Ms. Tamimi comes from a family of prominent Palestinian activists and has protested the Israeli occupation of their village of Nabi Saleh for much of her life. Ms. Tamimi made headlines as a child for physically confronting Israeli forces, who have wounded, imprisoned and killed many of her relatives. A video of one such episode, in which she slapped an Israeli soldier, went viral and transformed Ms. Tamimi into an international symbol of Palestinian resistance. The Israeli military estimates that it has arrested 1,800 people in the occupied West Bank since Oct. 7. “This form of detention has been systematically used by the Israeli authorities to subjugate and silence Palestinians, including writers, for decades,” he added.

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Persons: Ahed Tamimi, Nariman, Ahed, Nariman Tamimi, Tamimi, Mahmoud Hassan, ” Mr, Hassan, we’re, Hitler, Nabi Saleh, Bassem, Ofer, “, ”, Mina Thabet Organizations: West Bank, Random, Human Rights, Palestinian Prisoners Society, PEN International Locations: Israel, East, North Africa