While airports are often seen as emblems of seamless mobility and an interconnected world, for Palestinians and other marginalized populations (refugees, migrants), airports often represent the inaccessibility and exclusionary nature of such transnational networks circulation. Palestinians, as a fragmented population that predominantly lives in exile or under occupation, have long experienced spaces of transit as sites of stasis and blockage, as reflected in literary works such as Mahmoud Darwish’s poem “Athens Airport.” The airport as a place of immobility is particularly evident in Palestinian narratives of Ben Gurion/Lydda Airport in Israel, where practices of racial profiling, harassment, and detention of Palestinians are well documented. Drawing on Jasbir Puar’s notion of debility and Sara Ahmed’s writings on exilic mobility to develop the idea of arrested movement, this presentation examines Palestinian representations of detention that constitute a counternarrative to the frictionless global airport. I focus on three recent works: Adania Shibli’s short story “Out of Time,” Randa Jarrar’s first-hand account of detention entitled “Imagining Myself in Palestine,” and Raba’i al-Madhoun’s novel Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and Nakba. In each of these, the stoppage and delay of movement through Ben Gurion airport renders Palestinians mute, comatose, and disoriented through moments of spatial inversion, sensory deprivation, and temporal suspension. In this light, I consider to what extent the arrested movement of Palestinians at the airport constitutes a form of mass debilitation, which Puar defines as the imposition of physical and bodily harm in order to produce precarious populations that are vulnerable to discipline and control. I conclude, however, by considering how the act of narrating temporal suspension, spatial distortion, and bodily immobility can produce a sense of shared experience by recoding spaces of detention in the airport as “Arab” or “Palestinian.” This suggests that arrested movement at the airport can provide a catalyst for acts of solidarity and protest, complicating notions of mobility and movement as subversive and liberating.