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Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi Freed from Israeli Prison

HeadlineJul 30, 2018

Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi has been freed from an Israeli prison after serving an 8-month term. The 17-year-old activist became a hero to Palestinians after a viral video showed her slapping a soldier near her family’s home in the occupied West Bank. The incident came just after Tamimi learned her cousin had been gravely wounded by an Israeli soldier who shot him in the head using a rubber-coated steel bullet. This is Tamimi speaking after her release.

Ahed Tamimi: “My plans for the future are to continue my university studies. I will study law to address the causes of the country in all of the international forums and to represent the prisoners’ causes and to talk about it to the whole world and in the international courts.”

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