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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

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.

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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

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Friday essay: ‘whose agony is greater than mine?’ Testimonies of Gaza and October 7 ask us to recognise shared humanity

In 1962, poet and Auschwitz survivor Yehiel Dinur took the stand in Jerusalem in the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Dinur was a much-anticipated witness, bearing the audience’s hope this man, a poet, would be able to explain – to capture and to transmit – the experience of…

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Things To Do In Each State This ANZAC Day Long Weekend

From performances, comedy to art exhibitions. Here's what to do on ANZAC Day Long Weekend in each state in Australia.

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Sydney writers’ festival 2025: tallying authors’ views on Israel-Gaza ‘tokenistic and unfortunate’, organisers say

After the shock resignation of the festival’s chair, the Sydney writers’ festival unveils its starry 2025 program in ‘an incredibly polarised environment’

The Guardian - AU

Young Palestinian journalist who reported on Gaza's destruction now continues education in Lebanon

A young Palestinian journalist whose coverage of the widespread destruction and humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip went viral now watches the war from afar in Lebanon

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‘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

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

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

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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

‘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

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.

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

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

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