RAMALLAH, May 20, 2018 (WAFA) – The Israeli army detained on Sunday Mohammad Fadel Tamimi, 15, at his Nabi Saleh village, northwest of Ramallah, according to Bilal Tamimi, an activist in the anti-settlements committee in the village.

He told WAFA that soldiers detained Mohammad Tamimi at the entrance to his village and took him to a police station at Benyamin detention center in the occupied West Bank.

Mohammad Tamimi was previously detained and held for three months for participating in protests against the Israeli occupation. Two months after his release, he was shot in the face by a rubber-coated metal bullet fired by Israeli soldiers causing him serious damage to his skull that required surgery and removal of a part of his skull.

After he was shot, his cousin, Ahed Tamimi, an icon of Palestinian peaceful resistance, slapped an Israeli soldier who raided her family home in Nabi Saleh. She was detained as a result when she was still 16 and sentenced in March, along with her mother, Nariman, to eight months in prison for humiliating a soldier.

M.K.