(NABI SALEH, West Bank) — Palestinian protest icon Ahed Tamimi returned home to a hero’s welcome in her West Bank village on Sunday after Israel released the 17-year-old from prison at the end of her eight-month sentence for slapping and kicking Israeli soldiers.Ahed and her mother, Nariman Tamimi, were greeted with banners, cheers and Palestinian flags as they entered their home village of Nabi Saleh.Ahed was arrested in December after she slapped two Israeli soldiers outside her family home.
Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi is released from an Israeli prison.