Israeli women trafficked abroad.

It has long been acknowledged that significant numbers of young women are being trafficked into Israel for sexual exploitation, but now a new trend is emerging – Israeli women being trafficked into forced prostitution in England, Croatia, Singapore, Thailand and other countries. Member of the Knesset (Israeli parliament), Zehava Gal-On said that the country was unprepared for this new aspect of human trafficking.
“There has long been an active ring of people using Israel as a stopping point in the trafficking of women from foreign countries to other foreign countries… what we are seeing now is Israeli women themselves being targeted and shipped to other places,”
“There are very clear, specific cases of Israeli women being used in human trafficking. There are other cases, of a girl whose father takes her places and forces her to give sexual favors for pay, which are less clear. But, you cannot tell me that this is not human trafficking.”
The Israeli Hotline for Migrant Workers said that they had documented nine cases of Israeli women being trafficked abroad in the last six months.
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