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December 29, 2017

Palestinian Girl Faces Charges After Video of Her Slapping Israeli Soldier Goes Viral
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A 16-year-old Palestinian girl will face assault charges in an Israeli
military court, after a video of her slapping an Israeli soldier went
viral. Ahed Tamimi slapped the Israeli soldier two weeks ago, after
Israeli troops shot her 14-year-old brother in the head with a
rubber-coated steel bullet and fired tear gas canisters into her
family's home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. While the video of
Tamimi slapping the soldier has gone viral, Mondoweiss reports that the
soldier actually slapped the 16-year-old girl first, causing her to slap
back. This is Tamimi's father, activist Bassem Tamimi.

Bassem Tamimi: "The other issue is the support of people and a nation
who saw through the slap of Ahed as a morale. They saw their own will,
their aspiration, their desire, in this second, to slap the occupation.
It expressed the spirits of the Arabic, Palestinian and human street,
who desire at some point to erupt against the reality of injustice in a
moment of being broken."



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