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Thursday, October 25, 2018
Ahed Tamimi says all Palestinians should slap Israeli troops
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA Middle East media watchdog publishes video of Ahed Tamimi calling on all Palestinians to slap Israeli troops.
Tamimi, 17, was released from an Israeli prison in July after serving an eight-month sentence for slapping an Israel Defense Forces soldier in the West Bank village she is from.
The teenager become a Palestinian icon after she was arrested over the incident in December and since her release has been touring Europe and the Middle East.
“The world should not be shocked or taken aback by a Palestinian slapping an [Israeli] soldier… we should always be slapping soldiers, wherever they may be,” Tamimi told a Tunisian radio station earlier this month, according to a translation of her remarks by MEMRI.
Tamimi went on to say all Israeli troops should be slapped, irrespective of their actions.
“They occupied our land and they shoot at little children and target homes and people,” she claimed. “Everyone should be slapping soldiers.”
In the radio interview, Tamimi also vowed to “continue on the path of the martyrs” and said she was prepared to die “for the sake of liberating Palestine.”
MEMRI also publishes a separate interview Tamimi gave to Tunisian television, in which she called for “the liberation of Palestine in its entirety.”
Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi: We Should Always Slap Israeli Soldiers Whether They Did Anything or Not pic.twitter.com/sT6rQwA6Az
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) October 25, 2018
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