JERUSALEM: Israel's army arrested a Palestinian teenager yesterday after a video went viral of her slapping Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank as they remained impassive. The video supposedly shot Friday showed two Palestinian teenage girls approaching two Israeli soldiers, before shoving, kicking and slapping them while filming on mobile phones. The heavily armed soldiers do not respond in the face of what appears to be an attempt to provoke rather than seriously harm them. They then move backwards.

The incident is believed to have taken place next to the house of one of the girls, 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi, in the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh in the West Bank. Early yesterday the Israeli army raided Tamimi's house and arrested her, her father Bassem said, accusing the army of seizing telephones, computers and other electronic equipment. "They didn't give a reason for her arrest," Bassem said. The Tamimi family are prominent campaigners against the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, and a picture of Ahed as a child biting the hand of a soldier to try to stop the arrest of a brother became a symbolic image.