By Tamar Fleishman This is the story of a Palestinian father, who is not allowed to be with his ill son, sit by his bed, or hold his hand as he takes his last breath, […]
By Tamar Fleishman Qalandiya military checkpoint separates those who are granted rights from those who are denied them. Yet, on both sides, there are people who are not really different. Neither Israeli military checkpoints nor […]
By Tamar Fleishman Thousands of Palestinians, women, men and children, crowded at the Qalandiya checkpoint entrances on the third Friday of Ramadan, many of them hoping to gain access to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque. Armed […]
By Tamar Fleishman The Israeli military Qalandiya checkpoint was not designed randomly, but according to an ideology and with a purpose. It was meant to strengthen the occupier’s control over the oppressed, occupied Palestinian population. […]
By Tamar Fleishman My aunt Malka was twelve and a half years old when she was brought to Auschwitz. Except for her two-year-older sister, not a soul of her family was left alive. From then on, […]
By Tamar Fleishman While I was standing at the Qalandiya military checkpoint, six ambulances arrived in a single hour, one after the other. The first to arrive was the last to leave. It carried the […]
By Tamar Fleishman It is late afternoon and an ambulance coming from the West Bank is waiting at the Qalandiya Checkpoint compound to complete the procedure required for Palestinian patients who need to cross either […]
By Tamar Fleishman At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Israeli government issued transit permits to Palestinian construction workers, on the condition that the workers remained at their workplaces without returning to the West […]
Many Palestinian men and women have been murdered here at the Qalandiya military checkpoint. The latest in the seemingly endless line of victims is Ibtisam Ka’abana, a young Palestinian woman who was killed by Israeli […]
“We`re waiting for a cancer patient from Jenin so we can deliver him to Augusta Victoria Hospital on Mount Scopus in East Jerusalem,” said the member of the Jerusalem Red Crescent medical team while waiting […]
I always hear about demolitions and confiscations after the fact. But this is the first time I witness the act of destruction in real-time; the first time I witness the turmoil experienced by the victims […]
By Tamar Fleishman A man who is yet to recover from his surgery waited with his wife for a taxi to take them back home, to Gaza. It was freezing and they were both shivering. […]
By Tamar Fleishman (Translated by Tal Haran) The ill girl in the wheelchair arrived, only to face a locked gate at the end of the track with a twisted, ragged Orwellian sign indicated its ‘humanitarian’ […]
By Tamar Fleishman Radiation treatment of cancer patients was introduced in the mid-20th century and is second in importance only to surgery. In numerous cases of malignant tumors such treatment is considered as effective and […]
By Tamar Fleishman On the winding road leading to the soldiers’ posts stood a woman, her head dropped and her body leaning on the separating railing. “Are you ill?” I asked and felt stupid, because […]
Palestine Chronicle contributor, Tamar Fleishman was at the Qalandiya Checkpoint, linking the occupied West Bank to occupied Jerusalem on the first Friday of Islam’s holy month of Ramadan. Hundreds of Palestinians were turned back, denied […]
Since the start of the Jerusalem Intifada early October, occupied East Jerusalem (Al-Quds) has been living in a virtual state of siege: shops are largely empty, streets vacant, Arab residents of the city harassed, arrested […]
By Tamar Fleishman Around a thousand Palestinian women and some men marched on the main road leading from Ramallah to Qalandiya checkpoint. The women waved Palestinian flags and held posters and photos of relatives that […]
By Tamar Fleishman – Qalandiya The ambulance was detained for about six hours and in it was a resident of Gaza, who had been discharged from a hospital in Nablus after over going heart surgery. […]
By Tamar Fleishman At 1878 governor general Grigory Potemkin, one of Catherine the Great’s statesmen, erected painted facades of prosperous villages on the deserted banks of the Dniester River, where the convoy of the empress […]
By Tamar Fleishman “They burned him and he was still alive”, I heard this sentence from everyone of the members of the Abu Khdeir family, when I came to their home two days after the […]
By Tamar Fleishman – Qalandiya The supervision over the people arriving at the checkpoint, over the thousands of families living in Qalandiya refugee camp and over the tens of businesses on the main road between […]
By Tamar Fleishman The girl with the doll, her mother and her two sisters, one of which was burning up with fever and kept crying each time she saw a soldier, weren’t permitted to pass […]
By Tamar Fleishman – Qalandiya “We just want to live”, one person said and so do many others. Just to live. But it’s hard to live when everyday arise new problems, new restrictions and new […]
By Tamar Fleishman During each and every one of the Fridays on the Ramadan month, the authorities of the Israeli occupation implement rules for the sake of appearances: The appearance of alleviations. The appearance of […]
By Tamar Fleishman Twenty people, who had been released from hospitals all around the West Bank, gathered at Qalandiya checkpoint in order to receive permits from the DCO and head home to the Gaza strip. […]
By Tamar Fleishman It was the Second Holiday (the seventh day of Passover). Another two day of closure. Not many Palestinian come to the checkpoint when on days of closures. A sleepy soldier, probably bitter […]
By Tamar Fleishman The thousands of people who arrive at Qalandiya checkpoint and its surroundings each day didn’t hold their breaths when they heard Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement that “unilateral actions by the […]
By Tamar Fleishman I decided to talk about the detainment of Palestinians by the army through the story of three people; I attempted to portray the larger picture by using personal stories. These people aren’t […]
By Tamar Fleishman “Women shall be especially protected against any attack on their honor…or any form of indecent assault” — (Article 27 of the Geneva Convention) Nadia didn’t have a permit and she wasn’t about […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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