A canary sings while the air is good.
When it goes quiet, everyone listens.
Canary Palestine is an early-warning newsroom for water, air, power and health in Gaza and the West Bank. It listens to named reports, station by station, and says so when a station goes quiet.
How a status is set
Every station is one place and one thing: a village water line, a set of clinics, a power line. When a named organisation publishes a report on it, the desk reads the report and gives the station one of four statuses, drawn as the canary's call. The status is the desk's reading, not an official alert, and it always links to the report it rests on.
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Alert
THE ALARM CALL
Harm reported now: a line cut, a well demolished, medicines at zero stock, a team stopped on the road.
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Watch
THE SONG BREAKING
Damage, loss or a risk reported: a network losing half its water, a plant not running, outbreaks expected.
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Steady
THE SONG
Working, restored or added: a well back on, a dump cleared, a plan launched.
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Silent
NO CALL
No recent public report. The desk counts the days since the last one and keeps asking.
Who the desk listens to
Public reports only: UN agencies, Palestinian authorities, local councils and named officials quoted by news agencies. A reading without a named source is not shown.
Corrections
When the desk gets something wrong, the station's page and the report say so, with the date of the correction and what changed. Nothing is quietly rewritten.
Send a report
Councils, water and power utilities, clinics and residents can send the desk a report: what happened, where, when, and who can confirm it. The desk checks it against a second source before a station changes its call.