{"id":12286,"date":"2018-08-21T16:31:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T16:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12286"},"modified":"2018-08-21T16:31:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T16:31:44","slug":"brother-of-palestinian-teen-tamimi-sentenced-for-stone-throwing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12286","title":{"rendered":"Brother of Palestinian teen Tamimi sentenced for stone-throwing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1359921\/middle-east\" readability=\"49\">\n<p>\nJERUSALEM: The brother of a teenager who became a symbol of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after slapping two soldiers has been sentenced to jail for throwing stones at a police officer, the army said Tuesday.<br \/>Waed Tamimi, the brother of Ahed Tamimi, confessed to his role in a March 2017 \u201cviolent riot\u201d in which an Israeli police officer was wounded by stones thrown by Palestinians at his vehicle, according to a military court ruling from Monday.<br \/>Since he had already received a suspended sentence for stoning Israeli security forces in 2016, he was handed a 14-month sentence for the 2017 incident as part of a plea bargain, the court document said.<br \/>Asked by the court if he had anything to say, the 22-year-old said: \u201cI have nothing to add. There will be no third time,\u201d according to the ruling, which was published by the army on Tuesday.<br \/>The incident took place in Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank, where the Tamimi family lives.<br \/>Tamimi\u2019s sister, Ahed, was released from prison last month after an eight-month sentence for hitting and kicking two Israeli soldiers in front of her house in the occupied West Bank.<br \/>In an interview the day after her release, the now 17-year-old told AFP that she understood she had become a \u201csymbol\u201d of the Palestinian cause.<br \/>Video of that incident went viral, leading to praise and support from Palestinians but scorn from Israelis who accused her activist family of using her in staged provocations.<br \/>Rights groups harshly criticized Israel for the length of Ahed Tamimi\u2019s sentence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: The brother of a teenager who became a symbol of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after slapping two soldiers has been sentenced to jail for throwing stones at a police officer, the army said Tuesday.Waed Tamimi, the brother of Ahed Tamimi, confessed to his role in a March 2017 \u201cviolent riot\u201d in which an Israeli police&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}