Humiliation at check-points in West Bank

From Ma'an, April 6, 2009;

Tulkarem – Ma'an – Israeli soldiers forced Palestinian teenagers to strip naked in full view of other Palestinians waiting at a military checkpoint near the West Bank city of Tulkarem on Monday afternoon.

Witnesses told Ma'an that three soldiers forced the youths to remove their clothes, and were verbally mocking them.

The witnesses also reported long waits at the checkpoint.

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West Bank settlers attack Palestinians near Tulkarem

Today, Israeli settlers violently attacked buses transporting family members of Palestinian detainees trying to enter the Hadarim prison near Tulkarem. The attackers shouted slogans such as "death to Arabs and Palestinians". None of the prisoners' family members were, according to news reports, physically hurt, but the entire delegation was barred from visiting their detaineed family members.

Source: Maan News Agency