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Jerusalem – A Palestinian teenager who spent eight months in prison for slapping two Israeli soldiers, a filmed episode that made her an icon for the Palestinians, was released Sunday, a spokeswoman said.
The spokeswoman for 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 the Israeli authorities from that prison to at a checkpoint leading to the West Bank, where both live.
" They have just left the prison ," AFP spokesman Assaf Librati told AFP.
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.
The images 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 Palestinian territory occupied by 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 21 after an agreement of " to plead guilty ", the teenager with long blond curls celebrated her 17 years in prison.
Born into a family known for her struggle against the Israeli occupation, she had already been involved in a series of incidents with soldiers, whose images had traveled around the world.
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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