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The War Is in My Phone

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yesterday

I don’t live in Israel. There are no sirens outside my window. I don’t check the news to find out if my city still exists.

But when I open my phone, it’s as if the war — which is still very much ongoing — has spilled through the screen.

My feed often feels like a minefield. One post is a tribute to a murdered family. The next is someone I went to high school with reposting slogans that make my stomach turn. Scrolling has started to feel like surveillance. Not of the news itself, but of people I once thought I knew.

There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from watching a war play out online.........

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