Twenty people who had been released from hospitals all around the West Bank gathered at the Qalandiya checkpoint recently in order to receive permits to head home to the Gaza Strip. Since the morning hours they had been standing and waiting, sitting (...)
It was the Second Holiday (the seventh day of Passover). Another two days of closure. Not many Palestinians come to the checkpoint on days of closure.
A sleepy soldier, probably bitter because he had to stay at this evil place on the holiday, (...)
Hundreds of years have passed since the prophet Hosea spoke these words of reproach: “The days of punishment have come; The days of retribution have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool; The inspired man is demented; Because of the (...)
A sick child is a sick child.
A child discharged from hospital after surgery is in need of rest.
But this trivial equation doesn't work in a reality of occupation.
Omar, a seven year old child who had been discharged from hospital some hours earlier (...)
We usually prefer to exit Palestine using the Hizme checkpoint, where, unlike at the other exit checkpoints, there are no long lines of cars. We aren't detained, and there is no need for identification or getting out of the vehicle to open and (...)
There was no electricity for five days and no water in Qalandiya refugee camp, said Mahmoud. “Just as it was at your place,” he said. I thought: that isn't exactly how it was at our place, Mahmoud.
The relics of the snow by the side of the (...)
I don't know his name. But I know the clear gaze of his eyes through which deep desperation was reflected, and the time that passed hasn't dissolved or dulled the memory of the shadow of grief that was cast upon him and his mother.
I know it is my (...)
“Creating a feeling of persecution” is the code name for the Israeli Defence Forces' (IDF) activities intended to make the lives of the Palestinians a living hell, using mental and physical terror that condemn an entire population to a life of (...)
It was announced on the noon news-flashes that the security forces had caught a terrorist at the Qalandiya checkpoint. It was said that the man had tried to smuggle eight pipe bombs through the checkpoint in his bag. The terrorist had been taken in (...)
The final two days of Israel's so-called “Pillar of Cloud” operation against Gaza were declared as days of rage on the West Bank. In front of the checkpoints, the prisons and the army bases — the symbols of the Israeli occupation — fierce (...)
A vignette of modern Palestine shows the invidious strategy Israel uses to ethnically cleanse while playing by the rules, describes Tamar Fleishman* from the West Bank
This March marked the fiftieth anniversary of Algeria's liberation from the (...)
In the second instalment of her reports from the occupied West Bank, Tamar Fleishman* describes sentences handed down in Israeli military courts
What does a military judge know about childhood in the Qalandiya refugee camp, about growing up in the (...)
Tamar Fleishman provides vignettes of life in the West Bank as seen through the eyes of Palestinian youth
"This place is the carbuncle on the ass of the occupation," said Dalit Baum as the gates of Ofer prison closed behind us.
The Palestinian (...)