The seventeen-year-old spent eight months in jail and was released this week to a hero's welcome and praise from the Palestinian President. A regular child protester Ahed was arrested after being filmed slapping and kicking an Israeli soldier outside her home on the same day a teenage relative had been injured by what's thought to have been an Israeli plastic bullet. She told us about her experience

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