AN ISRAELI military court has extended the detention of 16-year-old Palestinian girl Ahed Tamimi, filmed slapping a soldier, and her mother Nariman.

Occupation forces decided on Christmas Day to keep both locked up without charge or trial while they “investigated” what they called an assault.

Ahed Tamimi was arrested in a 3am raid on her family’s home in Nabi Saleh on December 19, a day after she was recorded slapping and kicking two soldiers after troops shot her 15-year-old cousin Mohamed with rubber-coated steel bullets.