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Palestinian women up in arms against Israeli soldiers

Palestinian women are trying everything in their power to protest land confiscations and other Israeli measures, and it seems they have no problem resorting to fistfights when children are at risk.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank — One week after a confrontation between an Israeli soldier and a 12-year-old Palestinian boy captured international headlines, the boy's family is back protesting the occupation of their land.

On Aug. 31, 14-year-old Ahed Tamimi and her mother, Narimane, engaged in a fistfight with a heavily armed Israeli soldier in the village of Nabi Saleh, west of Ramallah. The fight occurred after the soldier shoved Ahed’s brother Mohammed, who had his hand in a cast, while trying to arrest him. The mother and daughter succeeded in saving him, in scenes that were broadcast by Arab and worldwide media.

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