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Jana Tamimi, also known as Jana Jihad (born 6 April 2006) is a young Palestinian activist and amateur journalist. Several media outlets awarded her the title of "the youngest journalist in Palestine." Other media have also considered her one of the youngest female journalists in the world.
Biography
She lives in the village of Nabi Saleh in the West Bank and belongs to the Banu Tamim tribe. Her mother, Nawal Tamim, is the director of women's affairs at the Palestinian Ministry of Development.
Jihad has regularly participated in demonstrations against the IDF. She began videotaped events about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, such as the demonstrations in her village when she was seven years old, and posted them in Arabic and English on several social media sites Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and Facebook, Her Facebook followers reached more than 270,000 in January 2018.
Jihad said that her goal is to convey to the world what she considers the suffering of the Palestinian people and that she believes is not reported by media companies, Jana was affected by the killing of her cousin and uncle by the Israeli army. Her thoughts were inspired by her uncle Bilal Tamimi, a photographer documenting violence by Israeli soldiers in the village of Nabi Saleh. In March 2017, Jihad won the International Prize Award in Istanbul, Turkey. She appeared in the documentary "Readiness of the Resistance" when she was nine years old. She went to South Africa under the auspices of the Ahmed Katrada Foundation to raise awareness about violence in the West Bank as part of the Pals4Peace tour with the South African Shamsan Children pro-Palestine campaign.
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