The children just rang my doorbell. My neighbors are all outside, because they’ve heard somewhere, somehow, that we should all be taking precautions and not staying indoors after the earthquake that shook Crete several hours ago, and was felt along the Mediterranean coast of Israel (and of course Gaza as well).
I wonder where they got this information?
We are usually never informed about anything here — when the water will be cut, when the electricity will be cut, when the checkpoint will be removed, when the Gate in The Wall might be reopened to ease the congestion for children who must go through the mess at Qalandia checkpoint (“border crossing”) to get to school and back every day.
There are only ever rumors — that is part of what it means to live under occupation.
And now, we have a rumor of an earthquake alert — which will affect both occupiers and occupied.