# @hyperallergic on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-12-09T21:33:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hyperallergic (@hyperallergic) — https://gondola.cc/hyperallergic

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On September 26, several IDF vehicles were heading towards the Gaza border; some had a circular, megaphone-like speaker system, while others formed a wall of black speakers stacked on top of each other in four columns of six. They broadcast Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the UN 80th General Assembly. IDF soldiers involved in what they dubbed “Shout/Scream Operation” also admitted that they placed additional speaker systems inside the besieged and bulldozed Gaza Strip.

“The broadcast of Netanyahu’s speech was not the first time Israel intentionally used sound and speaker systems to intimidate and terrorize Palestinians in and outside Gaza, and even the people of Lebanon,” writes cultural historian, curator, art critic, and DJ Ellie Armon Azoulay. “‘The Scream,’ known for its use of high-pitched and sharp sound waves that target the vestibular system, is designed to disrupt one’s sense of balance and induce nausea and vomiting. The Israeli military deployed it on Palestinians protesting at checkpoints in 2005 before commencing its use on Israeli anti-government protests.”

In her essay, ellie_aa draws from the research of several musicologists, works by artists who have long explored the the sonic landscape of Israeli aggression, and writing from journalists and poets currently on the ground in Gaza. Read the full piece at the link in bio. 
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Still from Akram Zaatari, "Letter to a Refusing Pilot" (2013), duration: 34 mins. (image courtesy the artist) 

#Opinion #Soundscape #Musicology #Gaza

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