RAMALLAH, West Bank — The family of convicted Palestinian teen soldier-slapper Ahed Tamimi releases excerpts from a video in which an Israeli interrogator threatens the then-16-year-old with the arrest of her relatives if she refuses to cooperate. The interrogator also comments on her body, fair skin and “eyes of an angel.”
The interrogator, said to be an agent of the Israeli military intelligence branch, at times moves within inches of the teenager, who doesn’t respond and repeatedly asserts her right to remain silent.
The Israeli military says a complaint of improper conduct by the investigator, filed by Tamimi’s lawyer, has been handed to the Justice Ministry and is being “thoroughly examined.”
Ahed’s father, Bassem, tells reporters that the video is evidence of Israel’s failure to break his daughter. He portrays Tamimi as a symbol of resistance to Israel’s 51-year-old military control of the West Bank. Her silence under pressure shows that “we are not victims, we are fighters for the cause of freedom of our people,” he says.
Ahed Tamimi is serving an eight-month prison term — the result of a plea deal — for slapping and kicking two Israeli soldiers outside her West Bank home in mid-December.
— AP
Bassem Tamimi, right, sits during a press conference while a video plays on the screen, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on April 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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