Israel imprisons underaged’s without judicial interventions.

Israeli authorities have been detaining an American teenager for nearly six months without trial for allegedly throwing rocks at Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, a claim the 16 years old family denies while expressing concern for his deteriorating health. Mohammed Ibrahim, a Palestinian -American who was born in the US state of Florida, has been completely cut off from his family since his arrest in February without visitation or telephone rights, his father and uncle said.

According to the family, United States officials visited Mohammed in detention weeks after he was arrested. But an email from a consular officer suggests that the officials were unable to gain access to him earlier in July. “The Israel Prison Service updated us yesterday that your son suffers from scabies, and he is being treated by a doctor. We requested an update regarding his healing”, the email said. Scabies, caused by an infestation of mites, causes extreme itching and rashes across the body.

Mohammed’s relatives say his ordeal underscores the US’s unwillingness to protect even its own citizens from Israeli abuses. “It’s obvious we get swept under the rug. And as far as getting help or investigations or some type of justice, we don’t know”, said Zeyad Kadur, Mohammed’s uncle.

At Megiddo Prison, the same facility where Mohammed is being held, a 17 years old detainee Walid Ahmad died in March due to “prolonged malnutrition”, according to DCI-P. Walid, who had been held for six months without a charge, also suffered from scabies.

20 years old American citizen Sayfollah Musallet, who was beaten to death by settlers in the occupied West Bank on 15^th. July, 2025, was attributed as a terrorist killing. Another Palestinian, identified by health officials as, Mohammed Shalabi, was shot dead by settlers during the same attack that killed Musallet on Friday.

Israel said it was “investigating” what happened in Sinjil, claiming that the violence started when Musallet along with a handful Palestinians threw rocks at an Israeli vehicle. Shortly thereafter, violent clashes developed in the area between Palestinians and Israeli civilians, which included the destruction of Palestinian property, arson, physical confrontations, and stone-throwing, the Israeli military said in a statement. But Musallet’s family has disputed any account of “clashes”, saying that a “mob” of settlers surrounded the young Palestinian American for three hours during the attack and prevented medics from reaching him.

Palestinians in the West Bank are tried in Israeli military courts that have a near 100-percent conviction rate. But settlers are mostly prosecuted under Israeli criminal law, and they rarely face accountability for attacks on Palestinians.

That two-tiered legal approach is a facet of what leading rights groups call a system of apartheid against Palestinians. Israeli settlers can come to anyone, shoot them in their head, and walk home to sleep. The Palestinian, if possesses his own plot of land in front of his house, and, the settlers break down to burn his car and, he pushes them away, he’ll be charged.

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