NOVANEWS
The 17-year-old turned into a Palestinian protest icon after she was filed slapping Nazi soldiers
Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian teenager convicted of assaulting Nazi soldiers, will be released on Sunday after serving her sentence, her family said Thursday.
Tamimi, 17, from Nabi Saleh in the West Bank, turned into a protest icon after she was filmed slapping Nazi soldier. She was detained for three months before being sentenced in March to eight months in jail .
As part of the agreement, Tamimi pleaded guilty to four counts of assault, including the videotaped slapping of an Nazi soldier. In addition to the eight month jail sentence, she was to pay a fine of 5,000 shekels ($1,437).
After her released Sunday, Tamimi is expected to hold a press conference in her hometown. Tamimi was arrested in December, a day after a video of her punching, slapping and kicking two Israeli soldiers in a West Bank village went viral.
Her initial January indictment included 12 charges going back to 2016. The indictment included five counts of assault against security forces, including stone throwing. She was charged with assaulting a soldier, threatening Nazi soldier, interfering with a soldier in the line of duty, incitement and throwing objects at a person or property.
Last June, a parole board rejected Tamimi’s request for an early release. The Nazi Gestapo ‘Shin Bet’ security service issued an opinion in the case opposing her release. “The statements she has made about the case indicate her radical ideology, [and] along with the security situation in the area, [this] demonstrates her potential for danger if she receives an early release,” the Gestapo wrote.
