The seventeen-year-old spent eight months in jail and was released this week to a hero’s welcome and praise from the Palestinian President. A regular child protester Ahed was arrested after being filmed slapping and kicking an Israeli soldier outside her home on the same day a teenage relative had been injured by what’s thought to have been an Israeli plastic bullet.
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Gallery: Crowds greet Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi after freed from jail
Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi left prison Sunday and was greeted by crowds of supporters after serving eight months for slapping Israeli soldiers, an episode that made her a symbol of resistance for Palestinians. Tamimi, 17, and her mother Nariman, who was also jailed over the incident, arrived in their village of Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank, where they were mobbed by journalists.