"Words can't describe the immense relief we have as a family right now, to have Mohammed in his parents' arms, Zeyad Kadur, a close family friend, wrote in a statement, adding the family has been living a horrific and endless nightmare over the last nine months. Israeli soldiers had no right to take Mohammed from us in the first place, he said."
"Ibrahim was arrested in a raid on his family's West Bank home in February when he was still 15 years old, with Israeli forces allegedly blindfolding and handcuffing him in the middle of the night. He was charged with two counts of throwing objects at moving vehicles, according to court documents reviewed by the Guardian. The case first gained attention after 20-year-old American-Palestinian Sayfollah Musallet was allegedly beaten to death by Israeli settlers in mid-July."
Sixteen-year-old Mohammed Ibrahim, a Palestinian-American from Florida, was released after nine months in Israeli custody following a guilty plea and suspended sentence. He was arrested in a February raid on his family's West Bank home when he was 15, allegedly blindfolded and handcuffed, and charged with two counts of throwing objects at moving vehicles. Ibrahim lost about a quarter of his body weight, developed scabies, and appeared severely underweight and pale on release. He was taken immediately for intravenous therapy and blood work. The case drew attention after the alleged mid-July beating death of his cousin, Sayfollah Musallet, and the US State Department engaged because of his citizenship.
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