Israel's Defence Ministry apologised for the treatment of a pregnant American news photographer who said she was strip-searched and humiliated by Israeli soldiers during a security check.
Lynsey Addario, who was on assignment for the New York Times, had requested that she not be forced 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".
She said she was then taken into a room where she was ordered to strip down to her underwear.
