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October 23, 2025

U.S. Lawmakers Call on Israel to Release 16-Year-Old Palestinian American Held Months Without Trial
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A group of 27 Democratic lawmakers has written to Secretary Rubio and
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, urging them to secure the
release of Mohammed Ibrahim, a teenage Palestinian American citizen from
Florida. He was arrested by Israeli soldiers, who blindfolded and
handcuffed him during an early-morning raid on his family's West Bank
home in February. Ibrahim spent his 16th birthday in an Israeli prison,
where he's been held without trial for nearly eight months.


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