Plestia Alaqad had found a new beginning. The young Palestinian journalist, who risked her life to document the horrors of the war in Gaza for her millions around the world, moved to Lebanon last ...

Plestia Alaqad, a Palestinian journalist whose dispatches from Gaza have provided a rare glimpse of the war to millions of social media followers around the world, has fled Gaza amid Israel’s ongoing ...

Plestia Alaqad, a Palestinian journalist who chronicled the destruction of her native Gaza, joins Washington Post Live to discuss what it was like to live under siege, the difficult decision to leave ...

UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL ARTIST: Come check this. LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: If you scrolled through Plestia Alaqad's Instagram account before October 7, 2023, you would have found snapshots of the young ...

Plestia Alaqad, who grew up with dreams of becoming a journalist, has chronicled the destruction of her native Gaza to her nearly 5 million Instagram followers since the outbreak of the war with ...

Before the war, Plestia Alaqad didn’t think much about her Instagram feed. She posted a few photos of herself next to the Mediterranean, holding her friend’s son, petting her dog, Luki. She uploaded a ...

Plestia Alaqad Zooms me from Beirut, Lebanon, tweaking her black curls and throwing on her jean jacket — after all, “this is for Teen Vogue,” she grins — as we settle in for our conversation. The ...