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Israel bars Ahed Tamimi and her family from traveling abroad

Friday 7-September-2018

Israel has banned Ahed al-Tamimi a Palestinian resistance icon and her family from traveling abroad her father said.

Basim al-Tamimi told Anadolu news agency that he and his family had planned to travel to Europe through Jordan in order to participate in some pro-Palestine events but they were informed by the Palestinian authorities that Israel had banned them from traveling abroad.

They planned to leave Friday morning he said adding the Palestinian authorities did not provide a reason for the Israeli ban.

On July 29 the Israeli authorities released Ahed al-Tamimi and her mother Nariman after both had spent eight months behind bars.

The 17-year-old was arrested last December and was later sentenced to eight months in jail for slapping an Israeli soldier.

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