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Palestinians are freedom fighters not victims, Tamimi insists
Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi

PALESTINIAN freedom fighter Ahed Tamimi insisted that revolution was necessary to defeat occupation as she called on delegates at a major Latin American conference to support their struggle for liberty and justice.

Ms Tamimi was speaking via a video message to the Clacso conference in Argentina when she highlighted the “suffering of children” in Israeli prisons, describing the incarceration as a form of torture.

According to statistics from the Israeli military 239 Palestinian children were held in Israeli prisons as security detainees and prisoners, with three held under administrative detention, meaning they can be detained indefinitely.

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