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Jana Tamimi also known as Jana Jihad (born April 6, 2006) is a Palestinian youth activist and amateur journalist. Several media outlets awarded her the title of “the youngest journalist in Palestine.” Other media also counted her as 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 Israeli army. She began videotaping events about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, such as the events of the demonstrations that took place in her village, when she was seven years old, and published them in both Arabic and English through several social networking sites, namely Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, and Facebook, and the number of her followers on Facebook reached more than 270,000 followers in January 2018. Jihad said that her goal is to convey to the world what she considers the suffering of the Palestinian people, which she believes that media companies do not convey. Jana was affected by the killing of her cousin and uncle at the hands of the Israeli army. She was inspired by her uncle Bilal Tamimi, a photographer documenting the violence perpetrated by Israeli soldiers in the village of Nabi Saleh. In March 2017, Jihad won the International Charity Award in Istanbul, Turkey. She appeared in the documentary "Ready to Resistance" when she was nine years old. She went to South Africa under the auspices of the Ahmad Kathrada Foundation to raise awareness about the violence taking place in the West Bank as part of the Pals4Peace tour with the South African "Shamsan's Children" campaign in support of Palestine.
Supporters of Israel criticized it as being used to spread anti-Israel propaganda at the international level, and a confidential report by the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs deemed it a "security risk".
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