Freed Palestinian teenager Ahed al-Tamimi on Sunday called for ending Israel's decades-long occupation.
Speaking for the first time since the end of her near-eight-month stint in the HaSharon prison in central Israel, Tamimi said that her community's "resistance will continue, particularly our resistance for equal rights."
"We will continue the resistance to achieve the freedom of the Palestinian people," al-Tamimi told a press conference in the West Bank town of Nabi Saleh, west of Ramallah.
"We must boycott and isolate the [Israeli] occupation and put it on trial," she said.
Her case sparked an outpouring of international criticism against Israel and a renewed focus on the treatment of Palestinian youths in Israeli military courts.
The 17-year-old girl, who has become an icon of Palestinian resistance, was released along with her mother from Israeli prison on Sunday after an 8-month detention.
She was released early - along with her mother Nariman, who was arrested for the same incident - for administrative reasons at the discretion of the Israel Prison Service.
Early Sunday, Palestinian media showed images of a teary-eyed Tamimi, with her thick mane of strawberry-blonde curls, embracing her mother.
The teenager came home to a hero's welcome with large banners of her image posted around Nabi Saleh.
Tamimi said time in prison had been "difficult and humiliating," but that she had nonetheless managed to study for her high school matriculation exams.
She accused the Israeli Prison Service of interrogating her without a woman present. She called on Palestinians to remain quiet if they are interrogated by Israeli authorities.
Tamimi plans to attend university and study law, but was reticent when asked if she would hit an Israeli soldier again and risk being imprisoned again.
"Essentially I can't tell you what will happen in the future or what the future will hold," she said. "I'm under probation, I could be re-arrested, I hope in the future Palestine will be free so none of this will have to happen again."
Her father, Bassem, was adamant that Tamimi "must slap the soldier," he said on Sunday. The Israelis "want to stop all our happiness, sure we will continue," he added.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called Tamimi "a model of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, independence and statehood," according to Wafa, the official PA news agency.
Abbas said that the teenager is a "vital weapon" in nonviolent resistance to Israel's control over the West Bank.
Last week Bassem Tamimi said that his family is seeking "to continue normal life" and has stopped the weekly anti-occupation protests in Nabi Saleh where confrontations with Israeli soldiers are common.
However, he added, sometimes "the occupation forces you to resist because there is no other way."
Al-Tamimi has dominated world headlines after a video emerged of her slapping an Israeli soldier during a raid on her home to arrest her brother.
She was arrested by Israeli forces in December with an Israeli court slapping her with an 8-month detention in March for "attacking" an Israeli soldier.
In 2012, Istanbul's Başakşehir Municipality granted al-Tamimi the prestigious Hanzala Courage Award for defying Israeli soldiers who had just arrested her brother.
