The 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi has been arrested on Tuesday and detained for 10 days during a raid on her home in the village of Nabi Saleh in the West Bank. In a video shot on Friday, two soldiers blocked the way of Tamimi’s home in the village of Nabi Saleh in the West Bank while she, and her cousin, approached them and started pushing them to move away. Nariman Tamimi, Tamimi’s mother, has also been arrested by Israeli occupation forces as she went to the police station to support her daughter, reported Bassem Tamimi on Facebook. Earlier this week, clashes erupted between Israeli forces and Palestinians who were protesting the Israeli occupation and Trump’s decision to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem. Tamimi is already well-known for her protests against the Israeli occupation and her defense of Palestinian rights under occupation. She is known for fighting the occupation soldier who assaulted her brother. She has spoken in Turkey, South Africa, and in the European Parliament in a conference earlier this year on women in Palestinian resistance. According to a report by DW, Tamimi was denied a visa by the State Department in Washington upon an invitation to speak…
Palestinian Ahed Tamimi Arrested by Israeli Occupation Forces, Detained for 10 Days
December 20, 2017
