Some anti-occupation activists have compared Ahed to Malala Yousafzai or referred to her as the West Bank’s Joan of Arc.

“Why is the West praising Malala, but ignoring Ahed?” asked academic Shenila Khoja-Moolji in an op-ed for Al Jazeera in December. She suggested that many people view the “state-sanctioned violence” of Israel as more acceptable than the “hostile actions of non-state actors such as the Taliban or Boko Haram”, and argued that “girls like Ahed who critique settler colonialism and articulate visions of communal care are not the empowered femininity that the West wants to valorise”.

In a letter signed by dozens of American actors, athletes, musicians, academics and political figures including Rosario Dawson, Angela Davis and Jesse Williams, the US human rights groups Dream Defenders drew parallels between Ahed and young people brutalised by authorities around the world.

“Too many of our children quickly learn that they may be imprisoned or killed simply for who they are. From Trayvon Martin to Mohammed Abu Khdeir and Khalif Browder to Ahed Tamimi – racism, state violence and mass incarceration have robbed our people of their childhoods and their futures,” the letter read.

Who is Ahed Tamimi? The Palestinian teen jailed for slapping Israeli soldiers