RAMALLAH, May 10, 2018 (WAFA) – The Israeli army detained early Thursday, Waad Tamimi, 21, brother of Ahed Tamimi, the youngest icon of the Palestinian popular protests, at his family’s Nabi Saleh home, northwest of Ramallah, according to Waad’s father, Bassem Tamimi.

He said that a large force raided his home and detained his son without giving any reason for the arrest.

Ahed Tamimi was 16 years old when the army detained her last year for slapping an armed soldier who raided her family home. She, and her mother, Nariman, who was also arrested for filming the slapping and posting it on the internet, were sentenced in April to eight months in prison.

Bassem Tamimi said confrontations broke out in the village following the army raid. There were  no reports of injuries.

M.K.