organisations such as the Global Fund for Women, Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation, and the Norwegian Refugee Council. Her expertise lies in addressing systemic challenges faced by marginalised communities, particularly women and youth, through capacity building, grants management, and advocacy. Seba’s leadership at Clean Shelter and her extensive work across the MENA region highlight her unwavering commitment to creating inclusive, equitable, and sustainable communities in the face of adversity.

Tom Kellner

Dr. Tom Kellner is the co-founder of Clean Shelter, a non-profit organisation based in Germany that provides immediate relief to displaced communities in Gaza. Tom is an Israeli-born scholar specialising in contemporary Israeli literature, cultural studies, feminist theory, and postcolonial theory. She earned her Ph.D. from Ben-Gurion University, during which time she was a guest researcher at Freie Universität Berlin. She subsequently led a research project at the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL Berlin) and conducted her postdoctoral research at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Since 2023, she has been working as a research associate and research manager for the DFG Priority Program “Jewish Cultural Heritage”. In addition to her academic work, Tom is an accomplished translator of nonfiction between Hebrew and English, as well as an active cellist. Her multifaceted career reflects a dedication to fostering cross-cultural understanding through forms of critical thought, art and care that challenge objectification, instead fostering human dignity and mutual understanding.

Adi Ronen-Argov

Adi Argov is the Senior Chief Editor at The Daily File. A senior specialist clinical psychologist, she is also a facilitator of meditation and a mother and grandmother.  She says about her work on the project, ‘ I want to face reality as it is and tell it as it is.’

The Daily File is an independent voluntary project by Israeli citizens wishing to bring attention to the daily goings-on in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, and the interface of Palestinians and Israeli security and military forces. The project reports on violence against Palestinians, theft of property, and loss of children’s lives– particularly in Gaza. The statistics and stories are gathered from a number of Palestinian sources, including the Palestinian Health Ministry and independent journalists in Gaza.

Most of this information is not reported by Israeli media, and many Israeli civilians remain uninformed. The Daily File believes that knowledge is a vital step towards understanding and recognising the urgent necessity for a political solution. The organisation works in collaboration with the collective group ‘Looking the Occupation in the Eye’.