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A Palestinian teenager released by Israel on Sunday after serving a prison sentence for hitting and beating a soldier said that the fight against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank should continue.
Ahed Tamimi (17) became a heroine for the Palestinians incident last December outside her home in Nabi Saleh, a village that campaigned for years against Israel's land grabbing, leading to clashes with the Israeli army and Jewish settlers.
The Israelis considered the incident relayed by Tamimi's mother.
Tamimi, who was 16 at the time of her arrest, was charged with 12 counts, including aggravated badault. In March, she pleaded guilty to a charge of badault and was sentenced to eight months in prison since her arrest in December.
Wearing a black and white Arabic plaid scarf, Tamimi greeted dozens of "-people in brief remarks in front of the home of a villager from Nabi Saleh killed by Israeli forces.
"From the house of this martyr, I say: the resistance continues until the occupation is removed," she told reporters. "All inmates in prison are strong, and I thank all those who supported me while I was in jail."
She was scheduled to hold a press conference Sunday afternoon.
Future State
Palestinians want the West Bank for a future state, with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. Most countries consider Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal, which Israel contests.
US-sponsored negotiations on the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel have been stalled since 2014.
Mahmoud Abbas in a statement issued by the news agency Wafa official after meeting Tamimi and her mother, described the teenager as "a model of peaceful civil resistance …, proving to the world that our Palestinian people will remain firm and constant on their lands, regardless of the sacrifice"
Tamimi's case caught the attention of the world and Amnesty International said after his conviction that his sentence was in contradiction with international law, Amnesty said that the imprisonment of one must only be used as a last resort for the shortest possible period – Reuters
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