The Latest Breaking News from Plestia Alaqad

In my homeland, I’m trapped by bombs. Outside, I’m trapped by identity. The world is shrinking for Gazans

Sometimes I feel like the world is more afraid of me as a Palestinian refugee than it is afraid of the genocide and wars that create refugees in the first place

The Guardian - AU · Dec 6, 2025

Eyes of Gaza journalist reflects on her job, 'mission'

A Palestinian journalist says the need for the world to see what Israel is doing to her country drove her to document the bombardment.

AAP · Oct 13, 2025

Plestia Alaqad: ‘We were talking, applying for jobs. The next day, we woke up to a different reality’

The Melbourne-based Palestinian journalist and poet on life in Australia, her memories of Gaza and living in two worlds

The Guardian - AU · Aug 29, 2025

‘An incredible loss for Palestine’: Israeli offensive takes deadly toll on journalists

The flak jackets handed to Palestinian media workers by the non-profit Press House quickly became a symbol of the dangers they face

The Guardian - UK · Jun 25, 2024

Poetry forged in war: Palestinian exile and social media sensation Plestia Alaqad leaves Sydney audience in tears

The 22-year-old, who went viral for her chronicling of the war, tells Bankstown Poetry Slam about life under bombardment in Gaza

The Guardian - AU · Feb 12, 2024

Attacks on Press Freedoms Have Chilling Effects Far beyond Gaza

The dangers of covering the crisis aren’t limited to front-line reporting. They’re playing out behind the scenes in North American newsrooms too

The Walrus · Jan 30, 2024

Five Great Reads: silent treatment, session musos and the weird world of celebrity trainers

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

The Guardian - AU · Dec 15, 2023

‘I’m not just covering the news – I’m living it’: Gaza’s citizen journalists chronicling life in war

Plestia Alaqad went from Instagrammer to reporter after her footage of Israel’s assault on besieged enclave went viral

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2023

Gaza war is deadliest conflict for journalists in over 30 years, press advocates say

More than 60 journalists and media workers have been killed so far, most of them Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Gaza's journalists have reported while also suffering personal losses.

WEKU · Dec 3, 2023

Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad flees Gaza: ‘I hope this nightmare ends’

Her social media dispatches offered firsthand accounts of the devastation and growing crisis

The Independent UK · Nov 22, 2023