Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi, whose eight-month sentence for slapping and hitting Israeli soldiers sparked international condemnation, has been released from Israeli prison. She was released with her mother, Nariman, who was also sentenced to eight months.

Addressing the crowd, Tamimi thanked activists and the media for their support during her prison stay. She said she was “extremely happy” to be “in the arms and embrace of my family” but added that her “happiness is not full” when others are still behind Israeli bars. “I hope that they will also be free,” she said.

On 15 December 2017, Ahed Tamimi, then 16, was visibly upset by the announcement that her 15-year-old cousin Mohammed Tamimi had been shot at close range in the face by soldiers of the Israeli occupation army with a rubbercoated steel bullet earlier in the day, leaving him in critical condition.

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