Ahed Tamimi's arrest sheds disturbing light on how children are targeted by Israel

Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi may not be what Israelis had in mind when, over many years, they criticised Palestinians for not producing a Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela, Jonathan Cook writes in The National today.

Eventually, colonised peoples bring to the fore a figure best suited to challenge the rotten values at the core of the society oppressing them. Ahed is well qualified for the task.

She was charged last week with assault and incitement after she slapped two heavily armed Israeli soldiers as they refused to leave the courtyard of her family home in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah. Her mother, Nariman, is in detention for filming the incident. The video quickly went viral.

Ahed lashed out shortly after soldiers nearby shot her 15-year-old cousin in the face, seriously injuring him.

To read on see: www.jonathan-cook.net/2018-01-08/ahed-tamimi-children-targeted-israel/

See a petition calling for Ahed and all child prisoners to be freed, here: https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/free_ahed/?fKEUnbb