Intermission

Daffa Naradhipa
2 min readNov 11, 2023

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Photo courtesy of Motaz Azaiza (October 27 — Occupied Gaza)

We interrupt your regularly scheduled algorithm fed content with explicit pictures of the dead. Dead children and dead babies and dead fathers and mothers with their cats and dogs all around the rubble.

You won’t be able to scroll past this, or tune out, or press the “not for me” option, because just as the page says, it’s “For you.”

We interrupt your regularly scheduled video podcast and evening drama with footage of hellfire raining down the streets of Gaza.

The weatherman says today’s forecast is 90% chance of missile rain, especially in areas near hospitals, schools, or water depots. Maybe you’ll see a video of the storm tonight.

The skip button won’t appear after you watch for 5 seconds or 15 seconds, this ad is unskippable.

This is not a video you watch while eating, or an ASMR to help you sleep. We hope this’ll keep you up in bed at night.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled music streaming session with deafening sounds of explosions, eerie silence, and the cries of help heard after. What you’re listening to is the song made from millions of displaced and dying souls.

This song won’t chart at the Billboard top 500, or be certified platinum, or make it to your yearly wrapped list. This song will be heard even if you don’t want to listen.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled mind numbing, soul sucking news, with journalists reporting of their dead brothers and sisters by the minute. There won’t be irrelevant politics played by disgusting men and women, or gossip about your idol’s dating life, or what the Kardashians are doing. There will only be death tolls and injury, and picking up lifeless bodies from the ruins.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program for a live report on the genocide. This will not go well with pizza and coke, or any other of your favorite snacks. There will not be hiding behind rationalization or talks of “terrorists” we will only speak about human lives.

Please be advised that any horror you see on screen is happening now in real time.

We will not apologize for the interruption.

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Daffa Naradhipa

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