Two members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams have been refused entry into Israel, and deported by Israeli authorities.
One of them told the IMEMC that she was scheduled to be part of a Christian Peacemaker delegation to the Israeli-occupied Palestinian West Bank, which was planning to meet with Palestinian civil society groups and Christian leaders in the Holy Land.
But she and another member of the group were detained at the Israeli airport in Tel Aviv and denied entry, after a lengthy interrogation.
According to the American peace activist, she was singled out along with all other passengers of Arab descent who were on the flight. After a twelve-hour interrogation and several full-body searches, she was told that she was considered a ”˜security risk’ to the state of Israel, and put in a holding cell to await deportation.
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