The soldier holds on to the boy as a young girl bites his hand.
The Israeli soldier attempts to restrain the boy who resists being detained.
The daily quoted activists who were at Friday’s protest as saying that the soldier used violence against the 12-year-old boy, whose arm was in a cast at the time of the attempted arrest. “Stand with the human rights”.
According to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) “the youth in the picture was seen throwing rocks, and as such a decision was made to arrest him”.
Palestinian women and children succesfully fight to free the boy from the Israeli soldier. “The soldier pictured was lightly wounded as a result of the violent actions against him”, the statement added. This is a practice known as Pallywood, and Bassem Tamimi is pointed to as one of its main proponents, with his daughter being given the mocking moniker Shirley Temper. The video went viral in the Muslim world, and Ahed was invited to breakfast with Turkey’s current president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who gave her an award for bravery.
It said that since the ceasefire agreement, which was reached on August 29, 2014, under the Egyptian auspices, 16 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces’ fire, including one child, while over 170 others, including 24 children, were injured.