Palestinian-American teenager Mohammed Ibrahim has been released from Israeli prison, nine months after his middle-of-the-night arrest. He described to MEE the "unbelievable feeling" of being reunited with his loved ones, and that he was relieved to "come out safe" on account of the treatment he endured. Mohammed's family, who haven't seen him face-to-face since February, had urged American lawmakers that he was ill, poorly fed, and rapidly losing weight. Speaking with MEE, his father Zahar said

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert criticised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and its “political war” on Gaza in an interview with CNN on Tuesday. Pointing to ministers’ calls to starve Gaza’s population, Olmert asked: “What is this, if not a war crime?” Olmert had recently published an opinion piece in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz calling Israel’s war on Gaza “a war of annihilation” and speaking out against the “indiscriminate, limitless, cruel” killing of civilians. He i

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