Democrats demand immediate release of Palestinian-American teen held in Israeli prison

<p>Group of 27 Congress members wrote to Marco Rubio to call for ‘swift release’ of 16-year-old Mohammed Ibrahim</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/oct/22/donald-trump-ice-immigration-shutdown-courts-nato-us-politics-live-news-updates">US politics live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>More than two dozen Democratic lawmakers have written to secretary of state Marco Rubio and the US ambassador to Israel demanding the immediate release of Mohammed Ibrahim, a 16-year-old Palestinian-American citizen who has been held in Israeli military detention for nearly eight months.</p><p>Ibrahim, a dual Palestinian-American teenager from Florida, was arrested in a raid on his family’s West Bank home in February when he was 15 years old. Israeli forces allegedly blindfolded and handcuffed the boy at 3am, according <a href="https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/mohammed_zaher_ibrahim_letter.pdf">to the letter</a> led by senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley and representatives Kathy Castor and Maxwell Frost.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/22/democrats-demand-release-mohammed-ibrahim">Continue reading...</a>