A Palestinian Journalist Escapes Death in Gaza

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. The war in Gaza has been, among many other humanitarian disasters, deadly for journalists. Foreign reporters have almost no access to Gaza, so nearly all the reporting on the war's impact comes from Palestinian journalists on the ground.

Israeli officials often accuse them of lying about what's happening or they even accuse them of being terrorists. A week ago, the IDF struck a tent where Al Jazeera journalists were working, killing seven people. One of them, Israel said, was a Hamas operative, which Al Jazeera denied. 200 members of the press have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. A young journalist named Mohamed Mawish was very nearly among them.

After surviving an Israeli strike, Mahouish left Gaza, but he still reports on what's happening there. He just wrote for the New Yorker about mental health workers who are treating a deeply traumatized population, while they themselves, of course, are suffering all the devastation of this long and terrible war. I spoke the other day with Mohamed Mawish. Tell me a little bit about your life on October 6th, 2023.

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