Artists painting a picture for civil protest icon Ahed Tamimi on Israel‘s apartheid wall surrounding Bethlehem. (WAFA Images / Ahmad Mizher) 

RAMALLAH, July 27, 2018 (WAFA) – Palestinian civil protests icon 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi is expected to be released from Israeli prison on Sunday after serving eight months in detention for slapping an armed Israeli soldier who invaded her home in Nabi Saleh village, near Ramallah, late last year.

Tamimi was snatched from her bed and home in the middle of a cold winter night in December when she was only 16 years old after a video showed her slapping and facing a fully armed Israeli soldier at her home.

Her mother, Nariman, was also arrested the next day after she went to visit her at her detention center and charged with incitement for posting the video on social media.

Both daughter and mother were sentenced by an Israeli court for eight months in prison for slapping the soldier and posting the video, almost the same time an Israeli soldier received for shooting and killing an incapacitated and wounded Palestinian in Hebron and who was later had his sentence reduced and received a hero‘s welcome after his early release by fellow extremist Jewish settlers in Hebron, where he committed his crime in front of cameras and soldiers.

Plans are underway to give a hero‘s welcome to the Tamimis upon their release on Sunday.

They are expected to be freed at a checkpoint in the north of the West Bank.

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