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The Easiest Targets: Women and Children
9 Jan 2009

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Israeli border security routinely conduct strip searches to humiliate Palestinian women and children returning to their homeland. The practice is aimed at discouraging Palestinians from visiting their homeland and is one piece of a larger policy aimed at severing all Palestinian ties to their native land. Such a policy constitutes ethnic cleansing.

These strip searches include cavity searches.

To watch part two of "The Easiest Targets", please click here.

You can find this page online at http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/94.19.

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