“I felt like there was an earthquake far off like the bed I was lying on was moving and sailing,” said Baruch Ben Neria, a resident who reported his experience to the authorities. “I’m not making it up,” he said. “I’ve been feeling this for the last two years, and sometimes it lasts for minutes in the middle of the night. There’s quiet outside, and then suddenly, it happens.

“At first, I thought it might be heavy trucks passing on the road,” said Ben Neria, “but there weren’t any trucks in the middle of the night.”

“Kalkilya is a straight line from here, close by, they can dig to us from there,” he continued. “My house is something like 200 meters from the fence. After what happened in Gaza, and the fact that they found tunnels in the Galilee in the past– which is a really rocky terrain, similar to what we have here– the whole story raises a big question mark.”

[One resident warned that the damage from a 10/7-style attack from the West Bank would hit the “soft underbelly” of Israel. I doubt that there’s much of Israel that’s “soft” at the moment, but perhaps the Israelis might consider arming its citizens in the region ahead of time. Israel has very restrictive gun-control policies that they relaxed a little after the massacres on the kibbutzes, but it remains to be seen whether the Israelis will rethink this approach on a wider scale. — Ed]