Mohammed R Mhawish

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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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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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Gaza needs bread and breath. But when aid stops, funerals begin
The recent pledge of aid to Gaza is a cruel illusion, and amounts to nothing other than another layer of death and suffering.
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What hunger sounds like
An audio story about the noise hunger makes in Gaza and the silence around it
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May 2025

Some of us are tired of surviving
For many in Gaza, death isn't always the worst outcome.
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When reporters become reported
In Gaza, the journalist and the civilian are often one and the same — both targets, both testimonies.
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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.
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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…
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April 2025

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