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WhiteTara

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Sun Apr 24, 2016, 01:21 PM Apr 2016

Israel frees youngest Palestinian prisoner

Source: Washington Post

HEBRON, West Bank — A 12-year-old Palestinian girl, imprisoned by Israel after she confessed to planning a stabbing attack on Israelis in a West Bank settlement, returned home Sunday after she was freed early following an appeal.

Dima al-Wawi is believed to be the youngest female Palestinian ever imprisoned.

Al-Wawi was greeted by about 80 relatives at her family’s house in Halhoul, a village near Hebron, a West Bank city that has been a focal point of violence. Relatives decorated the house with balloons and posters. Banners by the Islamic militant group Hamas along with the Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas adorned the walls.

“I am happy to be out. Prison is bad,” al-Wawi told The Associated Press. “During my time in prison I missed my classmates and my friends and family.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/israel-frees-youngest-palestinian-prisoner/2016/04/24/a0666c7c-0a23-11e6-bc53-db634ca94a2a_story.html

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