Abu Nada was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on 24 June 1991 to a family of Palestinian refugees displaced by the depopulation of the village of Bayt Jirja by Israeli forces during the Nakba.

[7] Abu Nada was a contributor to Wikipedia, in 2021 she volunteered at the internet encyclopedia through the distance learning program, which was called WikiWrites and she was a linguistic proofreader of articles before they were published by students.

"[10] She published a number of collections of poetry, and a novel, titled al-Uksujīn laysa lil-mawtā ("Oxygen is not for the dead", Arabic: الأكسجين ليس للموتى).

In her post on X written on October 7, at the start of Hamas-led attack on Israel, she wrote (in Arabic):[14]Someone wanted to walk in the streets of his occupied city.

In her last post on X, written next day, on October 8, she wrote:[1]Gaza’s night is dark apart from the glow of rockets, quiet apart from the sound of the bombs, terrifying apart from the comfort of prayer, black apart from the light of the martyrs.

It is taking shape now.On 20 October 2023, she was killed by an Israeli airstrike while at her home in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.