Mujahed Mofleh was released from Israeli detention in January 2026 after six months of imprisonment and went into a coma two days later. Seven months after being released, he will never be the same. (Photo: Social Media)

Mujahed Mofleh, one of Palestine’s finest editors, nearly died after leaving Israeli detention. When I visited him, he could barely move, yet wrote he had messages from prisoners he needed to deliver. That’s when I realized the prison never left him.

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Funeral of 1-year-old Siwar Abu Daraz and her mother, Diana Abu Daraz, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis, June 30, 2026. (Photo: Tariq Mohammad/APA Images)

I am a journalist from Gaza, and I have documented loss so relentlessly that I have wondered where all that grief goes. I now know it never disappears. It might feel gone, but then one story comes along and unlocks everything that came before it.