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A California inmate has donated hours’ worth of his salary to support relief efforts in Gaza, according to Los Angeles-based filmmaker Justin Mashouf, who is in direct contact with the inmate. The donation, worth $17.74, corresponds to what the inmate, who goes by the chosen name of “Hamza”, earned for 136 hours working as a porter and janitor in prison. His hourly wage was 13 cents, according to the paycheck posted by Mashouf. Mashouf said he had met Hamza in 2009 through a friend in Los Angeles’ Muslim community who did prison outreach to incarcerated Muslims. “At the time I was working on a…

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