The sentencing did not only carry an eight-month prison sentence for Ahed, but also a 5,000 NIS ($1,400 USD) fine as well as three years of a suspended sentence. Two other Tamimi women strugglers were sentenced at the same time: Ahed’s mother, Nariman, a leader in the indigenous land defense movement in their village of Nabi Saleh, and Ahed’s cousin, Nour.
Nariman Tamimi will also serve an eight-month prison sentence alongside her daughter and a three-year suspended sentence; she was fined 6,000 NIS ($1,780 USD) for filming Ahed’s confrontation with an occupying soldier and livestreaming it on Facebook. Nour was sentenced to her time served and fined 2,000 NIS ($500 USD). CONTINUE READING
