Hebrew Slogans Calling for Tamimi’s Release Spotted in Tel Aviv

Palestinian teenager Ahed al-Tamimi appears before an Israeli court. (Getty Images)
Palestinian teenager Ahed al-Tamimi appears before an Israeli court. (Getty Images)
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Hebrew Slogans Calling for Tamimi’s Release Spotted in Tel Aviv

Palestinian teenager Ahed al-Tamimi appears before an Israeli court. (Getty Images)
Palestinian teenager Ahed al-Tamimi appears before an Israeli court. (Getty Images)

Hebrew slogans calling for the release of Palestinian teenager Ahed al-Tamimi have been scrawled on the walls of poor neighborhoods in Tel Aviv.

Written in fluent Hebrew, some of the slogans read “Freedom for Ahed al-Tamimi,” “Ahed al-Tamimi is a hero” and “We love you Ahed al-Tamimi.”

The Tel Aviv municipality was quick to erase the writings and police have launched a probe into the matter.

They suspect that Arabs fluent in Hebrew are behind it. They also did not rule out however the possibility that radical Jews may be involved.

An Israeli court had on Monday extended Tamimi’s detention to Wednesday.

Tamimi, 16, was arrested for slapping Israeli soldiers. She was filmed in December outside her family home, pushing, kicking and slapping soldiers, who fended off the blows without retaliating.

The prosecution is demanding that her detention be extended until all judicial measures against her are complete. Her defense has demanded that she be released because it believes that the prosecution is demanding too harsh a sentence.

Her lawyer presented to the court several cases of Jewish settlers who had done much more than slap a soldier and their detention was not extended until their judicial measures were over.

Tamimi should not be discriminated against simply because she is an Arab, she added.

She was indicted earlier this month on several counts, including attacking the soldiers.

The European Union had expressed on Friday its concern over her ongoing detention.



Israel Seals off the Occupied West Bank

Palestinians walk by the closed Deir Sharaf checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP)
Palestinians walk by the closed Deir Sharaf checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP)
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Israel Seals off the Occupied West Bank

Palestinians walk by the closed Deir Sharaf checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP)
Palestinians walk by the closed Deir Sharaf checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP)

Israel closed all checkpoints to the Israeli-occupied West Bank Friday as the country attacked Iran, a military official said Friday.

The move sealed off entry and exit to the territory, meaning that Palestinians could not leave without special coordination.

The official spoke on the condition of anonymity in line with military recommendations.

Around 3 million Palestinians live in the West Bank under Israeli military rule.

With the world’s attention focused on Gaza, Israeli military operations in the West Bank have grown in size, frequency and intensity.

The crackdown has also left tens of thousands unemployed, as they can no longer work the mostly menial jobs in Israel that paid higher wages.

Israel launched a wave of strikes across Iran on Friday that targeted its nuclear program and military sites, killing at least two top military officers and raising the prospect of an all-out war between the two bitter adversaries. It appeared to be the most significant attack Iran has faced since its 1980s war with Iraq.

The strikes came amid simmering tensions over Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program and appeared certain to trigger a reprisal. In its first response, Iran fired more than 100 drones at Israel. Israel said the drones were being intercepted outside its airspace, and it was not immediately clear whether any got through.

Israeli leaders cast the attack as necessary to head off an imminent threat that Iran would build nuclear bombs, though it remains unclear how close the country is to achieving that.