Gaza peace deal ushers in new era of scrolling past news about Middle East

After over two years of horror, trauma, and being held captive by forces that didn’t care about his well-being, one man has finally been able to celebrate the return of his freedom to scroll past stories about Gaza on Instagram without feeling a little bit guilty.

While the world celebrates Donald Trump waving around his ceremonial Sharpie to sign a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, nobody is jumping for joy more than Glen Iris local Alistair Sturgeon, who says he knows firsthand what it felt like to have his rights taken away.

“It really is good that the hostages are free, because in a way I was also a hostage. To societal expectations,” said the 27-year-old full-time Letterboxd reviewer. [...]