The songs of Electricity Generators have been beaten by the silence of pretty candles

Since June 2006 electricity supplying in Gaza has been changed for ever, and for the worst. In the early days of that period electricity was cut out for four hours per day, and that was bearable. Soon after that the hours has been extended to eight hours per day and sometimes twelve. Ranking between that hours, people has fed up with the situation which has become an endless nightmare. To compensate the shortage in electricity supplying, people has returned to the primal means of generating light : Candles.

Candles has become a basic purchase every day for every family man. " don't forget candles" is an expression heard all day long from wives to their husbands. And you have the choice of picking the color you want, just bring the best which live to the end of the night.

The irony here is for any society it takes sometime to adapt to a new technology. For Gazan people, it took few days to adapt the candles as an alternative resource of electricity.

Life moves on, and candles are everywhere, yet they are not sufficient, candles can't run your TV or computer, candles can't provide 220 volt needed for your fridge, simply they are just for creating a romantic scene at night.

So, people switched to that fabulous invention called (Electricity Generator), and the story became darker and darker even with the advantages. As a matter of fact, generators spread up as hell. At first a few men used it in their shops, soon after the rest followed. Now, more than three quarters of families use generators, and the electricity failure began to vanish against this alternative. But, there are always consequences.

When night falls the sound of generator begins as bee buzz, wherever you move the sound is somehow there. It has become a kind of a lovely music. Electricity problem hasn't solved yet, and seems like it won't. People lose faith in a normal life with normal electricity. Three months ago, people lose faith in generators as well.

Generators are so dangerous, a fact rise up when first three children passed away because of the gas engendered (Carbon Oxide 1). In closed rooms this gas spreads with no scent and its deadly for health. People have not been aware about that since the death accidents started. Perhaps more than fifty people face death as a result of generators, and as far as I remember the last accident killed four children from one family and injured their parents when flames hug the generators, and the explosion resulted burnt every thing down to earth.

Now, if you ask somebody whether he prefers candles or generators, he will say : " candles are so lovely, so romantic, and so peaceful"