A military court extendeds the remand of 16-year-old Palestinian Ahed Tamimi, who was filmed slapping IDF soldiers, by an additional five days.
Tamimi’s mother Nariman and cousin Nour were also featured in the widely shared video. Namiran’s extension was also extended by five days but the court ordered Nour be released tomorrow.
Footage from the December 15 encounter in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh shows Tamimi and her cousin Nour Tamimi approaching two Israeli soldiers, before shoving, kicking and slapping them, while filming on their mobile phones. They then move backwards after Nariman arrives and begins pushing the soldiers, herself.
The armed soldiers did not respond in the face of what appeared to be an attempt to provoke them.
Ahed Tamimi (2nd-R) appears at the military court at the West Bank’s Ofer prison on December 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)
Ahed has been accused of “assaulting a soldier, harming the security of the area, incitement, and other felonies,” according to court documents.
In her version of the incident, shared in front of the court during a hearing last week, Ahed said that the same soldiers featured in the video had shot her cousin in the head with a rubber bullet an hour prior to the filmed encounter. “Then I saw the same soldiers who hit my cousin, this time in front of my house. I could not keep quiet and I responded as I did,” the 16-year-old testified.
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