Palestinian Teen Ahed Tamimi Agrees to Plea Deal: Israeli Media

The resistance icon was arrested for slapping Israeli soldiers after her cousin was shot in the face with a rubber bullet.

Reuters

Mar 21 2018

The resistance icon was arrested for slapping Israeli soldiers after her cousin was shot in the face with a rubber bullet.

Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi (R) enters a military courtroom escorted by Israeli Prison Service personnel at Ofer Prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 1. Credit: Reuters/Ammar Awad

Jerusalem: A Palestinian teenage girl on trial for slapping an Israeli soldier accepted a plea deal on Wednesday under which she will be sentenced to eight months in prison, Israel's Haaretz news website said.

Ahed Tamimi's lawyer was not immediately available to comment. The attorney told Reuters earlier that a plea bargain over the December incident, which turned Tamimi into a hero to Palestinians, had been offered by military prosecutors.

(Reuters)

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