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Even When You Look Away, It Happens Anyway: Bearing Witness in Qalandiya

May 16, 2025

By Palestine Chronicle Staff   I covered my face, as if that simple gesture might somehow make it all vanish. It was as if, by refusing to look, I could stop it from existing—not just in […]

Through Qalandiya on the Third Friday of Ramadan: A Story of Struggle and Hope

March 26, 2025

By Tamar Fleishman I am not a just woman, but I do not cooperate with the state’s crimes. I feel great shame about what is being done in my name, both in Gaza and the West […]

Under the Shadow of the Rifle: First Ramadan Friday at Qalandiya

March 11, 2025

By Tamar Fleishman On the first Friday of Ramadan, Palestinians at Qalandiya Checkpoint faced harsh rejection, denied the right to pray at Al-Aqsa, while enduring the brutal reality of systemic control and humiliation. The sky […]

‘Go to Your Pals’: A Journey through the Checkpoints of Oppression

January 8, 2025

By Tamar Fleishman Life under occupation is a daily battle against dehumanization, but amidst the oppression, the resilience of Palestinian children tells a story of unyielding hope. At the entrance of the Israeli military checkpoint […]

From Qalandiya to Hebron: Young Palestinian Killed amid Occupation Violence

December 7, 2024

By Palestine Chronicle Staff   Israeli forces shot and killed 27-year-old Tariq Ghazawneh from Al-Ram, a town north of occupied Jerusalem.   A young Palestinian man was killed by Israeli occupation forces at the Qalandiya military […]

‘Beautiful Boy’ Ahmed is in Israeli Prison over Social Media Post

November 30, 2023

A few days ago, his baby was born. Ahmad was not there for the birth and had not seen the newborn. While war is waged in Gaza, the world’s gaze is diverted from the millions […]

Palestinian Resistance Clash with Israeli Occupation Troops at Qalandiya

October 8, 2023

By Palestine Chronicle Staff   In a statement, the Resistance News Network said that a small unit belonging to the Palestinian Resistance has arrived at the illegal Jewish settlement of Psagot, near occupied East Jerusalem. […]

No Men Allowed: A Daughter, a Mother and a Heap of Papers at Qalandiya

September 24, 2023

By Tamar Fleishman I thought of all of these patients who have died across checkpoints and walls, without saying goodbye to their loved ones.  The Palestinian woman was on a stretcher.  She looked helpless, motionless, […]

Palestinian Teenager Left to Die after Being Shot by Israeli Forces

June 24, 2023

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian teenager and left him bleeding to death near the Qalandiya military checkpoint, north of Jerusalem, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported citing eyewitness accounts. According to eyewitnesses, the Palestinian […]

‘Let Them Wait’: A Palestinian Man on a Stretcher

June 1, 2023

By Tamar Fleishman Kafr ‘Aqab is a northern Palestinian Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem. It is part of the area that was illegally annexed by Israel in 1967. Most of the residents here hold a […]

The Boy of Qalandiya: He Is Not Idiot, and This Is Not ‘Security’

May 8, 2023

By Tamar Fleishman As I was standing at the Palestinian side of the Israeli military checkpoint of Qalandiya, I saw a Palestinian teenager walking on crutches.  His name is Mohammad Jaber. He is a 14-year-old […]

Resistance and Ramadan at Qalandiya: A Boy’s Tears for Al-Aqsa Mosque (PHOTOS)

March 28, 2023

By Tamar Fleishman I spent the first Friday of Ramadan at the Israeli military checkpoint of Qalandiya. Despite earlier claims by a spokesman for the Israeli military that Israel will be easing restrictions on Palestinians […]

Palestine: A Car Accident Victim’s Long Way to the Hospital

January 17, 2023

By Tamar Fleishman As I was standing at the Qalandiya military checkpoint, I saw an ambulance arriving. It was carrying the victim of a car accident, a frontal collision between two vehicles that took place […]

Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Man in Qalandiya Refugee Camp

January 12, 2023

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man on Thursday in the Qalandiya refugee camp, north of the occupied West Bank city of Jerusalem, the official news agency WAFA reported. The Palestinian Health Ministry announced in a […]

BREAKING: Two Explosions Rock Israeli Military Base, Checkpoint in Occupied West Bank

January 9, 2023

By Palestine Chronicle Staff   Two explosions in Israeli military areas were reported Monday evening in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.  Israeli Army Radio reported that an explosion took place inside an Israeli military base […]

No Justice, No Peace: The Latest Inhumanity from the Israeli Qalandiya Checkpoint

December 30, 2022

As I was standing at the Israeli military checkpoint of Qalandiya, I saw an ambulance arriving from the West Bank, with many people crowded inside, due to the chronic lack of ambulances in the West […]

Israeli Forces Brutally Quell March Demanding Release of Bodies Withheld from Burial

December 28, 2022

Israeli forces on Tuesday brutally quelled a march demanding the release of Palestinian bodies withheld from burial, injuring 11 participants, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that […]

Frozen Lives at the Qalandiya Military Checkpoint

December 11, 2022

By Tamar Fleishman Last week, I was told that Palestinian children from the Qalandiya refugee camp attacked the Israeli military checkpoint, throwing stones and firebombs. They were reportedly very young, 13 or 14 years old.  […]

Stories from Qalandiya: Daring to Cross an Israeli Checkpoint While Dying

October 10, 2022

By Tamar Fleishman  As I was crossing the Israeli military checkpoint of Qalandiya, I was verbally attacked three times by heavily armed soldiers.  “Do you want to be arrested?” they said.  “This is a military […]

Stories from Qalandiya: Children of the Checkpoint

September 28, 2022

By Tamar Fleishman From the outside, nobody can fully understand the difficulties and hardship of Palestinian workers who work nearby Israeli military checkpoints. When they find it difficult to make a livelihood in their towns […]

Stories from Qalandiya: Collaborate or Die

September 26, 2022

By Tamar Fleishman As I was standing at the Qalandiya military checkpoint, I saw a woman with cancer. She was moaning in pain, as four Red Crescent workers lifted her emaciated body and moved her […]

‘They Want Us Dead before They Open the Gate’: Injured Baby at Qalandiya

September 13, 2022

By Tamar Fleishman While I was standing at the Qalandiya military checkpoint, I saw a private car that had been waiting for a long time. Since it was strange to see a private vehicle in […]

Caught 51 Times, 11 Years in Prison: How Raed Became Guilty for Being Palestinian

August 22, 2022

By Tamar Fleishman I sat with Raed in the shade of the wall. Though the wall is often referred to as the  “Separation Barrier”, it is, in actuality, the Israeli apartheid wall. Raed is married, […]

Stories from Qalandiya: Taxation without Representation

August 2, 2022

By Tamar Fleishman A few weeks ago, the shops in front of the Qalandiya refugee camp were raided by Israeli forces. Officials from the Jerusalem Municipality and representatives of the tax authorities had arrived without […]

Stories from Qalandiya: The Blue Baby in the Ambulance

July 7, 2022

By Tamar Fleishman As I was standing at the Qalandiya military checkpoint, an ambulance coming from the northern West Bank city of Tubas was waiting for another ambulance, which arrived from Jerusalem, carrying a 25-day-old […]

Stories from Qalandiya: Where All the Troubles of the World Converge

June 27, 2022

By Tamar Fleishman I was going home after spending a long time on the Palestinian side of the Israeli Qalandiya military checkpoint. I had filled my basket with fresh seasonal fruits after taking pictures near […]

Stories from Qalandiya: ‘I Only Follow Rules’

June 20, 2022

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, […]

Stories from Qalandiya: A Miniature Jesus at a Military Checkpoint

June 14, 2022

By Tamar Fleishman What do you call it, when bureaucracy takes precedence over a person’s health and human life is not a priority anymore? I don’t know how to define a situation when a baby, […]

Qalandiya Stories: Being a Premature Baby in Palestine

June 1, 2022

By Tamar Fleishman For hours, Mustafa was stuck at the Israeli military checkpoint, waiting for the bureaucratic procedures to be finalized. Only a few steps and he will cross the checkpoint to continue on his […]

Qalandiya Stories: Abdallah’s Last Stand

May 31, 2022

By Tamar Fleishman The last time Israeli soldiers destroyed Abdallah’s fruit stand and only source of income was last August. Soon after the assault, Abdallah went home, in despair. But very soon, he got back […]

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