The palestinian Ma’an News Agency (read: propaganda unit) reports on the “horrible” treatment that some palestinian women have been subjected to at checkpoints.
And by “horrible”, I mean extremely compassionate and sensitive.
The Israeli female soldiers at the Huwwara checkpoint, south of Nablus city in the north of the occupied West Bank, intend to search women wearing the face veil, the ‘niqab’, who wish to pass through the checkpoint.
One of the women wearing niqab told our Nablus correspondent, “The women soldiers asked the women in niqab for their identity cards and detained them to one side.”
They added that the female soldiers forced every woman wearing niqab to enter a special room near the checkpoint where they were body-searched.
The female soldiers asked the veiled women to uncover their faces and lift their clothes to reveal their abdomens while the female soldier stays outside the room and gives orders through a small opening in the door of the small room.
Notice how 1) the IDF soldiers were female, and 2) they stayed outside the room when the palestinian women were asked to reveal their abdomens. Clearly, the IDF were showing the utmost sensitivity while performing necessary security measures.
And yes, these security measures are necessary. The IDF asks the veiled palestinians to uncover their faces because – let’s face it – precedent shows they may be male terrorists. And revealing their abdomens is also necessary since precedent shows they may be female terrorists.
Thank you to Ma’an News Agency for (unintentionally) bringing the IDF’s sensitivity to our attention.
