Last February, Mohammed Ibrahim — then 15 — was awoken and pulled from his bed by Israeli soldiers, who said he'd been spotted throwing stones in the occupied West Bank.
He's Palestinian-American, and his family splits their time between the Tampa area and a sprawling stone house surrounded by olive trees in this West Bank village.
"Around 3:30 in the morning, they blindfolded him, handcuffed him — they just took him," his mother, Muna Ibrahim, 46, recalls. "Since that day I didn't see my son. I didn't hear his voice."
Mohammed, a U.S. citizen, has been in Israeli prison since then, without family visits or phone calls. In March, he turned 16 behind bars, and faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
He's one of more than 9,000 Palestinians, including hundreds of children, detained in the West Bank since the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, and the Gaza war that followed, according to official Palestinian figures.
On Sunday, the Florida teen has a hearing in an Israeli military court. It's his tenth court appointment, according to his father, Zaher Ibrahim, who plans to attend. All of the previous hearings have adjourned without a plea bargain or trial date.
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