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Regarded as a "provocateur" by Israel and turned into an international symbol of Palestinian resistance after appearing in a video confronting soldiers, Ahed Tamimi, 17, left the prison today after serving near eight-month conviction by a court
Detained on December 19 while she was 16, the video in which she appears with her mother Nariman, also released today, and her cousin in her home in Nabi Saleh, in the occupied West Bank, have become viral and have been charged with 12 counts, including badaulting security forces, throwing stones, taking part in violent protests, threats and incitement .
The Israeli court ruled him "too dangerous" until the issuance of he was sentenced to eight months in prison for aggravated badault and aggravation, among other indictments.
For his lawyer Gaby Lasky, Israel ruled with this case, which sparked a high international interest, to "deter" other young people from following his example.
P ero his actions and, also, his arrest, led to turning him into a mark of Palestinian activism, which compares him every day to Joan of Arc, Anne Frank or Nelson Mandela; Ahed, who dreams of becoming a football player, said that he had killed hours in prison reading novels, preparing for the examination of "tawjihi", sportsman and looking for the company of his mother, Nariman, also imprisoned in Ha Sharon.
His father, Basem, a militant and former prisoner of Israel, was able to visit them only twice during these seven months because he badures Efe, the Israeli authorities refused him the rest of the permits.
The incident with the soldiers filmed on December 15 is only the latest in a series of clashes between the young woman with long blond hair – doing in this area – and the Israeli security forces
Following the harsh experience of the second Intifada, the city of Nabi Saleh in the West Bank joined in 2009 the movement of "non-violent resistance", with demonstrations against the appropriation of the Jewish settlement of Halamish from a source used by the inhabitants of the village for generations.
In this context, Ahed, a nine-year-old girl, was faced with the occupation: arrests, soldiers on the streets, cannons of smelly water, roaring grenades, tear gas, retreaded bullets and even live ammunition like the one that killed his uncle Rushdie, 31 years old, in 2012.
Nabi Saleh became an icon that activists and spectators from all over the world who crossed the West Bank came to meet a family that is already part of the recent history of Palestine.
The Tamimi were portrayed in 2013 in a New York Times article that raised whether it would be in this small village of 600 inhabitants, surrounded by settlements, where the Third Intifada would explode.
The striking mane, the clear eyes and the congested face of Ahed's anger were disseminated in the media for years, the same as the rest of the city's children, who by clan decision were included in protest activities "to help them deal with their reality".
Thus, minors prevent or badist in the arrest of parents or soldiers
Before them, Ahed shows an unjust integrity and seriousness of a teenager who in his spare time plays football or organizes Rihanna's choreography with her cousin Jana, another "girl phenomenon" of the city which, at eleven o'clock She is known as "the youngest journalist in the world".
His attitude earned him honorable mentions of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas or Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and inspired the Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick. author of the iconic black and white portrait of Che Guevara, to turn her into a poster hero under the caption: "There is a real Wonder Woman."
The case mobilized American writers, artists and scholars, among them Rosario Dawson or Angela Davis, is followed in social networks under the #FreeAhed hastag and gave visibility to the 291 Palestinian minors locked up in Israeli jails.
"He always says the same thing when he asks her what he wants said his father, who believes that this young" shy, calm, brave and strong "has become famous, among other reasons, because with his blue eyes and blond hair "strikes western mentality".
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