Israeli authorities have released their youngest prisoner, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl convicted for plotting an attack on a West Bank settlement with a knife. The school girl was detained in February and allegedly confessed to an attempted stabbing attack in a plea bargain with Israeli military prosecutors. The Telegraph reports: There were 438 Palestinian minors imprisoned for security-related offences in February 2016, up from 170 last September, according to Israel Prison Service figures quoted by Israeli daily Haaretz. The figures came out as a 12-year-old Palestinian girl was released from prison on Sunday, the youngest female ever incarcerated in Israel. Dima al-Wawi was convicted in a plea bargain in February of attempted voluntary manslaughter and illegal possession of a knife by an Israeli military court. Israeli minors under 14 are not given prison sentences, but a separate military law allows for Palestinians as young as 12 to be sent to jail. Her parents were ordered to pay a fine of NIS 8000 (£1,488). According to the indictment, the girl was apprehended outside the settlement of Karmei Tzur and confessed to intending to stab a Jew with a knife. She was released two months before the end of her sentence after a public [...]