If women had been hurt, the incident ’would have ended in a completely different way,’ father tells Army Radio; Palestinian girl seen on video tells Channel 2 soldier used too much force.
Haaretz Aug 30, 2015
(...) Meanwhile, the mother and sister of the Palestinian teen seen on the video spoke out about incident in an interview with the Israeli Channel 2.
“I cannot stand by and see my brother on the verge of death,” said the boy’s sister, Ahed Tamimi, told Channel 2, adding that the soldier used too much force.
“It’s a little boy with a broken arm, what can he possibly do?” Tamimi said.
The boy’s mother, Nariman Tamimi, said: “I’m a mother, if a soldier attacks a small boy and does something to him I’ll do everything to release my boy from the soldier’s hands.”
This is not the first time the Tamimi family has gained international attention due to photographs of confrontations with the Israeli army. In 2012, a photo of Ahed shaking her fist at an Israeli soldier became an international sensation. Thanks to the photo, she has won an award from Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul.
Also on Sunday, Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev commented on the incident on her Facebook page, saying that Israeli soldiers cannot be sent out with their arms “tied behind their backs,” adding that soldiers under attack must be allowed to open fire.
“I call on the defense minister to put an end to the humiliation and change the rules of engagement immediately!” Regev wrote.