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.