By Qais Abu Samra
RAMALLAH (AA) – Freed Palestinian teenager Ahed al-Tamimi on Sunday called for ending Israel’s decades-long occupation.
“We will continue the resistance to achieve the freedom of the Palestinian people,” al-Tamimi told a press conference in the West Bank town of Nabi Saleh, west of Ramallah.
“We must boycott and isolate the [Israeli] occupation and put it on trial,” she said.
The 17-year-old girl, who has become an icon of Palestinian resistance, was released along with her mother from Israeli prison on Sunday after an 8-month detention.
Al-Tamimi has dominated world headlines after a video emerged of her slapping an Israeli soldier during a raid on her home to arrest her brother.
She was arrested by Israeli forces in December with an Israeli court slapping her with an 8-month detention in March for “attacking” an Israeli soldier.
In 2012, Istanbul’s Basaksehir Municipality granted al-Tamimi the prestigious Hanzala Courage Award for defying Israeli soldiers who had just arrested her brother.
