Palestinian author Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer Prize for commentary | Media News

The poet receives the prestigious prize for the trials of New Yorker ‘on physical and emotional butcher shop in Gaza’ in the middle of the war.

The Palestinian poet Mosab Abu toha, who has been the target of Pro-Israel groups in the United States for deportation, has won a Pulitzer Award for Comments.

Abu Toha received the prestigious prize on Monday for the essays published in the New Yorker “about physical and emotional butcher shop in Gaza that combine deep reports with the intimacy of memories to convey the Palestinian experience” of war.

“I just won a Pulitzer prize for comments,” Abu Toha wrote on social networks. “Bring hope. To be a story.”

The comment seems to be a tribute to his fellow Palestinian poet Refat Alaneer, he was killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza in December 2023. The final poem of Arenser was titled: “If I must do it, that it is a story.”

Abu Toha was arrested by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2023 before being released to Egypt and subsequently move to the United States.

“In the last year, I have lost many of the tangible parts of my memories: people and places and things that helped me remember,” Abu Toha wrote in one of his New York essays.

“I have fought to create good memories. In Gaza, each destroyed house becomes a kind of album, full of photos but of real people, the dead pressured among their pages.”

In recent months, right -wing groups in the US have asked to deport Abu Toha in the middle of a campaign by President Donald Trump through non -citizens to criticize Israel. The author canceled events in universities in recent months, citing fears for their safety.

I just won a Pulitzer award for comments.

Bring hope
Let it be a story pic.twitter.com/vp6rspy6vz

– Mosab Abu Toha (@MOSABUTOHA) May 5, 2025

The Palestinian poet told The Take Podcast of Al Jazeera in December that the feeling of inability to help people in Gaza has been “devastating.”

“Imagine that you are with your parents, with your brothers and their children in a school shelter in Gaza,” said Abu Toha. “He cannot protect anyone. He cannot provide any food, with water, with any medication. But now he is in the United States, the country that is financing the genocide. Therefore, it is heartbreaking.”

In other categories of Pulitzer, New York Times won prizes for explanatory reports, local reports, international coverage and last -minute news photography on Monday.

With the four awards, the New York -based newspaper received most of the 14 Pulitzer Journalism Contests this year.

The winners of the award, named for the Hungarian newspaper editor American Joseph Pulitzer, are selected by a Board of journalists and academics and announced at Columbia University annually.

The New York Times received the International Report Award for its coverage of the conflict in Sudan, surpassing Washington Post, which was a finalist in the category of its “documented Israeli atrocities” in Gaza, including research and magazines.

The post won the last minute news award for its coverage of Trump’s murder attempt during a campaign rally last year. The Reuters Tok news agency the research prize for a “boldly reported exhibition of lax regulation in the United States and abroad that makes fentanilo.”