Ahed TAMIMI

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Writer and prominent activist Ahed Tamimi remained under a travel ban throughout the year and is unable to reach her university for study.  

Held for 24 days between 6-30 November 2023 until her release as a part of a temporary truce deal between Israel and Hamas (see Case List 2023-2024), Tamimi was forced to internally relocate and leave her house in the West Bank due to the Israeli authorities’ escalating crackdown on Palestinians in the West Bank in 2024. She remains unable to travel to continue her studies at Birzeit University due to the arbitrary security measures Israeli soldiers enforce on Palestinians at checkpoints across the West Bank. According to her family, Tamimi remains subject to a travel ban and is unable to travel to pursue her university studies abroad, which resulted in her losing a scholarship opportunity in 2025. She continues to suffer from health complications due to her prison experience in 2023, including stomach and throat issues and difficulties in sleeping. 

Ahed Tamimi is a prominent Palestinian activist and the co-author (with Dena Takruri) of They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom (Random House, 2022), in which she reflects on her personal experience and the daily struggles of life under Israeli occupation. She was previously arrested in December 2017, at the age of 17, following the dissemination of a video of an altercation with Israeli soldiers. She was later sentenced to eight months in prison after conviction of charges including ‘aggravated assault.’