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Ahed Tamimi, who was 16 at the time of his arrest, was sentenced to eight months in prison on March 21.
A Palestinian teenager who was spent eight months in prison for slapping two Israeli soldiers, a filmed episode that made her an icon for the Palestinians, was released Sunday, July 29, a spokesman said.
The spokesman of the Israeli prison where she was detained announced that 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi and her mother, also incarcerated as a result of the incident, were being transferred by Israeli authorities from that prison to a checkpoint leading to the West Bank , where both live. "They have just left the prison" said the spokesman, Assaf Librati. They are expected at a checkpoint near the Palestinian city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.
Ahed Tamimi was arrested on December 19, 2017, a few days after being filmed in a video that became viral on the internet.
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The footage showed her approaching her cousin Nour Tamimi of two Israeli soldiers leaning on a low wall in the courtyard of her house in Nabi Saleh, a village in the occupied Palestinian territory. Israel for more than 50 years
The two girls ask them to leave and then kick and punch them and slap them
Ahed Tamimi was 16 years old at the time of his arrest. Sentenced to eight months in prison on March 21st following an agreement of "pleading guilty" the teenager with long blond curls celebrated her 17 years in prison.
From a Famous family for his fight against the Israeli occupation, she had already been involved in a series of incidents with soldiers, whose images had circumnavigated the world.
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Palestinians praise Ahed Tamimi as an example of courage in the face of Israeli abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories. Many Israelis, for their part, consider it an example of how Palestinians encourage their children to hate.
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