With her long curly hair and penetrating gaze, the Palestinian Ahed Tamimi, Arrested this Monday for “incitement to terrorism”, she is an icon of the fight against the Israeli occupation.
The images of this Palestinian, who is 22 years old, have been going around the world for a long time. When she was 11 years old, she shook her fists at Israeli soldiers. At 14, she tried to free her little brother along with other women. And at 16, she appears arrested surrounded by Israeli police.
Your family home in Prophet Salih, in the north of the West Bank occupied, it became a meeting point for Palestinian and foreign activists fighting against the Israeli occupation.
Tamimi was detained again by the Israeli army on Monday, in the middle of the war between the Jewish State and the Palestinian Islamist movement. Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The conflict, which began on October 7, has intensified violence in the West Bank, occupied by Israel in 1967, with more than 150 Palestinians dead, according to the territory’s Ministry of Health.