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July 30, 2018

Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi Freed from Israeli Prison
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Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi has been freed from an Israeli prison
after serving an eight-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 is to continue my university
studies and I will study law to address the cause of my country in all
of the international forums, and to represent the prisoners' cause and
talk about it to the whole world and in the international courts."



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