Mohammed Jamal Haroub is 17. He has spent a full year in administrative detention, and a second has begun behind bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Israeli forces took him from his home in Dura, in the Hebron governorate, in the middle of the night. He was 16. His family woke that night to knocking on the door. Mohammed walked out into detention with no end in sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On May 10, 2025, his life of papers, pens, and schoolbooks gave way to courts, military orders, and prisons. The occupation placed him in administrative detention, and its courts have renewed the order three times: six months, six months, then four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is held in Ofer prison, in the children’s section. His family gets word of him from released prisoners and limited lawyer visits. His mother says: “At the last lawyer’s visit, he reassured us about Mohammed. He told us Mohammed had been suffering from scabies but received the treatment he needed, and that his health is good.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mohammed’s health may be stable. His future is not. He had reached a turning point in his schooling. This year he was supposed to start high school on the science track, the first step toward his dream of studying chemistry. All of it is on hold now, with no date set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He left a real gap at school. A top student, he threw himself into the school broadcasts. He could hold a room when he spoke. In tenth grade he wrote a book he still dreams of publishing. His age never got in the way of his pen or his big ideas. His mother says: “Mohammed was ahead of his generation. He was the youngest in his class, but I watched him rush toward his dreams and ambitions, always trying to reach his goals fast.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mohammed Haroub is one of about 350 children the occupation holds in its prisons, split between the children’s sections at Ofer and Megiddo. Most of their families hear nothing about them. The occupation denies them family visits and blocks much of the clothing and basic supplies that would make detention easier to bear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They are cut off from the world beyond the cell walls. Their days run on roll call, morning and evening, in place of class. Court papers and fresh detention orders stand in for schoolbooks. Food is scarce. Blankets and clothes, when they come at all, are the bare minimum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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