My little boy was abducted by his dad and taken to the Middle East – no one is helping | The Sun
A MUM has spoken of her torment after her seven-year-old son was abducted by his dad and taken to Saudi Arabia.
Hamzah Ibrahim Faraj breached a court order banning him from taking Ibrahim Faraj out of the country in November last year.
The boy's mum Ranem Elkhalidi, 25, has not seen or spoken to Ibrahim since he left his home in Cheshire.
She has now revealed her fears at British-born Ibrahim feeling "lost" in Saudi Arabia as he only speaks English.
Ranem said: "I miss Ibrahim every moment of every day, I wake up sobbing, calling his name.
“I knew Hamzah might try to take him, and I warned the courts, social services, the embassy. But because I had Ibrahim’s passport, they told me he was safe.
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“Ibrahim is British, he was born here, and he only speaks English. He will be completely lost in Saudi Arabia.”
Ranem dropped her son off at school on Friday, November 11 before he was due to spend the weekend at his dad's.
The chef told how she usually hugged Ibrahim and told him she loved him before saying goodbye but had been "distracted" by a teacher that morning.
She added: "I had no idea that was the last time I would see him. It breaks my heart I didn’t get to tell him how much I love him.”
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The alarm was raised on Monday morning when Ibrahim failed to show up at school.
Ranem tried calling her estranged husband but his phone was off and he had blocked her on social media.
Police at first told Ranem her son couldn't have left the country because he didn't have his passport on him.
But officers later discovered Hamzah had applied for a passport from Saudi Arabia and flown from Manchester airport that weekend.
The dad was subject to a family court order banning him from taking Ibrahim out of the UK at the time.
It came after Ranem warned the authorities in the months leading to Ibrahim's abduction that her ex was likely to take their son.
Ranem said: “I was worried about him taking Ibrahim. I told everyone I could, but they all said Ibrahim would be safe because I had all his travel documents.
“Now, I just feel absolutely helpless. As an asylum seeker, I cannot go to Saudi Arabia to look for him and anyway I don’t even know where he is.
“I think of him every minute of the day. I wake up at night, sobbing and crying out for him."
The desperate mum has now reached out to her local MP Mike Amesbury, who has raised the issue in the House of Commons.
She has also started a Facebook page called Missing Son to help bring Ibrahim home.
Hamzah is now wanted by police for child abduction after breaching the custody order.
A spokesperson for Cheshire Police said: "On Monday 14 November 2022, police received reports that a child had been taken out of the country by their father without permission from their mother.
"It was reported that seven-year-old Ibrahim Faraj had been taken to Saudi Arabia by his father, which was in breach of the custody order which was made at Liverpool Family Court on 3 November 2022.
"Following the reports officers have been engaging closely with both parents, but despite their best efforts he has not yet been returned to the UK.
"Therefore, the father of the child has now been circulated as wanted for child abduction on the national police database.
"All the appropriate authorities have been made aware and officers are continuing to do all they can to return the child to the UK."
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