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| Ahed Tamimi: Israel frees Palestinian viral slap video teen | Ahed Tamimi: Israel frees Palestinian viral slap video teen |
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| Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi has been freed by Israel after spending eight months in prison for slapping and kicking an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank. | |
| Video of the incident outside her home in Nabi Saleh last year went viral. | Video of the incident outside her home in Nabi Saleh last year went viral. |
| For Palestinians, she became a symbol of resistance to Israeli occupation, but many Israelis see her as a publicity-seeking trouble-maker. | For Palestinians, she became a symbol of resistance to Israeli occupation, but many Israelis see her as a publicity-seeking trouble-maker. |
| The Israeli prison service says she is on her way back to the West Bank. | The Israeli prison service says she is on her way back to the West Bank. |
| Sixteen at the time, she originally faced 12 charges, but pleaded guilty in March to four charges including assault. | Sixteen at the time, she originally faced 12 charges, but pleaded guilty in March to four charges including assault. |
| Ahed Tamimi was filmed by her mother, Nariman, shouting at and shoving two soldiers in the driveway of her family home on 15 December 2017. | |
| The incident was streamed on Nariman Tamimi's Facebook page and video of the confrontation was widely viewed. | |
| In the footage she kicks one soldier and slaps his face, and threatens to punch the other. | |
| Ahed Tamimi told a pre-trial hearing that she had lashed out at the soldiers because she had seen them shoot her 15-year-old cousin Mohammed in the head with a rubber bullet that same day. | |
| The Israeli military said it had dispatched the soldiers to the Tamimis' home, where Palestinian youths had been throwing stones at troops sent to quell violent protests | |
| It also later contested the cause of Mohammed's head injury, saying last month that the boy had told interrogators that he sustained it from falling off a bike. | |
| Sharp divide | |
| Ahed Tamimi's case sparked an outpouring of deeply opposing views between Israelis and Palestinians. | |
| Following the incident, Israel's Education Minister Naftali Bennett said she deserved to "finish their lives in prison". | |
| Many Israelis say Ahed Tamimi has long been exploited by her family, who they accuse of using her to try to provoke Israeli soldiers on film. | |
| Her mother was also charged with incitement on social media and assault, while her cousin Nour, who participated in the incident, was charged with assault. | |
| For Palestinians, she has become a national icon for what they see as acts of bravery in standing up to armed soldiers on occupied land. | |
| Her face has appeared on street murals and posters, while an online petition organised by her father calling for her release gathered 1.7m signatures. |