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Plestia Alaqad

Plestia Alaqad

The Guardian

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As I sit here in Australia watching Israel starve Palestinians to death, I can’t help but think it could have been me

As I sit here in Australia watching Israel starve Palestinians to death, I can’t help but think it could have been me
05.08.2025 50

The Guardian

Plestia Alaqad

My grandmother watches with dismay as Australia’s response to Trump’s Gaza comments is tepid at best

07.02.2025 20

The Guardian

Plestia Alaqad

Yara is grateful to be in Australia. But it’s not Christmas while family and friends suffer in Gaza

It’s almost Christmas, and I always like to be the first one to wish my best friend, Yara, a merry Christmas as she’s always the first one to wish...

18.12.2024 50

The Guardian

Plestia Alaqad

I fled Gaza to Australia not by choice but as a matter of survival. How can I be a security risk?

“Where should the birds fly after the last sky?” The poet Mahmoud Darwish asked this decades ago, and every day for the past 10 months, I’ve been...

19.08.2024 50

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Plestia Alaqad