Qalandiya
When a five year old boy from A-Ram suffering from a growth in his head needs to be hospitalized urgently, and the first thing his parents must do, before calling an ambulance, is to obtain permits from the authorities to go through the checkpoint, and only then, when the boy arrives at the checkpoint, perhaps conscious, perhaps not, do they remove the IV placed by the Palestinians , transfer him to the Jerusalem ambulance and insert the Jerusalem IV and he’s taken to Muqassed Hospital, don’t make me laugh by quoting the Patient’s Rights Act, which states:
The right to medical care
(b) In a medical emergency, a person is entitled to receive emergency medical care unconditionally.
Prohibition of discrimination
4 (a) No medical facility or clinician shall discriminate between patients on grounds of religion, race, sex, nationality, country of birth, or other such grounds.
Don’t even try to tell the man from Gaza with leukemia who needs treatment that hospitals in Gaza are unable to provide (and even before the recent war had limited means and ability, much less now) who is being brought to hospital in Nablus and must expose his body and suffering before strangers and weapons that the Israeli Patients’ Rights Act contains the following imperatives:
The right to medical care
3. (a) Every person in need of medical care is entitled to receive it in accordance with all laws and regulations and the conditions and arrangements obraining at any given time in the Israeli health care system.
Prohibition of discrimination
4 (a) No medical facility or clinician shall discriminate between patients on grounds of religion, race, sex, nationality, country of birth, or other such grounds.
Qalandiya Checkpoint / Atarot Pass (Jerusalem)
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Click here to watch a video from Qalandiya checkpoint up to mid 2019 Three kilometers south of Ramallah, in the heart of Palestinian population. Integrates into "Jerusalem Envelope" as part of Wall that separates between northern suburbs that were annexed to Jerusalem in 1967: Kafr Aqab, Semiramis and Qalandiya, and the villages of Ar-Ram and Bir Nabala, also north of Jerusalem, and the city itself. Some residents of Kafr Aqab, Semiramis and Qalandiya have Jerusalem ID cards. A terminal operated by Israel Police has functioned since early 2006. As of August 2006, northbound pedestrians are not checked. Southbound Palestinians must carry Jerusalem IDs; holders of Palestinian Authority IDs cannot pass without special permits. Vehicular traffic from Ramallah to other West Bank areas runs to the north of Qalandiya. In February 2019, the new facility of the checkpoint was inaugurated aiming to make it like a "border crossing". The bars and barbed wire fences were replaced with walls of perforated metal panels. The check is now performed at multiple stations for face recognition and the transfer of an e-card. The rate of passage has improved and its density has generally decreased, but lack of manpower and malfunctions cause periods of stress. The development and paving of the roads has not yet been completed, the traffic of cars and pedestrians is dangerous, and t the entire vicinity of the checkpoint is filthy. In 2020 a huge pedestrian bridge was built over the vehicle crossing with severe mobility restrictions (steep stairs, long and winding route). The pedestrian access from public transport to the checkpoint from the north (Ramallah direction) is unclear, and there have been cases of people, especially people with disabilities, who accidentally reached the vehicle crossing and were shot by the soldiers at the checkpoint. In the summer of 2021, work began on a new, sunken entrance road from Qalandiya that will lead directly to Road 443 towards Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. At the same time, the runways of the old Atarot airport were demolished and infrastructure was prepared for a large bus terminal. (updated October 2021)
Tamar FleishmanMay-13-2025Qalandiya: Back-to-back procedure for transferring patients
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