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Plestia Alaqad (Maya Plestia)
Journalist
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israel palestine
civilian experience
war reporting
Plestia Alaqad is a Palestinian journalist and author who documented daily life in Gaza during the 2023–present conflict, posting extensively to Instagram from inside Gaza. She was evacuated from Gaza in late 2023 and continued advocacy journalism from abroad. Her accounts of conditions inside Gaza gained millions of followers.