イスラエル軍、パレスチナ人活動家を拘束　「兵士を平手打ちした少女」

【エルサレムＡＦＰ＝時事】イスラエル軍は６日、パレスチナ自治区のヨルダン川西岸で、パレスチナ人の著名活動家アヘド・タミミさん（２２）を拘束したと明らかにした。（写真はパレスチナ人活動家アヘド・タミミさん〈資料写真〉）
　イスラエル軍の報道官はＡＦＰに、西岸の主要都市ラマラ近くの「ナビサレハで、アヘド・タミミさんを暴力とテロ活動を扇動した疑いで拘束した」と述べた。
　報道官はまた「タミミさんは、取り調べのためにイスラエル治安部隊の元に移送された」と説明した。
　タミミさんは、弟が拘束されるのを阻止しようとイスラエル兵士にかみついた２０１５年の写真で世界的に知られる。当時はまだ１４歳だった。弟は腕を骨折しており、ギプスで固定されていた。また２０１７年には、イスラエル兵を平手打ちする動画も拡散している。
　タミミさんは「パレスチナの大義」の象徴的存在となっており、ベツレヘムにあるイスラエルとヨルダン川西岸を隔てる壁には肖像画が描かれている。
　１０月７日にイスラム組織ハマスが奇襲を仕掛けて以降、イスラエルはパレスチナ自治区ガザ地区に激しい報復攻撃を続けている。
　ヨルダン川西岸でも、イスラエルとの緊張が高まっている。ハマスの保健当局は、これまでに１５０人のパレスチナ人が命を落としており、その大半はイスラエル兵と入植者によって殺害されたとしている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/11/07-16:52）

The Israeli army said Monday it had arrested the prominent 22-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi during a raid in the occupied West Bank.
Ahed Tamimi was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence and terrorist activities in the town of Nabi Salih near the city of Ramallah, an army spokesman told AFP.
Tamimi was transferred to Israeli security forces for further questioning.
The activist was arrested during an Israeli army raid aimed at apprehending individuals suspected of being involved in terrorist activities and incitement to hatred in the north of the West Bank, the spokesman added.
When AFP inquired about the reasons for her arrest, a security source forwarded an Instagram post, which has circulated widely on social media and is attributed to the young activist.
According to the post, written in Arabic and Hebrew, she called for the massacre of Israelis in explicitly violent terms, referring to Hitler.
The activist's mother, Nariman al-Tamimi, denied she wrote the post.
There are dozens of (online) pages in Ahed's name with her photo, with which she has no connection, Tamimi told AFP.
She added that her husband, Bassem al-Tamimi, was arrested on October 20 and since then there was no news about his whereabouts.
AFP was not immediately able to verify whether the Instagram account in question, which was blocked on Monday morning, actually belongs to Tamimi.
Tamimi became famous at age 14 when she was filmed biting an Israeli soldier to prevent him from arresting her brother who had his arm in a cast.
She has become an icon of the Palestinian cause and a large portrait of her has been painted on the Israeli separation wall with the West Bank in Bethlehem near Jerusalem.
She was arrested in 2017 and held for eight months for slapping two Israeli soldiers in the courtyard of her family home in the West Bank as she asked them to leave.
Since the start of the Gaza war triggered by the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Israeli security forces have carried out large-scale arrests of Palestinians suspected of links to Hamas or of inciting violence.
A spike in tensions and violence has claimed the lives of more than 150 Palestinians in the West Bank since then, most killed by Israeli soldiers or by settlers according to the Palestinian health ministry.