Ep. 112 - More Time with Plestia Alaqad
This week Lara and Michael sit down with Plestia Alaqad, one of the leading voices from the ground in Gaza. She’s a primary source who survived and documented the ongoing genocide in Palestine in real time. Plestia shares reflections on the notion of believing you will have more time, survivor’s guilt, Gaza’s culture and close knit community and the fiction of choice when it comes to being a victim of Nakba.
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00:00 Intro
02:10 Introduction to Plestia
04:50 Plestia's frame of mind in early October
08:29 "The situation is overwhelming. Palestinians cannot process what is happening."
09:53 Leaving Gaza was not a choice
13:44 Conversations between Gazan journalists
15:21 Dark stories and dark future
17:40 Plestia's grandparents: Nakba survivors
18:40 On going back to Gaza
19:20 Life in Gaza before October 7: Culture, community, and people
24:00 Survivor's guilt
26:24 Favorite childhood days in Gaza
28:59 Q Café and erased memories
33:26 What it's like to report on the genocide of your own people
39:32 Living from one extreme to another
42:10 Gazans trying to leave are being extorted
42:57 Untold stories of Gazans
45:50 Origin of the name Plestia and final word
49:20 Outro