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Writer: Tamar Fleishman

– As a member of Machsomwatch, Tamar Fleishman documents events at Israeli military checkpoints between Jerusalem and Ramallah. Her reports, photos and videos can be found on the organization’s website: www.machsomwatch.org. She is also a member of the ‘Coalition of Women for Peace’ and a volunteer in ‘Breaking the Silence’. Tamar Fleishman is The Palestine Chronicle correspondent at the Qalandiya checkpoint.

 

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

June 27, 2022

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 the Qalandiya refugee […]

Stories from Qalandiya: ‘I Only Follow Rules’

June 20, 2022

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, due to the […]

Stories from Qalandiya: A Miniature Jesus at a Military Checkpoint

June 14, 2022

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, sedated and ventilated, […]

Qalandiya Stories: Being a Premature Baby in Palestine

June 1, 2022

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 way to see […]

Qalandiya Stories: Abdallah’s Last Stand

May 31, 2022

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 on his feet. […]

What I Saw in Beit Hanina, Shireen Abu Akleh’s Neighborhood (PHOTOS)

May 18, 2022

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 the apartheid wall […]

‘Take Photos’: Orwellian Scenes at the Qalandiya Checkpoint (PHOTOS)

May 3, 2022

‘Take photos!’, young Palestinian men urged me while they were being chased by Israeli soldiers. The youth were hoping to cross the Israeli checkpoint to reach Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem to pray on the final […]

Facial Recognition and the Right to Worship in Qalandiya (PHOTOS)

April 26, 2022

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 with their faith […]

The Rosa Parks of Palestine: Here’s to the Human Spirit

April 19, 2022

Every Friday, the story repeats itself at Qalandiya military checkpoint: the same characters, the same rules, the same scenario, the same ruthless domination, and the same Orwellian lingo.  Only the small, personal, human details change.  […]

‘She is One of Us’: Gladiator Games at the Qalandiya Checkpoint

April 12, 2022

The Israeli government recently claimed that they will be easing some restrictions of movement in order to allow Palestinians freedom to worship during the holy month of Ramadan. But when I visited the Qalandiya checkpoint […]

The Very Gray Zone: A Palestinian Woman in Israel’s Labyrinth (PHOTOS)

March 14, 2022

Amidst haze and dust rising, a Palestinian woman waited inside an ambulance for the arrival of another ambulance from Jerusalem. I do not know which kind of illness the woman had, but she looked exhausted […]

Meanwhile in Palestine: On the Politics of Life and Death

February 28, 2022

As I was standing at the Qalandia military checkpoint, I saw a Red Crescent ambulance, which was parked at the designated spot, waiting for its Palestinian counterpart. The paramedic, whom I’ve known for years, told […]

‘There is a Crack in Everything’: Why Does Israel Build Checkpoints

February 8, 2022

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.  No one coming […]

On Intl. Holocaust Remembrance Day: Auschwitz, My Aunt, and the Palestinian ‘Moishale’

January 27, 2022

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, the sisters held […]

How Many Ambulances, How Many Stretchers: Stories from Qalandiya

January 3, 2022

How long does it take for Gaza patients to go back home from a hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus? How many stretchers do they have to be dragged on after being […]

No Country for Dead Palestinians: Six Encounters at the Qalandiya Checkpoint (PHOTOS)

December 20, 2021

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 body of a […]

Without Saying a Word: The Electrocuted Boy at the Qalandiya Checkpoint

December 11, 2021

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 to a hospital […]

‘The Worst Time for Us’: A Regular Encounter at Jerusalem’s Moughrabi Gate (PHOTOS)

October 30, 2021

Throughout the years, I have often visited the Old City of Jerusalem, and I have never seen such a large number of armed Israeli soldiers there.  They stand at every street corner, patrolling alleys and […]

A Ladder over the Wall: Why Palestinian Worker Khaled Drags His Leg as He Walks

October 25, 2021

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 Bank. Khaled held […]

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