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Pregnant U.S. war photographer strip-searched after she asked not to go through x-ray machine at Israeli border
By Rose Parker
Last updated at 2:57 PM on 29th November 2011
Strip search: Lynsey Addario was passing from Gaza into Israel when she was subjected to the 'humiliating' procedure
A pregnant U.S. photographer has claimed she was strip-searched and humiliated by Israeli soldiers during a security check.
Lynsey Addario had requested not to go through an x-ray machine as she entered Israel from the Gaza Strip because of concerns for her unborn baby.
Instead, she wrote in a letter to the ministry, she was forced through the machine three times as soldiers watched and laughed from above.
Strip search: Lynsey Addario was passing from Gaza into Israel when she was subjected to the 'humiliating' procedure
The 38-year-old said she was then taken into a room where she was ordered by a female worker to strip down to her underwear.
Miss Addario, a Pulitzer Prize winner who was on assignment for the New York Times, said she had never been treated with such blatant cruelty.
She has now received an apology from Israels Defence Ministry. Officials said that the search had followed procedues but noted that her request to avoid the X-ray machine had not been properly relayed.
We would like to apologise for this particular mishap in co-ordination and any trouble it may subsequently have caused to those involved, they said.
It said that security is tight on the border with Gaza in order to prevent terror from targeting and reaching Israel's citizens.
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The defence ministry has decided to hone the procedure for foreign journalists, it said.
The New York Times bureau chief in Israel, Ethan Bronner, welcomed the planned changes but said the newspaper remains shocked at the treatment Addario received and how long the investigation took.
Foreign journalists working in Israel have repeatedly complained of overly intrusive security checks by of Israeli authorities. Israel says the inspections are necessary measures.
Ms Addario has worked in 60 countries and is based in India.
Miss Addario in Libya: She was sexually assaulted by Gaddafi's troops earlier this year
Miss Addario in Libya: She was sexually assaulted by Gaddafi's troops earlier this year
In March, she was one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya by forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi and held for six days.
Speaking after her release, she said she was repeatedly sexually assaulted during her ordeal.
After she and her colleagues were hauled out of a car at a checkpoint near the eastern city of Ajdabiya, one of the Libyans punched her in the face and laughed at her.
Then I started crying and he was laughing more, she told the Times after her release.
One man grabbed her breasts the start of a pattern of sexual harassment she endured over the ensuing 48 hours.
There was a lot of groping, she said. Every man who came in contact with us basically felt every inch of my body short of what was under my clothes.
As she was being driven away from Ajdabiya, she said another of her captors stroked her head and told her repeatedly that she was going to be killed.
He was caressing my head in this sick way, this tender way, saying, "Youre going to die tonight. Youre going to die tonight", she added.
Miss Addario was with Anthony Shadid, the papers Beirut bureau chief, photographer Tyler Hicks and reporter and videographer Stephen Farrell when they were seized while leaving the scene of fighting between rebels and Libyan government forces because they decided it had become too dangerous.
Read more: Lynsey Addario strip searched on Israel border | Mail Online
Read more: Lynsey Addario strip searched on Israel border | Mail Online
By Rose Parker
Last updated at 2:57 PM on 29th November 2011
Strip search: Lynsey Addario was passing from Gaza into Israel when she was subjected to the 'humiliating' procedure
A pregnant U.S. photographer has claimed she was strip-searched and humiliated by Israeli soldiers during a security check.
Lynsey Addario had requested not to go through an x-ray machine as she entered Israel from the Gaza Strip because of concerns for her unborn baby.
Instead, she wrote in a letter to the ministry, she was forced through the machine three times as soldiers watched and laughed from above.
Strip search: Lynsey Addario was passing from Gaza into Israel when she was subjected to the 'humiliating' procedure
The 38-year-old said she was then taken into a room where she was ordered by a female worker to strip down to her underwear.
Miss Addario, a Pulitzer Prize winner who was on assignment for the New York Times, said she had never been treated with such blatant cruelty.
She has now received an apology from Israels Defence Ministry. Officials said that the search had followed procedues but noted that her request to avoid the X-ray machine had not been properly relayed.
We would like to apologise for this particular mishap in co-ordination and any trouble it may subsequently have caused to those involved, they said.
It said that security is tight on the border with Gaza in order to prevent terror from targeting and reaching Israel's citizens.
More...
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The defence ministry has decided to hone the procedure for foreign journalists, it said.
The New York Times bureau chief in Israel, Ethan Bronner, welcomed the planned changes but said the newspaper remains shocked at the treatment Addario received and how long the investigation took.
Foreign journalists working in Israel have repeatedly complained of overly intrusive security checks by of Israeli authorities. Israel says the inspections are necessary measures.
Ms Addario has worked in 60 countries and is based in India.
Miss Addario in Libya: She was sexually assaulted by Gaddafi's troops earlier this year
Miss Addario in Libya: She was sexually assaulted by Gaddafi's troops earlier this year
In March, she was one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya by forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi and held for six days.
Speaking after her release, she said she was repeatedly sexually assaulted during her ordeal.
After she and her colleagues were hauled out of a car at a checkpoint near the eastern city of Ajdabiya, one of the Libyans punched her in the face and laughed at her.
Then I started crying and he was laughing more, she told the Times after her release.
One man grabbed her breasts the start of a pattern of sexual harassment she endured over the ensuing 48 hours.
There was a lot of groping, she said. Every man who came in contact with us basically felt every inch of my body short of what was under my clothes.
As she was being driven away from Ajdabiya, she said another of her captors stroked her head and told her repeatedly that she was going to be killed.
He was caressing my head in this sick way, this tender way, saying, "Youre going to die tonight. Youre going to die tonight", she added.
Miss Addario was with Anthony Shadid, the papers Beirut bureau chief, photographer Tyler Hicks and reporter and videographer Stephen Farrell when they were seized while leaving the scene of fighting between rebels and Libyan government forces because they decided it had become too dangerous.
Read more: Lynsey Addario strip searched on Israel border | Mail Online
Read more: Lynsey Addario strip searched on Israel border | Mail Online
