Mohammed R. Mhawish
@mohamhawish.bsky.social
Writer and journalist from Gaza City.
For the past several months, I’ve talked to US officials and political and legal experts to understand the hierarchy of power within the Board of Peace, and what its plans mean for Gaza and the Palestinians. Read now in @nymag.com: nymag.com/intelligence...
The Plot to Eliminate Gaza
What Trump’s Board of Peace really means for the future of Palestine.
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Hind Rajab deserved a film that knew her. I reviewed "The Voice of Hind Rajab", the thriller that made Palestinians the agents of their own death. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/the-voice-...
Standing Ovations for Palestinian Pain
On “The Voice of Hind Rajab” and the limits of Western cinema
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Here is @mohamhawish.bsky.social with a provocative and thoughtful critique of "The Voice of Hind Rajab" www.thekeymagazine.com/p/the-voice-...
Standing Ovations for Palestinian Pain
On “The Voice of Hind Rajab” and the limits of Western cinema
thekeymagazine.com
i gave her the floor. she had always been given the floor last. she had things to say. she spoke and she was not entirely kind and I loved her more for it - read full poem here: www.mohammedmhawish.com/p/i-also-gri...
New in @thenation: The widening Iran war may redraw the Middle East—but Gaza is the place paying the price first, beginning with deeper isolation and an even more dangerous future. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The Iran War Is a Disaster for Gaza
How the crisis leaves Gaza’s 2 million people more friendless, isolated, and vulnerable than ever before.
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Must-read today in @thenation.com: the peerless @mohamhawish.bsky.social on why the Iran war is a disaster for the people of Gaza. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The Iran War Is a Disaster for Gaza
How the crisis leaves Gaza’s 2 million people more friendless, isolated, and vulnerable than ever before.
thenation.com
Tried to put some words to some thoughts. Appreciate the read. www.mohammedmhawish.com/p/the-body-k...
The Body Keeps Its Own Scripture
A poem
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@thenation.com has been a critical voice in the media, amplifying Palestinian voices over the years. Today, the magazine turns its coverage for a full day on Gaza an by writers from Gaza only. Honored to have contributed to this important work! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A Ceasefire in Name Only
The language of ceasefire has been repurposed in Gaza: It no longer describes a pause in violence but rather a mechanism for managing it.
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Honored to have been featured in The Guardian US with Muslim creatives and intellectuals helping usher in a new era for New York City. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Since the ceasefire was called, more than 420 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli gunfire. @mohamhawish.bsky.social dissects the language that has surrounded this period of reconstruction.
A Ceasefire in Name Only
The language of ceasefire has been repurposed in Gaza: It no longer describes a pause in violence but rather a mechanism for managing it.
thenation.com
Here's just a few of the pieces in our "Day for Gaza" package. We have @mohamhawish.bsky.social on the hollowness of the so-called ceasefire in Gaza: "What do you call a ceasefire agreement under which people keep dying?" www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A Ceasefire in Name Only
The language of ceasefire has been repurposed in Gaza: It no longer describes a pause in violence but rather a mechanism for managing it.
thenation.com
Joined Al Jazeera’s The Take to discuss the latest developments in Gaza, why the peace plan has stalled, and what's coming next. Tune in for a listen here - or wherever you get your podcasts! omny.fm/shows/the-ta...
‘Peace’ on paper, but catastrophe continues on the ground in Gaza - The Take
In the three months since the US unveiled a 20-point Gaza plan, more than 400 Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured in near-daily Israeli attacks. Gaza has been fragmented, with Israel c...
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The Gaza peace plan has divided the Strip into color-coded zones that determine where Palestinians can live and rebuild, and half of Gaza is off-limits indefinitely. I reported on the stalled ceasefire and why phase two might never materialize. @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
A Reckoning for the Stalled Gaza Peace Plan
A meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump may determine whether the agreement advances—or hardens into a permanent order.
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President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu are meeting as phase two of the Gaza ceasefire fails to materialize. My new story in @newyorker.com examines what went wrong—and how the plan stalled without resolving who governs Gaza, or who consents. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
A Reckoning for the Stalled Gaza Peace Plan
A meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump may determine whether the agreement advances—or hardens into a permanent order.
newyorker.com
“It is reasonable to imagine that much of the information that the Israelis gathered over the past two years will be a new baseline for an expanded archive, a standing watch list.” @mohamhawish.bsky.social reports on life in Gaza under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
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“Life in Gaza for the past two years has been a process of losing everything visible — our families, homes, streets,” @mohamhawish.bsky.social writes. It also means losing what cannot be seen: “the ability to speak without fear of being monitored by a machine.”
Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
nymag.com
@mohamhawish.bsky.social speaks to more than a dozen people living in Gaza under a regime of ceaseless surveillance. One man now avoids calling his brother and has described the collapse of connection itself in his life.
Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
nymag.com
Since October 7, the Israeli army has generated kill lists using AI, monitored the social-media accounts of Palestinians, and stored the audio of their phone calls. @mohamhawish.bsky.social reports on how technology has reshaped the daily lives of Gazans.
Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
nymag.com
I spent sixteen months reporting this story. It follows how surveillance tech is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside it. Reported in partnership with @justvision.org's Palestine Reporting Lab and published in @nymag.com
Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
nymag.com
"This is the dystopian consequence of surveillance technology, supplied in part by American companies, being placed into the hands of authorities who have virtually unlimited control over a captive population they have openly villainized." @mohamhawish.bsky.social writes at @nymag.com >>
Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
nymag.com
"This is the dystopian consequence of technology, supplied in part by American companies, being placed into the hands of authorities who have virtually unlimited control over a captive population they have openly villainized." By @mohamhawish.bsky.social in @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...
Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
nymag.com
“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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
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.
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