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Former UFC welterweight champion Belal Muhammad posted a photo alongside children’s educator Ms. Rachel and tagged the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), framing the meet-up around helping Palestinian children through the nonprofit’s medical and humanitarian work.
Muhammad’s caption centered on keeping children out of political talking points, writing that “children shouldn’t be headlines,” and praising Ms. Rachel as someone focused on “saving children,” while also tagging PCRF directly in the post.
In his Instagram caption, Muhammad said he had a “great time” with Ms. Rachel and “@thepcrf,” adding that she “only cares about saving children” and that kids “deserve to live like children.” The message reads like a public signal that his advocacy is aligning with an established children’s aid group, rather than a one-off social post.
Why Ms. Rachel and Belal Muhammad are Working Together
PCRF publicly lists Ms. Rachel on its site, describing her as an early childhood development advocate and the creator of “Toddler Learning Videos,” with a YouTube audience of more than 16.5 million subscribers. PCRF also hosts a dedicated Ms. Rachel fundraising page on its donation platform, founded in 1991 to address the medical and humanitarian needs of Palestinian and Arab youth.
Why Belal Muhammad fits here
Muhammad is a high-profile combat sports figure who routinely uses social media for public-facing causes, and his post frames this specific collaboration in humanitarian terms focused on children. Pairing a UFC champion’s platform with a major children’s educator creates a cross-audience effect: sports fans who follow Muhammad and parents who follow Ms. Rachel are being pointed toward the same charity infrastructure.
What the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund is
PCRF states its mission is to provide “medical and humanitarian relief” to children throughout the Levant “regardless of their nationality or religion,” and it highlights providing access to medical care, mental health support, and essential supplies. PCRF also says it has received Charity Navigator’s 4-star rating for 12 straight years, which it cites as evidence of accountability and financial health.
On Ms. Rachel’s PCRF fundraising page, the organization describes its core work as identifying children who need specialized surgery that is not locally available, running volunteer medical missions, and arranging care abroad when necessary. In other words, this isn’t framed as general awareness, it’s tied to a long-running pipeline for treatment and aid that influencers can fund and publicize.
By September 2025, Save the Children, citing updated figures from the Gaza Government Media Office, reported that more than 20,000 Palestinian children had been killed in Gaza since October 2023, which it said equated to roughly 2 percent of Gaza’s child population and more than one child killed every hour on average over nearly 23 months of war. The same Save the Children release noted at least 42,011 children injured and at least 21,000 children left permanently disabled, with thousands more children missing or presumed under rubble.
