Ahed Tamimi

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Prominent actors, musicians, and authors demand Ahed Tamimi’s release

Dozens of major American actors, athletes, musicians, scholars, and political figures signed a statement published Monday by American human rights group, Dream Defenders, calling for the release of Ahed Tamimi. Tamimi, a 17-year-old Palestinian, was arrested in December following the publication of a video showing her pushing and slapping armed Israeli soldiers on the porch of her family’s home in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. Tamimi is set […]

today13 February 2018

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Free Ahed Tamimi campaign launched on her 17th birthday

Palestinian solidarity activists have urged all South Africans to get behind the Free Ahed Tamimi and All Child Prisoners campaign . The campaign was launched in Cape Town today, as Ahed spends her 17th birthday in prison. The Palestinian teenager has been in a military prison since December, after she slapped an Israeli soldier in a viral video, The slap was in response to a group of Israeli soldiers attempting […]

today31 January 2018

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Israeli Authorities Seek 12 Charges against Palestinian Teen activist Ahed Tamimi

Israeli authorities are seeking 12 charges against Ahed Tamimi, a prominent 16-year-old Palestinian activist filmed slapping and kicking two Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank. The teenager was detained on December 19, four days after the video showing her confronting the soldiers outside her family’s home in the village of Nabi Saleh went viral. The incident occurred moments after Israeli forces had shot Ahed’s 15-year-old cousin point-blank in the […]

today2 January 2018

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Why is the West praising Malala, but ignoring Ahed?

OPINION by Shenila Khoja-Moolji Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl, was recently arrested in a night-time raid on her home. The Israeli authorities accuse her of "assaulting" an Israeli soldier and an officer. A day earlier she had confronted Israeli soldiers who had entered her family's backyard. The incident happened shortly after a soldier shot her 14-year-old cousin in the head with a rubber bullet, and fired tear-gas canisters directly […]

today29 December 2017

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Twitter account of imprisoned Ahed Tamimi deleted

Without explanation, the Twitter account belonging to imprisoned Palestinian teenage girl Ahed Tamimi was deleted. Tamimi was arrested and imprisoned by the Israeli military. Another account has been created, calling for Twitter to reinstate Tamimi’s original account. While it is unclear if Twitter itself deleted the account, Manal Tamimi, a relative of Ahed, suggested Twitter did indeed ban the account. The Palestinian teenager was arrested last week after a video […]

today28 December 2017

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Ahed Tamimi transferred to three different detention facilities

The recent arrest of 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi by Israeli soldiers from her family home in the West Bank town of Nabi Saleh has sparked protest around the world and refocused light on Israel’s unjust treatment of Palestinian children. In the five days since her arrest, Israeli authorities have attempted to coerce confession from Ahed, a minor, without access to a lawyer or a parent (her mother Nariman was herself arrested […]

today25 December 2017

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Mandla Mandela demands release of Ahed Tamimi

As a social media campaign demanding the release of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi gains momentum, ANC MP Mandla Mandela has denounced the ill treatment of Palestinian children resisting Zionist occupation. The activist, who recently visited Palestine, has expressed his outrage over the arrest and detention of 17 year old activist from the well-known Tamimi family. Ahed was arrested on Tuesday when Israeli occupation soldiers swooped into their home in Nabi […]

today22 December 2017

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Ahed Tamimi to stay in prison for 5 days

Ahed Tamimi will be detained until Monday as she is refusing to speak with Israeli officers who are trying to interrogate her, according to an Israeli military court. The 17 year old Palestinian from Nabi Saleh village was arrested on Tuesday, after a video of her confronting an Israeli occupation soldier made headlines around the world. Her mother Narriman, who was also arrested when she visited her daughter at the […]

today21 December 2017

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Bassem Tamimi arrested while attending Ahed’s court hearing

By Yaseen Kippie After social media outcry at the arrest of 16 year old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi, many others of the Tamimi family have been arrested, including her father. Bassem Tamimi, the father of Ahed Tamimi, was arrested earlier today while attending the court hearing of his daughter. 16 year old Ahed was arrested during an early morning raid on their home in Nabi Saleh village in the West […]

today20 December 2017

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