Mohammed R. Mhawish

The Body Keeps Its Own Scripture A poem

Tried to put some words to some thoughts. Appreciate the read.

www.mohammedmhawish.com/p/the-body-k...

Thank you Rima!

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 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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

‘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...

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...

I Thought He Wanted to Say Hello A subway encounter with a stranger

The One Where I was an Idiot. www.mohammedmhawish.com/p/i-thought-...

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.

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...

Thank you, Rima!

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.

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...

Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.

“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.

Thank you for sharing, Ruth!

Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.

“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.

@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.

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.

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.

"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.

"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...

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.

“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.

The War We Carry For Palestinians forced out of Gaza, survival means bearing a second trauma: the endless dislocation of exile.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.”

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...

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...

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.