Starving and Abandoned: A Palestinian American Child in Israeli Detention
An interview with the father of Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim, the 16-year-old Palestinian American jailed in Israel's notorious Megiddo prison
On Wednesday, I spoke with the family of Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim, the 16-year-old Palestinian American boy who has been jailed in Israel’s notorious Megiddo prison since February, accused of throwing a rock on an empty street. He has lost at least a quarter of his body weight and has contracted a severe case of scabies. They have every reason to fear for his life and are desperate to get him home before he meets the same fate as several of his fellow prisoners, who have died from torture, disease, and starvation. As I wrote last week, until a July 31 Guardian story, the Western press had never mentioned his name, and since then, not a single major American outlet has covered it, despite his family’s desperate pleas for help.
Before you watch the interview below, I want to share Al Jazeera’s new reporting on the July 11 lynching that left two young Palestinians dead, including Mohammed’s first cousin, 20-year-old Sayfollah “Saif” Musallet. Mohammed and Saif were supposed to spend this summer working together in the family’s Tampa ice cream shop.
As you read this, remember that the violent settlers in the West Bank have the full backing of the Israeli government. Many of their guns came from the US.
Saif spent the afternoon of July 11 walking through the olive groves of al-Baten with friends. When the settlers showed up and began throwing rocks, there were about a dozen at first, then nearly 70 armed with clubs and guns, sweeping down from the hills and roaring in on trucks from Highway 60. They hunted the boys for hours—chasing them in packs, cutting off escape routes, running them down with trucks, and firing indiscriminately in their direction. Anyone caught was beaten and tortured; one was shot.
That was 23-year-old Muhammad “Rizik” al-Shalabi, who injured his leg while jumping over a stone wall. Even then, he tried to carry a wounded boy to safety before settlers surrounded him, shot him in the chest, and left him to die.
Another young man was captured by a gang of nine settlers and tied up. Witnesses say they beat him with their weapons, shattering his knee, before dragging him into a car, firing bullets around him, and throwing him to the ground again and again until he begged to be killed. One settler replied, “I’m not going to kill you. I’m going to chop off your arms and your legs and throw you on the side of the road like a dog.”
Saif was struck in the back with a rock and collapsed. Settlers swarmed, beating him with clubs and sticks. When they left him, he staggered away, dazed, before collapsing beneath an oak tree. There, for two and a half hours, he vomited and struggled to breathe as his condition worsened. His friends called desperately for help, but Israeli military drones circled overhead, dropping tear gas on villagers trying to reach him. Settlers and soldiers blocked ambulances, shattering windshields and stalling their entry.
It took more than two hours for an ambulance crew to finally reach Saif. By the time they carried him back across the hills, he was dead.
Rizik’s body wasn’t found until 10 pm. In addition to being shot, “it was clear that he had been badly beaten by settlers - his hand was clenched and his arm contorted.”
When all was said and done, two were dead, more than 50 were injured, and not a single settler was charged.
In our interview, Zaher, Mohammed’s father, recalled what Saif’s father told Ambassador Mike Huckabee when the two Palestinian American men met him—one seeking justice for his murdered son, the other fighting to free his son from military detention:
“They took my son away. We can do nothing about that. But can you give us something back, give us some happiness back? Can you at least get Mohammed out of jail?”
Here’s my interview with Zaher, edited for clarity and concision.
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Here’s this week’s roundup. I’m leading with the West Bank this week, because as I’ve written before, “While the situation in Gaza grows more catastrophic by the day, you could take it out of the picture entirely—and what Israel is doing to the West Bank would still rank among the most brazen geopolitical crimes I’ve seen in my lifetime. My friends over there send me stories and footage of soldier and settler brutality nearly every day, and it rarely, if ever, makes the news.”
West Bank
State Violence
In July, Israeli soldiers at a Sebastia checkpoint beat 25-year-old Khaled Azem, forced him at gunpoint to say “I love Israel” and “I will do everything they ask of me” on camera, and uploaded the video to his Facebook account. (AJ)
On Monday, thirty Palestinian families from the Arab al-Jahalin community in Ain Ayoub, northwest of Ramallah, dismantled their homes and fled after weeks of settler arson attacks, livestock poisoning, and harassment, carried out under Israeli army protection. (Haaretz)
An off-duty Israeli soldier shot dead 35-year-old Thamin Khalil Reda Dawabsheh in Duma after settlers building an illegal outpost on the town’s land assaulted a 14-year-old boy and opened fire on residents who tried to intervene. Ten years earlier, settlers burned three members of the Dawabsheh family alive in their home. (AJ, X)
The rabbi and Palestinian rights activist Arik Ascherman was attacked by settlers in Jaba:
Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian villages of Abu Falah and Duma, uprooting olive trees and warning residents not to enter their own land, while in Shallalat al-Auja near Jericho, settlers stormed the village in a campaign to cut off its Bedouin community from vital farmland and water sources. (MEE)
Three separate overnight settler raids on Friday left a Palestinian couple in Susya (in Masafer Yatta) hospitalized with head wounds after being beaten with clubs and stones, homes and cars in Atara torched with Molotov cocktails, and three young men injured in al-Mazra’a al-Sharqiya, where Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim and Saif Musallet’s families live. (Times of Israel)
Armed settlers from the Karmei Tzur outpost, backed by Israeli forces, raided Halhul north of Hebron, leaving a woman with a severe head injury, and a child and another family member wounded. (MEE)
Hours after settlers attacked the village of al-Mughayyir and torched several cars, Israeli forces stormed in, shot 18-year-old Hamdan Mussa Mohammed Abu Alia in the back, and detained him. He later died from his injuries. (Quds)
Settlers established a new illegal outpost near the Shakara Bedouin community outside Nablus, bulldozing land just 400 meters from residents. (Anadolu)
The Times reported on the explosion in settler violence in the West Bank, framing it as a rogue problem the government has failed to stop; in reality, as I unpacked in a thread on X, it is a coordinated state project of ethnic cleansing to seize “Greater Israel.” (NYT)
Accelerating Annexation
Israel is set to approve construction of 3,400 settler homes in the E1 area, a project that would split the West Bank in two and, in Bezalel Smotrich’s words, “bury the idea of a Palestinian state” by replacing the “Palestinian dream” with “a Jewish reality.” For more on this, read my piece in The Baffler, The Annexation of the West Bank is Complete. (Haaretz)
Palestine’s Higher Presidential Committee of Church Affairs warned of an “unprecedented” Israeli assault on Christian institutions, citing the freezing of the Orthodox Patriarchate’s bank accounts, crippling new taxes, and land seizures around the Monastery of Saint Gerasimus near Jericho, alongside settlement expansion and church property takeovers in Jerusalem’s Old City. (Anadolu)
Israel has cut Hebron’s water supply by over 40 percent since May, leaving some families with running water only once every two months, tripling tanker prices, and dropping Palestinian consumption to 60 liters a day—five times less than nearby settlers in Kiryat Arba. (New Arab)
France condemned Israel’s demolition of a French- and EU-funded school under construction in the northern West Bank—the second French-funded project destroyed after East Jerusalem’s Al-Bustan center. (Anadolu)
Gaza
War Plan
Israel’s plan to seize Gaza City has been blasted from all sides—foreign leaders warn it will lock the country in “permanent war,” the Israeli left says it risks hostages’ lives, and the right says it doesn’t go far enough. Netanyahu has offered no clear goals, no timeline, and no explanation for how it will avoid repeating his failed 2023 capture of the city, making this his third major escalation in five months without defeating Hamas or freeing captives. (NYT)
Haaretz defense analyst Amos Harel says Netanyahu’s plan is less about defeating Hamas—now a decentralized insurgency—and more about prolonging the war to avoid an October 7 investigation, delay his corruption trial, and keep far-right allies happy. (NYT)
On Sunday, hundreds of thousands of Israelis staged strikes and blocked highways demanding a hostage deal and an end to the war. Netanyahu accused them of harming the chances of returning the hostages and “guaranteeing the horrors of October 7 will return.” A truck attempted to ram into a group of protesters from Nir Oz in Central Tel Aviv. (Haaretz)
Assassination of Anas al-Sharif
Israel assassinated 28-year-old Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif—Gaza’s most prominent remaining reporter and winner of the Pulitzer Prize—and five of his colleagues in a strike on the network’s well-known media tent at the gates of al-Shifa Hospital. Friends remembered him as a fearless journalist and mentor who refused to leave Gaza, convinced it was his duty to keep telling its stories even after his father was killed in an airstrike, he endured constant death threats, and watched colleagues get assassinated one by one. (Intercept)
This brings the total of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since October 7 to 242.
Minutes before he was killed, al-Sharif had warned on X of “relentless bombardment” and written, “If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced… and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
The assassination came after months of threats that began with calls ordering him to stop reporting, escalated to his inclusion on an October 2024 hit list of six Al Jazeera journalists, and culminated in an open smear campaign accusing him of being a Hamas commander.
Al Jazeera reported that the Israeli military’s final threat to Anas al-Sharif was a phone call warning, “We will break your back with your wife and children, Anas. We know their location and will kill them.”
Israel’s two most popular newspapers celebrated the assassination:
+972 reported on the Israeli military’s secret “Legitimization Cell,” tasked with mining Gaza intelligence for propaganda, fabricating or distorting evidence to brand journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, as Hamas operatives to justify killing them. (+972)
US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce echoed Israel’s claim that Sharif was “part of Hamas,” dismissed calls for an independent probe, and said Washington would defer to Israel to investigate itself. (MEE)
Two Opinions on Killing Journalists
Mohammed El-Kurd wrote about the well-meaning but counterproductive instinct to “dispel the connection between slain Palestinian journalists and their supposed political leanings”: “It is not enough for a Palestinian to be a journalist to be deemed human; they must be ‘unaffiliated.’ Otherwise, in accordance with Zionist logic, they cannot be grievable or included in the official death toll; slaughtering them is cause for celebration.” (El-Kurd)
Meanwhile, a publication called Future of Jewish with 78,000 subscribers published a point-by-point defense of assassinating journalists, arguing that waging narrative warfare that shapes global opinion and constrains IDF operations—like using “biased hashtags”—meets the legal definition of “direct participation in hostilities,” forfeiting civilian protection under the laws of war.
A Message to Future Generations
In a leaked recording, Israel’s Military Intelligence chief from 2021 through April 2024, Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva said, “For every person who was killed on October 7, 50 Palestinians must die. No matter if they are children. I’m not speaking out of revenge, I’m speaking out of a message to future generations... They need a Nakba every now and then to feel the price."
As attacks intensified across Gaza this week, the Health Ministry’s official death toll is approaching 62,000, a figure most experts believe is far below the true toll.
At least 123 Palestinians, including 21 aid-seekers, were killed and 437 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Wednesday. All seven members of the Abu Hanidek family, including five children, were killed when Israel bombed their refugee tent. (AJ)
Israeli naval forces shot a fisherman dead off the coast of Gaza. (MEE)
On Saturday, Israeli fighter jets struck tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal neighborhood, killing three civilians and wounding several others. (MEE)
An Israeli airstrike killed a 2.5-month-old baby girl and her parents in their tent in Gaza’s “safe zone” of Muwasi. (AP)
Israel ramped up bombardment of Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood on Saturday, killing at least 62, as it prepares to “conquer” the city and “relocate” its population of about one million people, luring them to the south with tents and shelter equipment. (Haaretz)
Israel destroyed 400 homes in Zeitoun in less than a week, displacing over 90,000 people with quadcopters, booby-trapped robots, and shelling. (Anadolu)
As of this writing, Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have killed at least 38 Palestinians in the past 24 hours. (Haaretz)
General Annihilation
In Gaza, where 97% of educational facilities have been damaged, students are trading their dreams for the daily struggle to find food. “We have been saying for a long time that we want to live, we want to get educated, we want to travel. Now we are saying we want to eat,” a university student said. Another said, “All my memories were [at the university] – my ambitions, my goals. I was achieving a dream there. It was a life for me. When I used to go to the institute, I felt psychologically at ease.” (Reuters)
Doctors are collapsing in Gaza City’s Eye Hospital operating rooms from malnutrition and are being put on IV drips so they can keep working. (Anadolu)
The Guardian reports that over 600 children have died while awaiting Israeli approval for medical evacuation, with more than 16,000 still in need. (Guardian)
Gaza’s collapsing health system is now battling outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant disease, with experts warning that widespread malnutrition, mass injuries, and severe shortages of medical supplies will lead to longer, deadlier illnesses and faster transmission. (Guardian)
Sewage water flooded the emergency department at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, with its director warning the facility will collapse if the leak—located in an Israeli-controlled military “red zone” requiring 72 hours’ coordination to access—isn’t fixed immediately. (Reuters)
In Gaza’s Muwasi displacement camp, families are rationing murky, contaminated water in triple-digit heat, with many forced to drink brackish well water or even seawater as fuel shortages, bomb damage, and Israeli restrictions cripple pipelines and desalination plants. (AP)
Only nine prosthetic specialists remain in Gaza to serve nearly 4,000 amputees—10% of them children—amid a total blockade on materials. (Le Monde)
UNRWA reports that 83% of people with disabilities in Gaza have lost essential equipment such as wheelchairs, crutches, and hearing aids, forcing many to crawl or remain bedridden, and leaving them unable to access aid. (Anadolu)
Starvation Crisis
Israel has killed 258 Palestinians in Gaza through forced starvation—up from 217 last week—including 110 children. (AJ)
Doctors at Nasser Hospital are receiving 10–20 severely malnourished children a day, some weighing a third of what they should. (Reuters)
A disabled five-year-old child died of malnutrition, weighing less than seven pounds, down from 26 pounds before being starved. (Anadolu)
A 20-year-old woman evacuated from Gaza to Italy on a humanitarian flight died in a Pisa hospital from severe malnutrition. (Guardian)
Fifteen-year-old Lujayn writes from Gaza of $100 flour, $140 sugar, men selling their hearing aids to feed their kids, and people risking death for a box from the GHF. “I swear there is no pain greater than watching an infant who doesn’t even have energy to cry gasp its last breath before the world’s eyes… because milk has apparently become a forbidden weapon in the eyes of the occupation.” (Nation)
Aid Wars
Netanyahu said, “If we had wanted starvation, if that had been our policy, 2 million Gazans wouldn’t be living today after 20 months… It’s the same with genocide — if we had wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon.”
He claimed Israel never halted aid—something he himself announced in March—and said the GHF “didn’t work as we wanted, it didn’t succeed because there weren’t enough points, etc., so we learned our lesson.” Humanitarian experts, of course, warned from the start that slashing aid sites from 400+ to four would cause mass death. (Times of Israel)
At Egypt’s Rafah border, aid for Gaza is piling up in warehouses and roadsides as Israel rejects shipments over missing stickers, tilted pallets, and other technicalities—including blocking one truck for carrying “illegal medicines”—with only 30–50 of 200–300 daily trucks getting through. (Reuters)
A BBC investigation found that on 10 separate occasions aid was parachuted into areas where the Israeli military had warned Palestinians they would be killed if they entered. (BBC)
Defense for Children International–Palestine reports that Israeli forces abducted 16-year-old Omar Asfour from an aid site in Gaza, held him for 26 days at Sde Teiman prison camp, and subjected him to beatings, electric shocks, starvation, hanging upside down from a rooftop, solitary confinement in a one-meter cage, and sleep deprivation before releasing him without charge. (DCIP)
The US dropped plans for a new Gaza aid mechanism and will instead expand the GHF. (Times of Israel)
The Day After
Ari Ben-Menashe, an ex-Israeli spy tied to Iran-Contra who’s lobbied for Mugabe, Myanmar’s junta, and Sudan’s generals, is pushing to install former Palestinian Authority official and businessman Samir Hulileh—who has ties to Trump allies—as Gaza’s post-war governor, in a $53B Gulf-backed plan he says would be “good for the Jews.” (Ynet)
Israel is reportedly in talks with South Sudan to “resettle” Palestinians from Gaza to the war-torn country. (AP)
Ceasefire
Senior Hamas official Basem Naim told Drop Site his message to Trump is to reject Netanyahu’s “agenda of extermination” and back a deal to end the Gaza genocide. He reiterated Hamas’s offer to release all Israeli captives and hand Gaza’s governance to a 15-member technocratic committee with no Hamas ties. The proposal also includes a multi-year truce and integrating Hamas fighters into a Palestinian army, in exchange for Israel’s full withdrawal, the lifting of the siege, unrestricted UN-led aid, and the release of 200 long-term prisoners plus 2,000 Gazans detained since October 7. (Drop Site)
On Saturday, Netanyahu rejected a U.S.-backed plan for a phased ceasefire and hostage release. (JPost)
End Times
ICJ vice-president Julia Sebutinde, the sole judge to oppose the court’s genocide and occupation rulings against Israel, said God “is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel” and claimed Middle East events signal the “end times.” (MEE)
Dog News
An IDF recon unit had a dog for the explicit purpose of “entering suspicious buildings” ahead of them, but deemed that sending it to inspect a dead Palestinian was “too dangerous” when they could throw explosives at it instead. In the end, they “inspected” the body with a bulldozer, and the dog was removed from the unit. (INN)
Israel
Greater Israel
Netanyahu told i24 he feels he is on a “historic and spiritual mission” and is very attached to the vision of a Greater Israel, meaning full Israeli control from the river to the sea. (Times of Israel)
Bickering Génocidaires
Defense Minister Israel Katz accused IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir of bypassing standard procedure for senior officer promotions. (Israel Hayom)
Zamir believes Netanyahu’s family has “marked” him for dismissal over his opposition to expanding the Gaza offensive. (Times of Israel)
Criminal Justice Reform
The number of Palestinians in Israeli jails has hit a 25-year high at 10,800, including over 450 children, and 3,613 held without charge or trial. (MEE)
ICYMI, I talked about the Israeli hostage vs. Palestinian prisoner double standard with Francesca Fiorentini. (If you read last week’s newsletter, this will be repetitive.)
Here’s the full interview—I come on at 1:01.
Speaking of the double standard, note the comment below from a Yellow Ribbon account:
Nearly two years after the Oct. 7 attack, Israel has not prosecuted a single suspect, despite holding at least 200 Palestinians accused of direct involvement and roughly 2,700 others swept up in Gaza. Rights groups say most are detained without charge or trial under sweeping gag orders, effectively erased from public record, and at least 48 have died in custody. Former detainees describe beatings, broken bones, and electric shocks, while lawmakers admit prosecutions may be delayed into 2026 to avoid political fallout and hostage deal complications. (NYT)
Far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir entered the cell of Marwan Barghouti—the “Nelson Mandela of Palestine,” a senior Fatah leader and the most popular prospective Palestinian presidential candidate, serving five life sentences for attacks during the Second Intifada—who appeared visibly emaciated, and told him: “You will not win… we will wipe [you] out.” (BBC)
Snooze
The leaked recording of Israel’s former Military Intelligence chief also included this admission: “On Oct. 6, the day before the Hamas assault, Haliva was on vacation with his family in the southern resort city of Eilat. Hours before the attack, he was woken by a phone call warning of troubling signs of Hamas activity along the border, but he downplayed the report and went back to sleep.” (Haaretz)
Popular Opinion
A Haaretz op-ed urges Israelis to stop hiding behind “I’m not my government” disclaimers and instead call out the Gaza war as genocide—not because it’s bad for Israel, but because killing 60,000 Palestinians is immoral, demanding escalated disruption until the massacre ends. (Haaretz)
Three women arrested at an anti-Gaza war protest in Tel Aviv were strip-searched down to their bras and underwear for a disorderly conduct charge. (Haaretz)
Bedfellows
The Genesis Prize Foundation, dubbed the “Jewish Nobel,” announced Monday that its $1 million award to Argentina’s neo-fascist president Javier Milei will fund a new initiative to deepen ties between Israel and Latin America. Milei, the prize’s first non-Jewish recipient, previously appointed a Nazi to head Argentina’s state lawyers. (Forward)
Shining Light of Democracy
Israeli forces arrested at least 42 Palestinian workers, most from Gaza, in Nazareth, forcing them to kneel in the street before forcing them on a humiliation parade through the city. (New Arab)
US
Biden Admin’s Revisionist History
In a WSJ op-ed, Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken pitched a “time-bound, conditions-based” plan for recognizing a Palestinian state—promising it only if Palestinians disarm, accept strict limits on sovereignty, and meet Israeli-approved behavior standards, like a dog allowed out of its crate only if it doesn’t beg or bark. (WSJ)
Jacob Lew, Biden’s ambassador to Israel, and David Satterfield, his special envoy for Middle East humanitarian issues, argued in Foreign Affairs that the administration’s unconditional support for Israel’s war “prevented a humanitarian crisis” in Gaza by giving Netanyahu the political space to avoid a total blockade. They acknowledged the Israeli military never produced evidence that Hamas was looting UN aid, yet offered no explanation for why Biden still cut funding for UNRWA. They touted the failed maritime pier, claiming the “rough waters” that broke it apart in less than a month couldn’t have been anticipated—and admitted for the first time that Netanyahu asked Biden to build it—and described endorsing “nebulous plans” from Yoav Gallant, who had vowed to starve Gaza, to gradually “chip away” at Israel’s own starvation policy. Ultimately, they embraced the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and closed by repeating the lie that Hamas alone could end the war by freeing the hostages. (Foreign Affairs)
The Democrats
On Pod Save America, Pete Buttigieg provided non-answers to questions on blocking arms sales—“We need to insist that… American weaponry to Israel is not going to things that shock the conscience”—on whether U.S. policy should change—“You put your arm around your friend when there’s something like this going on, and talk about what we’re prepared to do together”—and on recognizing a Palestinian state—“I think that's a profound question that arouses a lot of the biggest problems that have happened with Israel's survival.”
After online backlash, presumably recognizing how much public opinion had shifted, he revised his answers, telling Politico he would have supported Bernie Sanders’ arms embargo, opposed another blanket 10-year weapons deal, and backed recognizing a Palestinian state as part of a negotiated two-state solution.
Soon after, Senators Amy Klobuchar and Elissa Slotkin signaled they, too, would have blocked the arms sale. (NYMag)
DNC leaders are pressuring a committee member to drop a resolution calling for an arms embargo, aid suspension, ceasefire, and recognition of Palestine. (Intercept)
The Republicans
The U.S. suspended all visitor visas for Gaza residents after far-right activist Laura Loomer sparked a social media firestorm over Palestinians who had arrived on temporary medical-humanitarian visas. (AJ)
Gaza Must Die?
Mount Sinai Hospital fired a social worker for refusing to remove a “Gaza Must Live” postcard from her desk. (Jewish Currents)
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot was briefly suspended from X after repeatedly stating that Israel and the U.S. are committing genocide in Gaza—citing ICJ, UN, Amnesty, and B’Tselem findings. (Quds)
A federal class-action suit accuses the NYPD of resuming banned “kettling” tactics against pro-Palestinian protesters and seeks a court order to stop police from “violently disrupting” demonstrations. (NYT)
Genocide, But Make It Civil
Columbia and five other universities will let applicants submit “civility transcripts” from an online program where teens debate hot-button topics, such as Israel-Palestine, and rate each other’s listening skills. The goal is to figure out if the applicant is “a nice person.” (Forward)
Economy of Genocide
Drop Site reported that Palo Alto Networks, a U.S.-based cybersecurity giant, added to the ranks of 1,400 former Israeli spies already working in U.S. tech through its $25B purchase of Israeli cybersecurity firm CyberArk, giving them access to vast global data. Israel’s Unit 8200, whose veterans make up 900 of those in the network, has helped run Gaza’s “mass assassination factory” and develop AI surveillance systems targeting Palestinians. (Drop Site)
Microsoft launched an “urgent” inquiry after a Guardian investigation revealed Israel’s Unit 8200 used its Azure cloud to store intercepted Palestinian calls and data used to pick bombing targets in Gaza. (Guardian)
Nothing To See Here
Las Vegas police arrested Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a top Israeli cybersecurity official under Netanyahu, in a child predator sting and charged him with luring a child for sex. He was swiftly released and returned to Israel. (Guardian)
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