Israeli authorities have freed Palestinian American teenager Mohammed Ibrahim after more than nine months of detention, in a case that advocates say embodies Israeli abuses against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Mohammed’s release on Thursday came after a months-long pressure campaign from United States lawmakers and civil rights groups.

The teenager from Florida was 15 years old in February when he was arrested and taken from his family home in the town of al-Mazraa ash-Sharqiya, near Ramallah.

He turned 16 while being held in Israeli jail, where he drastically lost weight and contracted a skin infection.

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