Mohammed R. Mhawish (@mohammrafik) 's Twitter Profile
Mohammed R. Mhawish

@mohammrafik

Award-winning Journalist & Writer, @TheNation & @MSNBC •
Words: @AJEnglish, @TheEconomist, @972Mag

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My profound gratitude to @TheNation for nominating me, and to my brilliant editors, @JackMirkinson and @LizzyRatner, whose belief, trust, and fierce support made this work possible.

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so so so so so proud of Mohammed for this extremely-deserved award and grateful to the Izzys for recognizing both the quality and importance of Mohammed's work!!!

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Food is being blocked. Water denied. And children are dying. I wrote for @TheNation about Gaza’s engineered starvation — and what it means to live, and watch others die, under siege.🔗 thenation.com/article/world/…

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This week on This American Life: 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. thisamericanlife.org/861/group-chat…

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.Mohammed R Mhawish 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: thisamericanlife.org/861/group-chat…

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.Mohammed R Mhawish, who left Gaza with his family a year ago, talks to a young woman in Gaza about how she manages her hunger. thisamericanlife.org/861/group-chat…

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"In Gaza, we don’t say we are hungry, because we know there is no food. We say the bread line starts at dawn." Mohammed R Mhawish mohammedmhawish.com/p/what-hunger-…

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My toddler watched Ms. Rachel in the rubble of our Gaza home. On Father's Day, I spoke to her about what it means to bring hope to children like him. This is what she told me. My latest in MSNBC: msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

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"The emotional labor of fatherhood, and parenthood, in Gaza is brutal. We’re asked to absorb our children’s fear, hide our own, and somehow carry on." Read Mohammed R Mhawish's poignant essay on the turmoil of parenting in Gaza and the light Ms. Rachel brings. msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

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🚨 BREAKING—Washington, D.C.: President Donald Trump urges “everyone to evacuate Tehran immediately.” A very serious development and a notable escalation, as airstrikes between Israel and Iran continue for the fifth consecutive day.

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🚨 BREAKING—White House: President Trump is cutting short his visit to the G7 summit in Canada and returning to Washington tonight amid escalating tensions between Israel and Iran. The White House says the decision comes as Trump prioritizes crisis management in the Middle East.

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🚨 BREAKING: U.S. President Donald Trump has requested an emergency National Security Council meeting, which he will chair upon his arrival at the White House tonight.

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🚨BREAKING: Barrages of Iranian missiles have struck multiple targets in Tel Aviv, following a series of Israeli airstrikes in Tehran. Rocket sirens have been sounding across multiple areas in Israel since earlier this evening.

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A reporter in Tehran tells me the scenes of people fleeing the city are "heartbreaking and horrifying." He says thousands of "scared and terrified" residents are in the streets, trying to evacuate after a sharp escalation in Israeli airstrikes on the city since nightfall.

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🚨 Amid a rapidly escalating situation between Israel and Iran, several people in Gaza have been killed following multiple Israeli air raids tonight. At around 3 a.m. local time now, the people are still unable to reach ambulances or rescue teams through the continued blackout.

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🚨 BREAKING: NYT reports President Donald Trump is considering whether to assist Israel in destroying Iran’s heavily fortified nuclear enrichment facility at Fordow, a site so deep underground that only American-made bunker-busting bombs can reach.

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🚨 BREAKING: Israel’s Channel 12 reports a malfunction in the air defense system led to a failure to issue early warnings to residents in central Tel Aviv, allowing Iranian missiles to strike and cause significant destruction.

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At least 88 people have been killed in Israeli shelling across Gaza since dawn, including 56 who were struck while waiting for aid trucks in the south, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

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🚨 BREAKING: Iran has launched an air strike targeting the U.S. Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. Nature and scale of the damage remain unclear; no immediate reports of casualties confirmed.