From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by David A. Love was published in Aljazeera on January 15, 2018.
“It is possible for a single person to engage in an act of resistance against oppression and change the world. A 16-year-old Palestinian girl named Ahed Tamimi is such an individual. On December 19, in a simple yet profound act of defiance against the occupation, she slapped Israeli soldiers who had entered the yard of her house. Just hours earlier members of the Israeli armed forces had shot her teenage cousin Mohammed in the face with a rubber-coated bullet. The young boy was placed in a medically induced coma as doctors operated on him to remove the bullet fragments embedded in his skull.”
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