Welcome to Israel! With a Swiss-Palestinian friend we decided to spend 2 weeks in Israel Palestine. In our luggage we had several kilos of toys and clothes for the children living in palestinian refugee camps. Our airplane landed at Ben Gourion Airport on Saturday the 29th of June at 3 AM. Stepping out of the airplane, before we reached the bus taking us to the airport, 2 customs swooped down on arabic looking people (including my friend) to bombard them with inquisitive questions on their travel, nationality, origin, and so on. At the airport, after the passport check, we've been questioned separately by a "security officer" who pretended to know that we were coming to Israel to take part in a demonstration (which we didn't know anything about) and despite our denials he decided to expell us, without telling it clearly to us. During several hours we were subject to several questioning (some even racist towards my friend), diverse intimidations (obligation to be accompanied by a customs to go to toilets or to smoke a cigarette) and classical searching of the luggage (each object being meticulously examined, even sanitary towels and tampons). Whenever we asked if we'd have the visa the customs officers refused to answer, maintaining uncertainty (another technique of intimidation). At about 6:30 AM policemen accompanied us by car to the "waiting room", they assured us that we could make phonecalls from there. They drove us to the border of the airport area, to a bunker. We asked if they planned to close that armoured door, they replied "of course!" I refused to get inside and a policeman shouted at me "if you refuse I'll force you to enter" what he did at once dragging me violently inside. I stopped to resist but he continued to pull me with violence, ready to beat me. The socalled "waiting room" was a concrete bunker, without any window; men and women were confined in separate locked rooms; there were just some dirty old mattresses on the ground, toilets; mobile phone couldn't get connected to the network, and they refused to let us phone from outside, nor to use their phone; the only available drink was tap water and the meals they served us were disgusting (half rotten fruits,...) In short: a prison. Luckily there were empty seats on the next flight to ZŸrich at 16:15 PM and we could quit this sordid place after 9 hours of emprisonment. The other prisoners were not so lucky as some of them had to wait untill the next day to get a flight back... Among the expelled (we were 10 emprisoned that night) there were 2 young polish girls who had nothing to do with politics and had save money for this touristic trip in Israel and didn't understand at all why they were expelled... The questioning and searching methods, and also the conditions of emprisonment and the fact that they prevented us to phone are scandalous. Besides, racism is omnipresent in the whole procedure: - on the entry form to enter Israel you are asked not only your "country of citizenship", but also your "country of birth" - on the short way between the airplane and the bus there are 2 or 3 customs deliberately choosing arabic looking people to ask them inquisitive questions - during one of those several questioning, one customs asked my friend his religion. By what right do they ask such questions? Why didn't he ask the same question to me (I'm whiter than snow)? And what would happen if Israeli tourists arriving at Swiss border would be subject to such treatment: multiple questionings sometimes even racist, arbitrary refusal to give visa, emprisonment with impossibility to phone, then expulsion. What would happen? How would they describe such ill-treatments?