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

Group of 27 Congress members wrote to Marco Rubio to call for ‘swift release’ of 16-year-old Mohammed IbrahimUS politics live – latest updatesMore 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.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 to the letter led by senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley and representatives Kathy Castor and Maxwell Frost. Continue reading...