WEST BANK. Qalandia Israeli checkpoint. June 2024. One of the watchtowers of the Qalandia checkpoint. Qalandia is the main IDF checkpoint between the northern West Bank and Jerusalem, controlling Palestinian access to East Jerusalem and Israel. “Amnesty International has analysed and reported on Israel’s intent to create and maintain a system of oppression and domination over Palestinians and examined its key components: territorial fragmentation; segregation and control; dispossession of land and property; and denial of economic and social rights. It has concluded that this system amounts to apartheid.” Amnesty International.