What about the humiliating security checks that Aviva Shalit has to endure when she visits her son? Oop, forgot, she can't visit her son. She doesn't even know if her son is ALIVE. Until then, I don't care if these modest Mohammedan ladies have to strip down to their panties to make sure they don't slip their loved ones a shiv.

finally, kol hakavod

Just the facts, ma'am. A woman can secret in and easily retrieve from her person enough plastic explosive to cause some real harm. Whether or not she can pass it on under the watch of the prison personnel is immaterial. You can call it a biological hazard if you wish.

This is very good news. Either they were hiding something and did not want to be caught....or this is a new trend....rather than block Hamas visits, just subject visitors to the same checks as other prisons around the world do....the visitors will get frustrated, go home, and not return. Either way - it's a good plan.

and drugs, and even weapons. Every single Arab should be checked thoroughly.

I would visit him even if the strip search was humiliating . It seems a bit weird that they stop just because of this.

Such a deal! So she has to prove that she's not carrying plastic explosives into the jail. Don't like it? So don't go! Israel must protect itself from those who would kill them.

Smuggling into Israeli jails is far to easy and strip search should have been the policy for decades. At the very least as long as Gilad Shalit is a hostage there should be no family visits. Return Gilad if he is still alive then return him alive if he is dead as sadly he probably is then return his body and then we can talk about visits.

arabs complain that they are checked for weapons? are they surprised to get checked when their culture has produced more terrorists than any society in the history of the world?

don't listen to the complaints. who cares? Shalit situation merits no visits to pali prisoners. don't like it don't come to visit. Shalit doesn't make it home alive then just as they want 1000 released for Shalit then we should send back 1000 bodies if Shalit doesn't make it alive. Only kind of game these people understand, period!

These are the same people who justify blowing up a pizzeria full of families because they had to wait an extra 30 minutes at a roadblock outside Nablus....which they deem "humiliating". These people would kill a family member on a moment's notice to feed their pride, surely they would take a strip search at a prison to the nth degree of drama.

undress for a guard and watch someone puke. But when I visited Israel then, I was told you were out already (a lie). But the real reason for visiting you in the prison if I had been given the right information is that visiting the Lord in the prison, giving the Lord water to drink, giving the Lord food to eat, and clothing the Lord when that is needful is a critical factor to the Lord. Who is the Lord people should visit in prisons, give water to, food to, clothing to? The Lord is anyone who is part of the faith who is going to heaven. Oh, how I wanted to comfort you and tell you the Lord loves you and you are my darling because anyone who does not hate me must know the Lord and be a part of Him. R.

Wait a minute, they love terrorists?! And they still dare to whine...?

visit, plain, clear, simple and fair.