Daily Times

Israel’s army on Tuesday arrested a Palestinian girl after a video went viral of her slapping Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank.

The video showed two Palestinian teenage girls approaching two Israeli soldiers, before slapping them while filming on mobile phones.

The incident is believed to have taken place next to the house of one of the girls, 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi, in the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh in the West Bank.

Early Tuesday the Israeli army raided Tamimi’s house and arrested her, her father Bassem said, accusing the army of seizing telephones, computers and other electronic equipment.

“They didn’t give a reason for her arrest,” Bassem said.

The Tamimi family are prominent campaigners against the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, and a picture of Ahed as a child biting the hand of a soldier to try to stop the arrest of a brother became a symbolic image.

That picture and others resulted in her being received by the then Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2012.

Another family member, Mohammed, is recovering in hospital after being shot in the head with a rubber bullet Friday, the family said.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett said that Tamimi could face seven years in prison.