Mohammed R. Mhawish
@mohamhawish.bsky.social
Writer and journalist from Gaza City.
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“The next phase of Gaza’s life must be shaped by those who have lived through its collapse.” @mohamhawish.bsky.social writes about Donald Trump’s peace plan and the future of Palestine.
Gaza’s Broken Politics
Every movement that claimed to speak for Palestinians has failed them. The next chapter must belong to those who have endured the devastation.
www.newyorker.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
“The next phase of Gaza’s life must be shaped by those who have lived through its collapse.” @mohamhawish.bsky.social writes about Donald Trump’s peace plan and the future of Palestine.
Latest: "Rebuilding a life in exile feels like trying to reassemble a shattered mosaic, the pieces scattered across distances that can’t be bridged. I’ve learned how to live in two places at once and belong fully to neither."
The War We Carry
For Palestinians forced out of Gaza, survival means bearing a second trauma: the endless dislocation of exile.
www.mohammedmhawish.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Latest: "Rebuilding a life in exile feels like trying to reassemble a shattered mosaic, the pieces scattered across distances that can’t be bridged. I’ve learned how to live in two places at once and belong fully to neither."
I recently helped co-produce a film on Gaza called Severed, a short documentary that follows the story of Mohamad Saleh, an eighteen-year-old amputee from Gaza.
Severed, a Gaza film I co-produced, is about one boy — and all of us
Through the story of a boy who lost everything, we tell the truth about a people who continue to live.
open.substack.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I recently helped co-produce a film on Gaza called Severed, a short documentary that follows the story of Mohamad Saleh, an eighteen-year-old amputee from Gaza.
I wrote for The New Yorker about Gaza’s mental health crisis, and spoke with therapists and psychologists still trying to help others through relentless trauma, while they themselves are displaced, grieving, and surviving day by day. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma
In Gaza, where displaced children play games called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.
www.newyorker.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I wrote for The New Yorker about Gaza’s mental health crisis, and spoke with therapists and psychologists still trying to help others through relentless trauma, while they themselves are displaced, grieving, and surviving day by day. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The world will only let us live if we are dying beautifully, if our corpses can teach something, if our pain can be folded into their politics. Our lives are useful to them only when they are ending.
We don't have to be dead for your movements to be alive
I’ve lost more than words can hold and I refuse to let the world dress that up as strength.
www.mohammedmhawish.com
June 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The world will only let us live if we are dying beautifully, if our corpses can teach something, if our pain can be folded into their politics. Our lives are useful to them only when they are ending.
Every day I watch death arrive in numbers, twenty bodies before breakfast, fifty more by noon, a hundred before the sky darkens, and somehow, the count resets and begins again the next morning like it’s routine now.
Latest post now live:
Latest post now live:
We don't have to be dead for your movements to be alive
I’ve lost more than words can hold and I refuse to let the world dress that up as strength.
mohamhawish.substack.com
June 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Every day I watch death arrive in numbers, twenty bodies before breakfast, fifty more by noon, a hundred before the sky darkens, and somehow, the count resets and begins again the next morning like it’s routine now.
Latest post now live:
Latest post now live:
For parents like me, who have lived this war with our children, fled bombings, rationed food، and buried friends and relatives, Ms. Rachel's voice has felt like a crack of light breaking through an otherwise impenetrable silence.
My toddler watched Ms. Rachel in the rubble of our Gaza home. She just talked to me — and him
On why Ms. Rachel’s stand for the children in Gaza gave Palestinian parents like me hope.
www.mohammedmhawish.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
For parents like me, who have lived this war with our children, fled bombings, rationed food، and buried friends and relatives, Ms. Rachel's voice has felt like a crack of light breaking through an otherwise impenetrable silence.
I didn’t expect my 3-year-old son to find comfort in a YouTube screen while we were surviving a war. But during the long, hunger-filled days of displacement in Gaza, with bombs overhead and no clean water in our mouths, he would whisper her name like a lifeline: “Ms. Rachel.”
My toddler watched Ms. Rachel in the rubble of our Gaza home. She just talked to me — and him
On why Ms. Rachel’s stand for the children in Gaza gave Palestinian parents like me hope.
www.mohammedmhawish.com
June 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I didn’t expect my 3-year-old son to find comfort in a YouTube screen while we were surviving a war. But during the long, hunger-filled days of displacement in Gaza, with bombs overhead and no clean water in our mouths, he would whisper her name like a lifeline: “Ms. Rachel.”
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The icon @mohamhawish.bsky.social is on THIS AMERICAN FREAKING LIFE this week, hosting a segment about starvation in Gaza that is brilliant and humane and filled with love. Listen listen listen: www.thisamericanlife.org/861/group-ch...
Week Eleven - This American Life
Mohammed Mhawish, a reporter who left Gaza a year ago with his family, talks to a young woman in Gaza about how she manages her hunger. Israel blockaded all food from Gaza for more than two month...
www.thisamericanlife.org
June 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The icon @mohamhawish.bsky.social is on THIS AMERICAN FREAKING LIFE this week, hosting a segment about starvation in Gaza that is brilliant and humane and filled with love. Listen listen listen: www.thisamericanlife.org/861/group-ch...
This week on @ThisAmerLife: I reported on Gaza’s severe food shortages and what it means to live through starvation.
Features my own experience and voices from those surviving it now.
Features my own experience and voices from those surviving it now.
Week Eleven - This American Life
Mohammed Mhawish, a reporter who left Gaza a year ago with his family, talks to a young woman in Gaza about how she manages her hunger. Israel blockaded all food from Gaza for more than two month...
www.thisamericanlife.org
June 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This week on @ThisAmerLife: I reported on Gaza’s severe food shortages and what it means to live through starvation.
Features my own experience and voices from those surviving it now.
Features my own experience and voices from those surviving it now.
Her name was Sameera and she was sixty-two. Her husband was too sick to walk and she couldn’t carry him. “If we leave, we die on the road. If we stay, we die here,” she said. “At least here I know the ground. I know which walls will fall on me.”
Some of us are tired of surviving
For many in Gaza, death isn't always the worst outcome.
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May 31, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Her name was Sameera and she was sixty-two. Her husband was too sick to walk and she couldn’t carry him. “If we leave, we die on the road. If we stay, we die here,” she said. “At least here I know the ground. I know which walls will fall on me.”
I don’t write this from a place of survivor’s pride but survivor’s shame. While I am alive and safe, my colleagues are not only risking their lives; they are doing so under conditions that defy imagination. And it leaves me asking: What does freedom of the press mean when it is met with a missile?
When reporters become reported
In Gaza, the journalist and the civilian are often one and the same — both targets, both testimonies.
www.mohammedmhawish.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I don’t write this from a place of survivor’s pride but survivor’s shame. While I am alive and safe, my colleagues are not only risking their lives; they are doing so under conditions that defy imagination. And it leaves me asking: What does freedom of the press mean when it is met with a missile?
A year ago, I was living the same nightmare that 2.2 million people in Gaza are currently living: constant exhaustion, dehydration, rapid weight loss.
Just wrote on what it feels like to be starving — and slowly being deprived of the necessities to survive.
Just wrote on what it feels like to be starving — and slowly being deprived of the necessities to survive.
What It Feels Like to Starve
What we are witnessing now in Gaza is not a famine of nature. It is famine as a weapon of mass destruction.
open.substack.com
May 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
A year ago, I was living the same nightmare that 2.2 million people in Gaza are currently living: constant exhaustion, dehydration, rapid weight loss.
Just wrote on what it feels like to be starving — and slowly being deprived of the necessities to survive.
Just wrote on what it feels like to be starving — and slowly being deprived of the necessities to survive.
Most of the stories that brought me here were written in darkness — literal and figurative — without power, protection, and barely enough to survive. This honor is for those who kept writing anyway.
I won an Izzy Award. I accept it in the name of Gaza’s journalists
Most of the stories that brought me here were written in darkness — literal and figurative — without power, protection, and barely enough to survive. This honor is for those who kept writing anyway.
www.mohammedmhawish.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Most of the stories that brought me here were written in darkness — literal and figurative — without power, protection, and barely enough to survive. This honor is for those who kept writing anyway.
Traumatized and weary, journalists in Gaza file stories between airstrikes, capturing what remains of lives and landscapes before they, too, are erased.
The unbearable task of reporting on Gaza while my colleagues get killed around me
Traumatized and weary, journalists in Gaza file stories between airstrikes, capturing what remains of lives and landscapes before they, too, are erased.
www.mohammedmhawish.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Traumatized and weary, journalists in Gaza file stories between airstrikes, capturing what remains of lives and landscapes before they, too, are erased.
Just wrote a little something here...
I wish she could hear me right now
I tried to hold on to you, to keep you from slipping away, but all I have left are memories.
www.mohammedmhawish.com
March 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Just wrote a little something here...
“I found her ring in the rubble, blackened, but I could still see our names engraved inside. I held it so tight it cut my palm. I didn’t feel it. All I felt was her absence.”
I talked with twenty people in Gaza after the ceasefire, who shared raw, heart-wrenching stories of grief, loss, and hope.
I talked with twenty people in Gaza after the ceasefire, who shared raw, heart-wrenching stories of grief, loss, and hope.
Snapshots: I spoke with 20 people in Gaza after the ceasefire. My heart broke 20 times
In the aftermath of war, Gaza's people are picking up the pieces—of their homes, their families, and their lives. These 20 snapshots show what survival looks like and what it costs.
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February 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
“I found her ring in the rubble, blackened, but I could still see our names engraved inside. I held it so tight it cut my palm. I didn’t feel it. All I felt was her absence.”
I talked with twenty people in Gaza after the ceasefire, who shared raw, heart-wrenching stories of grief, loss, and hope.
I talked with twenty people in Gaza after the ceasefire, who shared raw, heart-wrenching stories of grief, loss, and hope.
I can’t describe this storm of emotions—joy, tears, scenes of families reuniting, finally returning home. For every Palestinian, for Gaza, this moment is just breathtaking.🕊️❤️
January 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I can’t describe this storm of emotions—joy, tears, scenes of families reuniting, finally returning home. For every Palestinian, for Gaza, this moment is just breathtaking.🕊️❤️
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NEW: As a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Gaza takes hold, Palestinian father and journalist @mohamhawish.bsky.social reflects on survival amid unimaginable loss and the uncertainty around returning home. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/re...
Reflections on the Ceasefire in Gaza
A Palestinian father and journalist writes from exile on what the pause in fighting means, and the damage it cannot undo
newlinesmag.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
NEW: As a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Gaza takes hold, Palestinian father and journalist @mohamhawish.bsky.social reflects on survival amid unimaginable loss and the uncertainty around returning home. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/re...
Reposted by Mohammed R. Mhawish
As a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Gaza takes hold, my friend @mohamhawish.bsky.social reflects for @newlinesmag.bsky.social on survival amid unimaginable loss and the uncertainty around returning home. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/re...
Reflections on the Ceasefire in Gaza
A Palestinian father and journalist writes from exile on what the pause in fighting means, and the damage it cannot undo
newlinesmag.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
As a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Gaza takes hold, my friend @mohamhawish.bsky.social reflects for @newlinesmag.bsky.social on survival amid unimaginable loss and the uncertainty around returning home. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/re...
Is it a dream? Are we dreaming? Is it all over—counting the dead, uncovering scattered bodies of children, reporting on our own homes and families getting bombed, surviving displacement and starvation at once? Is it all over now?
January 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Is it a dream? Are we dreaming? Is it all over—counting the dead, uncovering scattered bodies of children, reporting on our own homes and families getting bombed, surviving displacement and starvation at once? Is it all over now?
🚨 BREAKING: Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister confirms the Gaza ceasefire agreement will take effect on Sunday, January 19.
January 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister confirms the Gaza ceasefire agreement will take effect on Sunday, January 19.
I am in tears. I am literally crying. For months I've dreamt of this moment... Can't believe it's finally over.
January 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I am in tears. I am literally crying. For months I've dreamt of this moment... Can't believe it's finally over.
🚨🚨I can confirm Gaza ceasefire deal has just been accepted and signed by Israel and Hamas.
Announcement will be out soon.
Qatar, US, and Egypt will guarantee the phased plan implementation.
This is a developing story… further updates will follow.
Announcement will be out soon.
Qatar, US, and Egypt will guarantee the phased plan implementation.
This is a developing story… further updates will follow.
January 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🚨🚨I can confirm Gaza ceasefire deal has just been accepted and signed by Israel and Hamas.
Announcement will be out soon.
Qatar, US, and Egypt will guarantee the phased plan implementation.
This is a developing story… further updates will follow.
Announcement will be out soon.
Qatar, US, and Egypt will guarantee the phased plan implementation.
This is a developing story… further updates will follow.