A gunshot transformed anxious waiting into real danger.

Evidence

Inside the van were the driver and another man with his two young daughters. The mood was anxious and everyone was waiting for something terrible to happen. The Israeli soldiers had halted all cars, and the air was unbearably still. Then Akram heard a gunshot. “And that’s when it got real,” he told me. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 550