Fadi at Qalandiya Checkpoint – And the Day We Became the Murderers

By Tamar Fleishman

At the Qalandiya checkpoint, Fadi — a disabled Palestinian fruit vendor — is humiliated by Israeli police, exposing not just his suffering, but a deeper truth.

Coming to Qalandiya on a day suspended between two memorials is like stepping into open, bleeding wounds — theirs and mine, of the past and the present.

Pain is no longer something we talk about. We simply…