#israeli-detention

#israeli-detention

A group of United States lawmakers have urged the Trump administration to secure the release of a 16-year-old Palestinian American who has been held in Israeli detention centres for eight months. In a letter sent to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, 27 members of the US Congress called for the release of Mohammed Ibrahim amid reports that he faces abusive conditions in detention.

The activists, including doctors and journalists, were in a group of nine boats headed to Gaza that were all seized by Israeli officials, per the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. They were in international waters just 120 nautical miles from the coast of the Strip when Israel seized the vessels and detained all of those aboard, which activists said was tantamount to kidnapping and is a "clear violation of international law." The vessels were carrying $110,000 worth of aid, including medicine and nutritional supplies, the group said.