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Israel is paid £1,500 to free 12-year-old

ISRAEL released a 12-year-old girl, believed to be its youngest female Palestinian detainee, yesterday after nearly three months in prison.

Dima al-Wawi, from a village near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, was arrested and sentenced in February for attempted manslaughter and possession of a knife.

She is alleged to have gone to the illegal israeli settlement of Karmei Tzur with the intention of stabbing settlers.

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