Singapore has banned a film festival from screening a documentary later this week that features a teenage Palestinian female activist, Ahed Tamimi, whose arrest last month has made her a symbol of resistance to Israeli military occupation in the West Bank. The Info-communications Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) said on its website that the documentary lacked “counterbalance”. Israeli authorities are seeking 12 charges against Tamimi for slapping and kicking two Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank. Prior to the incident, Israeli soldiers had apparently parked themselves on Tamimi’s family’s land shortly after their colleagues shot her 14-year-old cousin in the face with a rubber bullet and fired tear gas at their house, smashing windows, writes Hiba Khan for The Independent.