India, Sept. 24 -- Plestia Alaqad, a 23-year-old Palestinian journalism graduate came to be known as "Eyes of Gaza" for her social media reporting following the large scale Israeli bombardments of Gaza after the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023. This book also titled The Eyes of Gaza offers a personal history of the bombardment that has, until September 2025, killed more than 65,000 Palestinians and wounded 166,000, as per the records of Gaza's ministry of health and other reputable sources.

After studying New Media and Journalism at the Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus, Alaqad returned to Gaza in 2022 determined to show life there. Little did she know what lay ahead.

Written in the form of short diary entries that run from Oc...