![Palestinian Ahed Tamimi (2nd-R), 17, a well-known campaigner against Israel's occupation, appears at a military court at the Israeli-run Ofer prison in the West Bank village of Betunia on December 20, 2017.
Israel's army arrested Tamimi on December 19, 2017, after a video went viral of her slapping Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank as they remained impassive. / AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/M2PIJZN57MMWK2VSYYSZN7VLFQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=4e1303bc76ceb98c3e971e845ded1bf309b633e9378f62f0ad566dd7eafb0b64&width=400&height=225)
Palestinian teenager Ahed Al Tamimi, 16, being hauled before an Israeli military court last month / AFP
Palestinian teenager Ahed Al Tamimi, 16, being hauled before an Israeli military court last month / AFP
Ahed Al Tamimi's incarceration sheds a disturbing light on how children are targeted in Israel
Dubbed Palestinians' Joan of Arc and subjected to sinister threats, Ahed shows resistance cannot be passive or polite