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Nabi Saleh / Tel Aviv (dpa) – Palestinian Ahed Tamimi, 17, was released after nearly eight months in Israel and immediately announced continued resistance. "My message is that our resistance struggle will continue, especially our fight for equal rights."
The 17-year-old said this to Nabi Saleh, her hometown in the West Bank. Peace can exist only "when all live together without borders and without occupation".
The 17-year-old man kicked and kicked an Israeli soldier in front of the camera in Nabi Saleh in December. His mother and a parent also sought confrontation with two soldiers. Tamimi and his mother Nariman spent nearly eight months in an Israeli prison. Both were released Sunday.
For Palestinians, the teenager with long dark blond curls is considered a symbol of resistance to the Israeli occupation
. Israel sees Tamimi as a provocateur.
Tamimi thanked his mother at a press conference. "Your ability to stay strong has helped keep going," Tamimi said. "The prison was hard and humiliating, but we managed to turn it into a clbadroom."
"I hope that the campaigns that have been organized for me will continue, for all children still in prison," she said. According to the Israeli organization Betselem Human Rights, 291 Palestinian miners were still detained by Israel at the end of May.
The Human Rights Organization Amnesty International called Tamimi's release a "bitter-sweet moment" as many other minors are still imprisoned in Israel.
Tamimi's mother, Nariman, said, "Our children are the future of our struggle." Tamimi's father, Bbadem, said his daughter was "forced" to slap another soldier in the face of clashes with the Israeli army in Nabi Saleh.
Back in his hometown of Nabi Saleh north of Ramallah, his family and friends were encouraged by his family and friends after their release from Sharon Prison. Subsequently, the women visited the grave of former Palestinian President Ybader Arafat in Ramallah.
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas also received the youth and their families in his official residence in Ramallah. Abbas praised her as "a model for the Palestinian struggle for freedom, independence and a separate state." Tamimi embodies non-violent resistance, which is "an ideal and central weapon in the fight against repression by the Israeli occupation".
Alon Schwartzer of the Israeli organization right Im Tirzu said that Tamimi was a "soldier in a family of terrorists".
The prosecution and defense had agreed to an eight-month prison sentence in a case in March. While the media spoke of a slap in the charge of a punch, that was the speech. On video images, which spread rapidly over the Internet, the process is hard to see. It is clear in any case that she hit the soldier in the face.
A few hours earlier, a Tamimis cousin had been seriously injured in the head by protests from a hard rubber bullet. According to the family, she was upset when she approached the two soldiers.
Ahed Tamimi has often been involved in protests before. In 2012, a photo of the girl was walking around the world, threatening an Israeli soldier with a clenched fist. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presented him with a "prize for courage". Also on Sunday, Erdogan responded immediately to the release. He had telephoned Tamimi and praised her for her courage and her fight, reported the official Anadolu news agency.
Tamimi's Israeli lawyer, Gaby Lasky, sees a political motivation behind the arrest and punishment of Tamimi. The trial against the young Palestinian helped to "clarify the madness of the Israeli occupation," she said. "Bringing minors to military courts is not the way to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians."
Meanwhile, an Israeli police spokesman confirmed on Sunday that two Italian graffiti artists and a Palestinian had been arrested the night before. They had painted a portrait of Ahed Tamimi on the separation wall to Israel near Bethlehem.
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