In Hebron, arguably the most systemically discriminatory city in the region, Israeli forces have taken to the humiliating practice of strip-searching Palestinians.
Palestinians in Hebron say Israeli forces strip-searched them on their way home
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The latest in Israel’s strip-searching of women & children
Israel has long strip-searched women and children, a policy that U.S. media often cover up, from AP to Democracy Now. Most recently a Palestinian-Finnish reporter refused to submit. Photo is from a previous incident in the Prime Minister’s office. See more info and video…
Ha’aretz: Israeli Arab Students Strip-searched in Airport Check Sue El Al and Arkia
Three young Arab women, students from northern Israel, are suing El Al and Arkia Israeli Airlines over treatment during an airport security check. They say they were forced to undress and underwent humiliating, intrusive body searches. One fainted during the process.
Flashback: Video about Israeli policy of strip-searching of women and children
Ten years ago, If Americans Knew released a video about the Israeli policy of strip-searching women and children. View the video, called “The Easiest Targets,” or read an article describing the interviews contained in it.
Stripped, Beaten, and Blindfolded: ongoing violence and abuse of Palestinian children detained by Israeli military
The latest in a long string of NGO reports on Israel’s serious and widespread abuse of Palestinian children – including arrest, abuse, and threats. Each year, 500-700 face prosecution in a military court system that lacks basic safeguards for a fair trial.
WATCH: Israeli police strip, beat Palestinian child at checkpoint
Video shows Israeli police beating a Palestinian boy after he refuses to take his trousers off in freezing temperatures.
Woman subjected to ‘intimate’ body search by Israeli army appeals case
Israeli army and Shin Bet staff admitted to probing the woman vaginally and anally while arresting her in 2015, yet the case was dismissed… This isn’t an isolated incident…
Israel’s torture and humiliation of female and male Gazan prisoners
Female prisoners were transported in cages, their clothes were stained with blood, most were bleeding from their hands, subjected to strip searches; Israeli soldiers subjected male prisoners to electric shocks, burned their skin with lighters, spat in their mouths
Deported Swedish activist: ‘This is how Israel treated us in prison’
Divinia Levrini describes how flotilla activists were treated in prison: withholding of medical treatment, beatings, “mind games,” strip searching, theft, & death threats.
Israeli Occupation Forces Detain 1319 Palestinians during the months of January and February
Addameer Prisoner Support reports that over 1,300 Palestinians were arrested in the first two months of 2018; 274 of these were children, bringing the total number of Palestinians in Israeli jails to 6,500; 350 of these were children. Among the most pressing issues in the Israeli prison system are torture and strip searches.