State department appoints official to handle case of American-Palestinian teen detained by Israel | Israel
The US State Department appointed a special official to address the case of Muhammad Ibrahim, a 16-year-old couple in the Israeli military prison for more than seven months.
Abraham is planned to meet with the new Ministry of Foreign Affairs points next week, and a rise in diplomatic efforts surrounding the imprisonment of Florida young man in the ORER Military Prison in the ORER Military Prison in the West Bank occupied Israel.
Ibrahim’s family intensifies the campaign to release the child. Last week, relatives attended the Capitol Hill deputies and other American families who were killed or detained by Israeli forces or settlers at a series of high -profile meeting.
This trip is with more than a dozen congress member press conference The families of Washington Eygi from the representative Pramila Jayapal and Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi were killed in the West Bank in the last two years with Seyfollah Topalet and Tawific Ajaq. In 2003, he was accompanied by the parents of American activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip. The US government did not investigate any of these deaths independently, but was postponed to Israel’s own investigations.
Guardian first reported that Ibrahim was arrested in February about the allegations of throwing rock from his family in the West Bank in February. Guardian first mentioned that Ibrahim imprisoned after reporting the alleged cousin negotiation by Israeli settlers at the family’s farm in July.
Young, during the detainees lost a significant weight and made a contract with scabies at some point. His family said they could not contact him regularly.
Guardian reached Israel’s prison service, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the army to comment. The military court documents reviewed by Guardian accuses Israeli officials of Ibrahim of Israeli of Israeli.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that it provides consular assistance to all citizens detained abroad, but would not make any more comments, considering “confidentiality and other issues”.
The case drew attention to Florida deputies, including Kathy Castor. public for release. More than 100 civil rights and beliefs in the United States also signed a letter that demanded the release of the US government and the intervention of the US government.
While participating in a protest against the settlement expansion in the West Bank, Özden Bennett, a 26 -year -old sister of Eygi, who was killed by an Israel sniper last year, grew emotionally when he was in Washington. “He feels like my little brother,” he said at a meeting with Virginia representative Jim McGoveovern. “I can’t do anything for my sister, but we can help him”.
At a meeting with Senators Jeff Merkley from Oregon and Chris Van Hollen from Maryland, he called on to go to the Release of Release to request him to release them, and Van Hollen called the Killen García, a man sent by the Trump administration despite the order of an immigration court order.
Van Hollen and Merkley met with Abraham’s father during the trips of the Middle East Delegation at the beginning of this month.
Merkley told Guardian that Ibrahim’s prison was “broken heart” to hear the prison. “He deserves humanitarian treatment and a fair case,” he added. “My colleagues and I urge Foreign Minister Rubio and Netanyahu government to protect Abraham’s basic human rights and dignity.”
