Ahed Tamimi became famous at age 14 when she was filmed biting an Israeli soldier who was pushing her then 12-year-old brother down on a rock.
The Israel Defense Forces said it arrested prominent 22-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi on Monday during a raid in the West Bank town of Nabi Saleh. The IDF said Tamimi was 'suspected of inciting violence and calling for terrorist activity to be carried out,' and that she was 'transferred to Israeli security forces for further questioning.
CBS News has been unable to independently verify that the account belongs to Tamimi. Her mother, Nariman al-Tamimi, told the AFP news agency that her daughter did not write the post.'There are dozens of pages in Ahed's name with her photo, with which she has no connection,' Nariman al-Tamimi told AFP. She was then arrested in 2017 for slapping and kicking two Israeli soldiers who were in the yard of her family home after telling them to leave.
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