[News] Israeli Strip Searches

[Anti-Imperialist News]

http://www.counterpunch.org/weir07292008.html

July 29, 2008


Letting AP in on the Secret


Israeli Strip Searches

By ALISON WEIR

On June 26th a young Palestinian photojournalist 
named Mohammed Omer was returning home from a triumphant European tour.

In London he had been awarded the 2008 Martha 
Gellhorn Prize for journalism – the youngest 
recipient ever and one of the few non-Britons 
ever to receive the prestigious prize.

In Greece he had been given the 2008 journalism 
award for courage by the Union of Greek 
Journalists and had been invited to speak before the Greek parliament.

In Britain, the Netherlands, Greece, and Sweden 
he had met with Parliament Members and been 
interviewed on major radio and TV stations.

In the US several years before, he had been named 
the first recipient of the New America Media’s Best Youth Voice award.

In an Israeli border facility he was violently 
strip-searched at gunpoint, forced to do a 
grotesque sort of dance while completely naked, 
assaulted, taunted about his awards and his 
ethnicity, and finally, when Israeli officials 
feared he might have been fatally injured, taken 
by ambulance to a Palestinian hospital; if he 
died, it would not be while in Israeli custody.

As readers may have already guessed, Israel was 
not part of Omer’s speaking tour.

AP, in its over 60 reports from the region in the 
following week never mentioned any of this.

The reason Omer was even in ‘Israel’ (actually, 
an “immigration terminal” controlled by Israel on 
occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank) is a 
simple one: He was simply trying to go from 
Jordan to his home in the Gaza Strip. Gaza is 
basically a large concentration camp to which 
Israel holds the keys. It is extremely difficult 
for Palestinians to get out. It is just as difficult to get back in.

Despite Omer's journalism credentials (Gaza 
correspondent for the Washington Report on Middle 
East Affairs and IPS, stringer for AFP, 
occasionally appears on BBC, etc.) and despite 
being invited to receive an international award, 
Omer was only able to exit Gaza through the 
considerable efforts of Dutch diplomats.

When the 24-year-old journalist tried to return 
to Gaza, it again required intercession by the 
Dutch Embassy. After being forced by Israel to 
wait in Jordan for five days (and therefore 
missing his brother’s wedding), Omer finally 
received word that he would be allowed to go home.

However, when he arrived at the Israeli 
immigration terminal, an Israel official told him 
that there was no entry permit for him in the 
computer and he was told to wait. Three hours 
later an official came out and took Omer’s cell 
phone away from him. While Omer’s Dutch Embassy 
escort waited outside, unaware of what was going on, Omer's ordeal began.

“He then asked me to leave my belongings and 
follow him. I recognized we were entering the 
Shin Bet [Israeli internal security service] 
offices at Allenby. Upon entering, he motioned 
for me to sit in a chair within a closed corridor


“After what seemed to be one hour and thirty 
minutes, both doors at the end of the corridor 
opened. I watched as one of the Palestinian 
passengers exited securing his belt to his 
trousers. A second man followed behind and was 
struggling to put on his T-shirt. Immediately I 
realized I was not in a good place. The rooms 
from which they exited must be used for strip searching


A uniformed intelligence officer and two others 
began rifling through all of Omer’s possessions.

“They were looking for something specific but I 
wouldn’t know what until green eyes demanded, 'Where is the money, Mohammed?'

“What money I thought. Of course I had money on 
me. I was traveling
 For a moment I was relieved, 
thinking this was just a typical shakedown. I'd 
lose the cash with me, but that would be about it...

“However, my traveling money failed to suffice. 
Dissatisfied, he pressed, 'Where is the money from the prize?'

“I realized he was after the award stipend for 
the Martha Gellhorn Prize from the UK and I told 
him I did not have it with me. I’d arranged for a 
bank transfer rather than carry it with me. 
Visibly irritated the intelligence agent continued to press for money.

“The room filled with more intelligence officers, 
bringing the total Israeli personnel, most well 
armed, in the room to eight: eight Israelis and me


“Dissatisfied that larger sums of money failed to 
materialize, green eyes accused me of lying. I 
again repeated the prize money went to bank draft 
and I already had shown him all the cash I had on 
me. Avi interjected, ordering me to empty my 
pockets, which I already had. Seeing they had 
tapped out, he escorted me into another room, this one empty.

“'OK take off your clothes' Avi the intelligence officer ordered.

“I asked why. A simple pat-down would have 
disclosed any money belts or weapons; besides, I 
had already gone through an x-ray machine before 
entering the passport holding area.

“He repeated the order.

“Removing all but my underwear, I stood before 
Avi. In an increasingly belligerent tone he ordered, 'take off everything'.

“'I am not taking off my underwear,' I stated. 
Again he ordered me to remove my underwear.

“At this point I informed him that an escort from 
the Dutch embassy was currently waiting for me on 
the other side of the interrogation center and 
that I was under diplomatic transit.

“He replied he knew that, thus indicating he 
didn't care, and again insisted I strip. Again I 
refused. There was no reason for me to do so.

Omer asked:  'Why are you treating me this way? I am human being.'

"For a moment I flashed on the scene in the Oscar 
winning film, The Pianist where the Jewish man, 
being humiliated by a Nazi quoted Shakespeare, 
invoking his faith in place of written words, 
‘Doth a Jew not have eyes?’ the old man queried, 
attempting to appeal to the humanity buried 
somewhere in the soul of his oppressor. Finding 
myself confronting the same racism and disdain I 
wanted to ask Avi, ‘Doth a Palestinian not have eyes?’

Would his indoctrination inoculate him from 
empathy as well? Likely, I reasoned, it would.

“Avi smirked, half chuckling as he informed me, 
'This is nothing compared to what you will see now.'

“With that the intelligence officer unholstered 
his weapon, pressing it to my head and with his 
full body weight pinning me on my side, he 
forcibly removed my underwear. Completely naked, 
I stood before him as he proceeded to feel me up one side and down the other


“Avi then proceeded to demand I do a concocted 
sort of dance, ordering me to move to the right 
and the side. When I refused, he forced me under 
his own power to move side to side
”

After awhile Omer was allowed to put his clothes 
back on, but the interrogation continued. His 
eight, mostly armed interrogators taunted him 
over his awards, his appearance on BBC, and the 
misery he was returning to in what they termed 
“dirty” Gaza. Finally, after hours in Israeli 
custody and a total of 12 hours without food or water, Omer collapsed.

“
.without warning I began to vomit all over the 
room. At the same time I felt my legs buckled 
from the strain of standing and I passed out
 I 
awoke on the floor to someone screaming, repeating my name over and over


“As he screamed in my ears I felt his fingernails 
puncturing my skin, gouging, scraping and clawing 
at the tender flesh beneath my eyes. This was the 
intelligence officer's method for gauging my 
level of consciousness. No smelling salts as is 
the civilized manner for reviving a person. 
Clawing at my eyes and tearing the skin on my 
face proved his manner of rendering aid.

“Realizing I was again conscious, though barely, 
the Israeli broadened his assault, scooping my 
head and digging his nails in near the auditory 
nerves between my head and ear drum. Rather then 
render first aid, which is the protocol and 
international law in instances whether prisoners 
of war or civilians, the soldier broadened his 
assault. The pain became sharper as he dug his 
nails, two fingers at a time into my neck, 
grazing my carotid artery and again challenging 
my consciousness before pummeling my chest with his full weight and strength.

“I estimate I lay on the floor approximately one 
hour and twenty minutes and I continued to vomit 
for what seemed like a half hour. Severely 
dehydrated, focusing took flight and the room 
became a menagerie of pain, sound and terror. The 
stench further exasperated and seemed to inflame my captors further


“All around me I heard Israeli voices and then 
one placed his combat boot on my neck pressing 
into the hard floor. I remember choking, feeling 
the outline of his shoe and in my increasing 
delirium thought for a moment perhaps someone was 
rendering aid. Reality destroyed that hope. 
Around me, like men watching a sporting match I 
heard laughing and goading, a gang rape of verbal 
and physical violence meted by men entrenched in 
hatred and rage... I again lost consciousness and 
awoke to find myself being dragged by my feet on 
my back through my vomit on the floor, my head 
bouncing on the pavement and body sweeping to-and-fro like a mop


Eventually, Omer was transferred to a Palestinian 
hospital, but only after Israeli officials tried 
to force him to sign a paper absolving them from responsibility.

“In other words, if I died or was permanently 
disabled as a result of Israel’s actions, Israel 
could not be held accountable. One would think I 
was in a third world dictatorship rather than the 
‘only democracy in the Middle East’. One would think.”

Where is AP?

One would also think that such treatment of a 
journalist by America’s “special ally” would be news.

Since journalists tend to be particularly 
concerned when fellow journalists are victimized, 
it would be expected that Omer’s abuse would 
receive considerable press attention – especially 
since he had just received international 
recognition from the journalism community. One 
can only imagine the multitude of headlines that 
would result if an Israeli journalist, perhaps 
even one who had not just been feted 
internationally, had been similarly treated by the Palestinian Authority.

Oddly, however, despite the fact that Reuters, 
BBC, the UK Guardian, Israel’s Ha’aretz 
newspaper, and others issued news reports, the 
Associated Press, which serves virtually every 
daily newspaper in the U.S., sent out nothing on it.

Astounded, I finally phoned AP headquarters in 
New York to find out how they had missed it.

I asked for the international desk, told them I 
had a news tip, and briefly described the 
incident. I was told, “Oh yes, we know about it.”

I asked them when they were going to report it 
and was told: “The Jerusalem bureau is looking 
into it.” The Jerusalem bureau is located in 
Israel; many of its editors and their 
wives/husbands/children have Israeli citizenship. 
It is not the most unbiased of bureaus. Yet, it 
is the control bureau for the region – the filter 
through which virtually all AP reports, photos, 
video footage from Palestine and Israel must pass.

A day or two later there was still no story. I 
phoned the international desk in New York again 
and was told that the Jerusalem bureau had 
decided not to cover the incident. There was no explanation.

I tried phoning higher-ups, including CEO Tom 
Curley, who goes about the country lecturing 
about the “public’s right to know” and Kathleen 
Carroll, Executive Editor, to learn on what basis 
AP had determined this incident was not 
newsworthy. Neither returned my call. I kept 
trying, hoping to find somewhere in the AP 
hierarchy at least a semblance of a journalist 
committed to AP’s alleged mission of reporting 
the news “accurately and honestly.”

Finally, I found one. I reached the managing 
editor in charge of international reporting, and 
asked him why AP was refusing to cover the case 
of a prize-winning journalist being 
strip-searched at gunpoint and physically abused 
by Israeli officials when he returned to Gaza 
from receiving the Martha Gellhorn award in London.

The editor admitted that he hadn’t heard of the 
incident and was interested in the details. I 
told him what I knew, referred him to the UK 
Guardian article and others, and he said he’d look into it.

As a result, two weeks after Omer’s ordeal, and 
after Israel had solidified its denial narrative, AP finally sent out a report.

The belated story, datelined Jerusalem and 
carrying a byline by Karin Laub, left a great deal to be desired.

It depicted the incident as a “he said/she said” 
dispute, in which it termed Omer’s statements as 
“claims,” while never using this verb for Israeli 
statements. In every case Israeli statements are 
placed in the rebuttal position.

The lengthy article places Omer’s strongest 
descriptions in the second half of the story, 
where they would typically be cut by the 
averaged-sized print newspaper, and leaves out a 
great deal of important information.

For example, while AP reports that Omer was 
discharged from one hospital, it neglects to 
report that Omer was admitted to a second one 
where he was hospitalized for four or five days. 
It does not name the Martha Gellhorn Prize for 
Journalism, neglects any mention of other awards, 
and omits entirely Omer’s meetings with 
Parliament Members in multiple countries. It 
fails to report the statement by the former ambassador from The Netherlands:

"This is by no means an isolated incident, but 
part of a long-term strategy to demolish 
Palestinian social, economic and cultural life 
... I am aware of the possibility that Mohammed 
Omer might be murdered by Israeli snipers or bomb attack in the near future.”

The international organization Reporters Without 
Borders reported issued a condemnation of the 
attack, stating that in the ten days preceding 
Omer’s incident alone, it had recorded five 
incidents of “wrongful arrest” of journalists by 
Israel, and that one journalist was still being 
held. None of this was in Laub’s article.

All of the missing material, of course, would 
serve to add credibility to Omer’s statements. 
Perhaps this pattern of omission was a coincidence.

Early in the story, while admitting that 
Palestinians complain about “rough” treatment at 
the border (a considerable understatement), Laub 
seems to go out of her way to discredit Omer’s 
description of being forcibly strip-searched, by 
writing: “However, Omer's allegation of being 
forced to strip naked appeared unusual."

The Strip-Searching “Secret”

This is a bizarre statement.

As Dion Nissenbaum, Jerusalem bureau chief for 
McClatchy Newspapers,  wrote last year, “While 
Israeli security won't admit it, it is a widely 
accepted secret that Palestinians and Arabs
are 
routinely subjected to intense, hours-long 
questioning that can include strip searches.”

Is it possible that AP is not in on this secret?

The reality is that frequent, random humiliation 
by Israeli soldiers and officials is part of the 
Palestinian experience. Numerous degrading strip 
searches – some of them particularly grotesque – 
have been forced on Palestinian men, women, and 
children of all ages for decades.

In addition, Israeli officials periodically strip 
search others whenever, it appears, they wish, including:

    * The British Consul General  (Israeli media 
reported that her search was “prolonged, needless 
and humiliating” and that she was “visibly upset);
    * An American holocaust survivor (she was treated to a “cavity search”);
    * Sixteen Christian evangelicals rounded up at gunpoint;
    * Journalists from around the world (an 
Argentinian journalist wrote: “
 they made me go 
to another office and strip naked. An official 
came in stands next to me, while I’m naked, with 
a machine gun in his hand
” A Swiss reporter was 
forced to remove her pants in public and stand in 
her underwear, hands raised, in front of an x-ray machine);
    * A wheel-chair bound New Jersey woman with 
cerebral palsy whose sanitary pad was confiscated, humiliating her publicly;
    * An American doctoral student, who was also 
subjected to a cavity search
  and the list goes on and on.

Yet, somehow, AP missed all of these. In fact, 
amazingly, a LexisNexis search of Associated 
Press stories over the past 10 years, using the 
search terms “Israel” and “strip search,” turns 
up only one result – a few stories on a hunger 
strike by Palestinian prisoners protesting 
against, among other things, their daily strip searches by Israeli guards.

Since we think it’s unfair for AP to be excluded 
from what others in the region know, we compiled 
a very partial list of reports about Israeli 
strip-searches, with excerpts from each, and 
emailed AP the 25-page document. We asked for a 
correction and received the following response: 
"This acknowledges receipt of your e-mail. We 
have no further comment at this time." Our 
request for an interview was "respectfully declined."

Following are just a few of the stories on this 
topic that AP never reported to the thousands of 
newspapers, radio and television stations that 
rely on it for their foreign news.  The entire 
document is available on the 
<http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/strip-searches.html>If 
Americans Knew website.

     * In 2007 the Palestinian Minister of 
Women's Affairs issued a statement protesting the 
policy of Israeli soldiers taking Palestinian 
women “to separate rooms in the checkpoint and 
being forced to remove all clothes, to become 
fully naked." The minister demanded that the UN 
and the international community provide security for Palestinian women.

     * Even the New York Times (which justified 
it) reported about the Allenby border in 1987: 
“Before any visitor gets in, however, he must go 
through a stringent security check at the Israeli 
terminal. Besides being examined by metal 
detectors, each visitor must undergo a private strip search
”

     * A University of Utah law student describes 
a PhD student conducting research in the region 
who was detained at the border crossing for six 
hours, “Then a female guard conducted a 
strip/cavity search while two male guards observed.”

     * A British researcher reports: “While men 
have also reported forms of sexual torture in 
jail, women prisoners are particularly vulnerable 
to this as a form of humiliation by their 
captors. Women are forced to strip naked in front 
of guards, many of whom are male, and subjected 
to brutal body searches. Many women prisoners 
have detailed sexual assault by Israeli military 
and prison staff. On some occasions women are 
detained as a way of threatening or putting 
pressure on a male member of the family.

     * A woman trying to reach a hospital 
reports: “
the labour pains grew stronger. I saw 
a lot of soldiers in front of me. I called out at 
them using the word “baby” which I think some 
understood. They started to talk to me in Hebrew 
as they pointed the guns towards me. They used 
signs and gestures. I understood that they wanted 
me to show them how pregnant I was which I did. 
One soldier asked me to take off my robe, which I 
did. But it was not sufficient and he asked me to 
remove the T-shirt and the trousers. I had no 
choice and I was ready to go as far as that in 
order to get to the hospital before it was late. 
He asked me to take off my underwear which I did. 
After this humiliation, they fetched a stretcher 
from one of the tanks. I was naked. I was carried 
to a tank and was given intravenous glucose into 
my arm. A few minutes later, they brought my 
father-in-law inside the tank. They drove for 
almost half an hour. I was thinking they were 
taking me to a nearby hospital but it turns out 
they were taking us back to the Huwwara 
checkpoint. We were taken out of the tank and 
were laid nude on the stretchers for almost one hour
”

     * Reuters reported: “Three Israeli soldiers 
forced a Palestinian man to strip naked at 
gunpoint and walk like a dog in a West Bank city 
under curfew
A Reuters photographer snapped 
Yasser Sharaf, 25, standing naked in a cold, 
muddy street in Nablus on Sunday as two men were 
handing him clothes to put on and two Israeli 
armoured vehicles were pulling away from the scene.”

     * Reporters who entered Nablus after the 
Israeli invasion of 2002 quoted from an interview 
with one of the inhabitants: “The men were then 
driven to a nearby yard, ordered to strip naked, 
and made to lie face down in the dirt. While my 
neighbor Jamal Sabar was taking off his pants, they shot him dead
”

     *  “A soldier inside the jeep ordered me to 
raise my hands and get out of the car and said, 
‘take off your shirt.’ I did; then he said, ‘and 
the pants.’ I did; then he said, ‘the undershirt 
and underwear.’ I begged him not to force me; and 
he said, ‘I’ll shoot you.’ And all the soldiers 
pointed their guns at me. I took off my 
underclothes and stood naked in front of 
everybody. He ordered, ‘proceed with your hands 
up.’ I came up to him and he gave me a 
transparent plastic bag to cover myself. He 
blindfolded me and made me sit 20 meters away. 
Then the soldier shouted at a passenger called 
Islam 'Abed al-Sheikh Ibrahim, 18, who was 
sitting in the front seat, and ordered him to get 
out of the car. He told the soldier that his leg 
was broken, but the soldier insisted. He Islam 
got out and stood on his crutches. The soldier 
ordered him to take off his clothes. He tried by 
failed. The soldier came to me and removed the 
binding off my eyes and told me at gunpoint to go 
and help him take off his clothes. I went and 
helped the passenger take off all his clothes. 
The soldier told me to help him walk to the 
soldier. We walked up and he gave me another 
nylon bag for Islam. Then, he told us to sit on 
the ground. Soon after, the soldier ordered 
another passenger, Yasser Rasheed al-Sheikh 
Ibrahim,60, to get out of the car and take off his clothes like us
”

     * The Guardian described an incident in 
which a commander was “awaiting a court martial 
on several charges, including ordering the boy to 
strip naked, holding a burning paper under his 
testicles, threatening to ram a bottle into his 
anus and threatening to shoot him
”

     * “We were mostly older people, sick and 
wounded. We had nine handicapped people with us, 
three were from the same family, sons of Abu 
Ibrahim. Some of us were too old, they were 
senile. When they told them ‘go left’ they would 
go right, but they stripped them naked anyway. I 
tried to help them as much as I could. I was the 
only one who spoke Hebrew
Close to us was a group 
of young men. They were handcuffed, naked and 
lying on their stomachs. The Israeli tanks would 
pass by them so fast, only forty centimeters away from their heads."

     *  “Other residents described how young men 
were stripped naked and then shot. Yusuf Shalabi, 
a young man from the camp explained how the 
Israeli soldiers denied medical treatment to the 
wounded, ‘
I remember this nightmare very well. 
It is very difficult to talk about it. I remember 
them stripping the people naked, they would 
handcuff them and blindfold them. I remember 
seeing two wounded men, one was wounded in the 
shoulder and the other in the leg. They were 
screaming in pain and the soldiers would not allow them to be treated.’”

Incredibly, AP seems to have missed all of these, 
and more. As a result, Americans have little idea 
of the life is like for Paleestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Moreover, strip searches are just the tip of the 
iceberg. According to an Israeli government 
report released in 2000 (five years after it had 
been written) Shin Bet “used systematic torture 
against Palestinians and regularly lied about 
it.” An Israeli human rights organization 
estimated that 85 percent of Palestinian 
detainees had been subjected to torture.   In 
2002 Foreign Service Journal carried a major 
expose on Israel torturing American citizens. AP 
missed this Foreign Service Journal expose – as 
did, therefore, every newspaper in the country.

AP’s Ownership

AP is a cooperative. That means that every single 
newspaper, radio station, and television station 
that uses AP news stories is an owner of AP. This 
includes Democracy Now, which apart from a report 
on Mohammed Omer also seems to have covered this subject minimally, if at all.

It is time for all these news media, and for 
their readers, listeners, and viewers, to demand 
that AP provide the full story.

Americans have long given Israel, the size of New 
Jersey, far more of our tax money than to any 
other nation on earth. It is time to end the 
cover up. Americans need to know how Israel is using our money.

Alison Weir is executive director of 
<http://ifamericansknew.org/>If Americans Knew 
(which found in a statistical 
<http://ifamericansknew.org/media/ap-report.html>study 
that in 2004 AP had covered Israeli children’s 
deaths at rates 7 times greater than they had 
reported Palestinian deaths). The full document 
listing Israeli strip searches can be viewed at 
<http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/strip-searches.html>http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/strip-searches.html. 
<http://www.ifamericansknew.org/about_us/dvd.html>DVDs 
containing a short 
<http://www.ifamericansknew.org/about_us/easiesttargets.html>video 
about Israeli strip searching of women and 
children are available for readers wishing to 
educate their local media and community on the 
information that AP is choosing not to report. 
The Washington Report has created a 
<http://mediausa.net/wrmea/petition/>petition on 
the incident for people to sign.


Omer’s complete statement can be read at:

“British consul strip searched at Israeli PM's 
office,” Rory, The Guardian, March 28, 2007

“Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli 
Checkpoints: Strip-Searching Children,” Alison 
Weir, CounterPunch, March 15, 2007; Video 
interview: The Easiest Targets: 
<http://www.ifamericansknew.org/about_us/easiesttargets.html>http://www.ifamericansknew.org/about_us/easiesttargets.html

“Israelis arrest 16 from US in roundup of 
Christians,” Charles M. Sennott, The Boston Globe, October 26, 1999, Pg. A2



<http://peoplesgeography.com/2006/09/01/israeli-security-forces-kidnap-argentine-journalist/>http://peoplesgeography.com/ 


http://www.fpa.org.il/?categoryId=422

“Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli 
Checkpoints: Strip-Searching Children,” Alison 
Weir, CounterPunch, March 15, 2007; Video 
interview: The Easiest Targets: 
<http://www.ifamericansknew.org/about_us/easiesttargets.html>http://www.ifamericansknew.org/about_us/easiesttargets.html

http://www.law.utah.edu/blogs/show-entry.asp?EntryID=252

<http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=23480>http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=23480 


   “ALLENBY BRIDGE JOURNAL; A 15-Yard Span Over a 
Great Divide,” Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, July 18, 1987

<http://www.law.utah.edu/blogs/show-entry.asp?EntryID=252>http://www.law.utah.edu/blogs/show-entry.asp?EntryID=252

“Israel’s Palestinian Prisoners: The Forgotten 
Facts,” Isabelle Humphries, Researcher – Nazareth 
<http://www.islamonline.net/english/Muslim_Affairs/Asia/PoliticsEconomy/2006/07/01.shtml>http://www.islamonline.net/

“Israel’s Implementation of the UN Convention on 
the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination 
Against Women (CEDAW) in the Occupied Palestinian 
Territories (OPT), May, 2005, Al-Haq: Law in the 
Service of Man, the Palestinian Centre for Human 
rights (PCHR), and the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC)
<http://www.pchrgaza.org/special/OPT%20CEDAW%20Main%20Review.pdf>http://www.pchrgaza.org/special/OPT%20CEDAW%20Main%20Review.pdf 


“Israelis Make Palestinian Strip Naked,” Reuters, Nov. 25, 2002

“Jenin: Lying Down On Broken Glass, Crushing 
Bones,” April 16, 2002 (IslamOnline & News 
Agencies) 
<http://www.islamonline.net/english/News/2002-04/16/article40.shtml>http://www.islamonline.net/english/News/2002-04/16/article40.shtml 


“Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations 
in the Occupied Palestinian    Territory,” 01 - 
07 September 2005, 
<http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/2005/08-09-2005.htm>http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/2005/08-09-2005.htm 


“Commander charged with torturing Palestinian 
boy,” Chris McGreal, The Guardian, October 22, 2002

“Stripping Palestinians has Become Common 
Practice: Eyewitness Accounts,” Suzanne Russ, 
Palestine Chronicle, November 26, 2002, 
<http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/strippingcommon.html>http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/strippingcommon.html 


  “Stripping Palestinians has Become Common 
Practice: Eyewitness Accounts,” By Suzanne Russ, 
Palestine Chronicle, November 26, 2002, 
<http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/strippingcommon.html>http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/strippingcommon.html 


“Report: Palestinian suspects mistreated by 
Israeli captors,” Joel Greenberg, Chicago Tribune, May 6, 2007

“Arab-Americans in Israel: What ‘Special 
Relationship’?” Jerri Bird, Foreign Service Journal, June, 2002




Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

415 863-9977

www.Freedomarchives.org  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://freedomarchives.org/pipermail/news_freedomarchives.org/attachments/20080729/c8ea743f/attachment.htm>