Real Madrid honors Palestine's Ahed Tamimi
Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi, who served an
eight-month sentence in an Israeli jail, was honored by Spanish soccer club Real
Madrid on Saturday after being invited to visit the team’s stadium.
Tamimi, 17, was accompanied by her father during her
trip to Spain where she participated in several political events.
The Palestinian teen was arrested after a video
emerged showing her and her cousin yelling at Israeli troops and slapping one
of the soldiers outside her home in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh late
last year.
The attack by both on the Israeli soldiers
reportedly occurred after their 15-year-old cousin Mohammed Tamimi was shot in
the head at close range with a rubber-coated steel bullet, severely wounding
him.
Tamimi has since been considered as one of the new
symbols of Palestinian resistance to Israeli military occupation in the West
Bank.
