Ahed Tamimi (22), an anti-Israel activist known as the ‘Palestinian Joan of Arc’, was arrested by the Israel Defense Forces on charges of threatening to kill Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
According to the BBC and AFP on the 6th (local time), the Palestinian Prisoners’ Association announced that Tamimi was arrested and detained by the IDF in the village of Nabisaleh, West Bank, West Bank, Palestinian Autonomous Region.
In response, the IDF said Tamimi was suspected of inciting violence and terrorist activities. She is now known as Tamimi. She has reportedly been taken to an IDF base for further interrogation.
Media reported that Tamimi is suspected of posting a social media post threatening to massacre Jewish settlers living in the West Bank.
Tamimi specifically mentioned on her Instagram that Hitler’s Nazi Germany murdered 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, saying, “We will massacre you (Jewish settlers) and you will think what Hitler did to you is a joke.” “We will drink your blood and eat your skull.” “Let’s go, we are waiting for you,” he reportedly wrote. However, the post has now been deleted by Instagram.
Ahed Tamimi arrested by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir captures X (Twitter)However, Tamimi’s mother denies Israel’s claim that Tamimi posted the post. “There are dozens of online pages with pictures of Tamimi and her name on them, but they have nothing to do with Tamimi,” he told AFP. AFP reported that it is unknown whether the blocked Instagram account is actually Tamimi’s account.
Israel’s Minister of State Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, posted a photo on Twitter showing what appeared to be an arrest squad of IDF soldiers arresting Ahed Tamimi indoors. “She has expressed her sympathy and her support for the Nazis on her social media,” he said, adding, “(We must respond with) zero tolerance for terrorists and supporters of terrorism.”
Ahed Tamimi resisted to protect her younger brother in 2015. Capture from @leylahamed X (Twitter)Tamimi became famous in 2015, when she was 14 years old, when she was photographed biting an Israeli soldier who was trying to detain her younger brother. Afterwards, she became a symbol of the Palestinian resistance movement, called ‘Palestinian Joan of Arc’. In 2017, when she was 16, she was arrested for hitting and kicking an Israeli soldier and was sentenced to eight months in prison.
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