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Zaher Ibrahim

A Palestinian-American teenager who spent a nine-month period in Israel's custody absent formal charges has been freed.

The teenager Mohammed Ibrahim was 15 during his detention last February in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where he was visiting while residing in Florida for allegedly throwing stones against settlement residents, which he previously denied.

American diplomatic officials expressed satisfaction with Mohammed's liberation.

Currently aged sixteen, needed medical care upon gaining freedom, family members reported.

They said he is visibly pale and thin, and experiencing medical problems contracted in captivity.

Via family representatives, Mohammed's uncle expressed the family's "tremendous relief".

Zeyad Kadur stated the family experienced "surviving a terrible, unending nightmare" over the last nine months.

"At this moment, we're concentrating on getting Mohammed urgent medical care he needs following exposure to Israel's abuse and inhumane conditions for months."

The state department said it would continue to extend consular services for the Ibrahim family.

{"US government authorities considers paramount to the protection and welfare of American nationals"," the department emphasized.

A group of American legislators submitted a formal letter to US authorities and the White House, urging greater action for his freedom.

Mr Ibrahim, a father-of-four operating an ice cream shop from Florida, had earlier stated his son only confessed to throwing stones because the soldiers beat him.

The father hadn't visited nor direct contact since the arrest, and only heard what had happened to him via legal paperwork.

Mohammed was held lacking indictment within Ofer penitentiary throughout the occupied territory.

The facility also contains mature inmates, featuring prisoners sentenced for major terrorist activities and homicide.

There are around 350 Palestinian minors in security custody detained within Israeli facilities, per correctional service statistics.

Numerous remain uncharged and human rights groups, and international organizations, document cases involving abuse and torture.

After the teenager's freedom, Mr Kadur said relatives would persist in advocating seeking justice for their relative family member Sayfollah.

The 20-year-old dual US citizen who the Palestinian health ministry said died from beating by settlement residents amid clashes during summer.

At the time, the Israeli military said they were examining accounts of a Palestinian had been killed.

The two cousins were employed together within the family's frozen treats establishment in Tampa, Florida.

No charges have been filed regarding Sayfollah's death.

"We demand US authorities to protect our families," family representatives emphasized.