The First Friday of Ramadan at Qalandiya (PHOTOS)

(All photos: Tamar Fleishman, Palestine Chronicle)

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 entry to Jerusalem, thus prevented from praying at Al-Aqsa Mosque. She took these photos.