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I'm Ahed Tamimi's cousin. Israel needs to stop imprisoning kids like her.
By Nour Tamimi
Nour Tamimi is a journalism student and activist from Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank.
I had barely fallen asleep when I woke to find an armed Israeli soldier hovering over my bed. He told me to get up quickly and put on a jacket. Half asleep, I was handcuffed, thrown into an army jeep, and taken to be interrogated. They had already taken my 16-year-old cousin, Ahed, the night before, and now it was my turn.
A few days earlier, the Israeli army raided our town of Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank to suppress our weekly demonstration against the illegal Jewish settlement built on our land and the theft of our fresh-water spring by settlers. During the demonstration, a soldier shot our 15-year-old cousin Mohammad in the face from close range, shattering his skull. He was rushed to the hospital and had to be medically induced into a coma. About half an hour later, still traumatized by what happened to our cousin, we found soldiers in the front yard of Ahed’s home where we were sitting and tried to get them to leave. For demanding they leave, my unarmed cousin is now facing charges for confronting an armed soldier.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...rael-needs-to-stop-imprisoning-kids-like-her/
I would really, really like to hear from Team Palestine what they think the solution is to a problem like Jabal al Baba. Don't give me the cheat of just saying, "Get Jews off "Palestinian land". Give me a concrete, specific action plan.