ABSTRACT This paper studies the rhetorical questions posed by Atef Abu Saif in his work The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary (2016). By engaging the theoretical position of Paul John Eakin’s witnessing eye and narrative ‘I’, a framework that emphasises the role of the author as a witness and narrative ‘I’ as a tool for expression, this article analyses witnessing, the consequent development of rhetorical questions, and their impact and interplay. It argues that Eakin’s take on witnessing eye and narrative ‘I’ helps foreground the importance of such questions through the generic scope of life narratives, amplifying its representational range in the recent socio-political and literary landscape. The rhetorical questions in the Diary become performative speech acts that communicate the larger contextual significance beyond the textual world. The situatedness of the narrator, Abu Saif, in Gaza and the position of questions in the text instigate a complex interplay of texts and contexts. The autobiographical efficacy of the respective text, contexts, and the symbolic potential of individual and collective bodies are examined in this article to study these questions. Consequently, this analysis significantly contributes to the fields of witnessing and rhetorical questioning in life narratives, thereby enriching wider academic discussions.