"Fifteen members of Congress have written to Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, demanding to know what steps the United States has taken in response to the mistreatment of a Palestinian-American teenager who spent nine months in Israeli detention. The letter, led by Senator Peter Welch and first seen by the Guardian, is centered around the case of Mohammed Ibrahim, a Florida resident who was 15 when Israeli soldiers arrested him during a raid on his family's West Bank home in February 2025."
"The then 16-year-old was severely underweight, having lost roughly a third of his body weight, and had suffered a scabies skin infection a few months into his detention, the state department told his family at the time, according to correspondences seen by the Guardian. Mohammed told family members and US consular officers that he and other Palestinian minors held in the same cell were beaten, threatened, pepper-sprayed and denied adequate food and medical care over the course of his detention."
"In an interview with the advocacy group Defense for Children International Palestine while still detained, Mohammed described receiving three small pieces of bread and a spoonful of yogurt for breakfast, with no dinner provided. There has been case after case of Palestinians, including hundreds of children, swept up in the Israeli military justice system, where they are not only denied basic rights of due process but subjected to systematic physical and psychological abuse, the lawmakers wrote in the 16 February letter."
Fifteen members of Congress asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio what steps the United States has taken regarding alleged mistreatment of a Palestinian-American teenager detained by Israeli forces. The teenager, Mohammed Ibrahim, was arrested at 15 during a February 2025 West Bank raid and released in late November after a guilty plea and suspended sentence. He was taken to hospital underweight, having lost about a third of his body weight and suffering scabies. He and others reported beatings, threats, pepper-spray, and inadequate food and medical care. Lawmakers cited widespread cases of Palestinian minors facing abuse within the Israeli military justice system.
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