Escalated actions against 13 female detainees held in Damoun prison

■ Palestinian prisoners’ institutions: 580 cases of arrests in the occupied West Bank during January 2025 alone

Briefing paper prepared by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.
February 10, 2025
Ramallah, Palestine - In January, Israeli occupation forces carried out approximately 580 arrests in the West Bank, with the highest number of arrests recorded in Jenin and its refugee camp, which have been under an unprecedented aggression for the past 21 days.
There were 17 cases of arrest among women overall in January, and 60 cases of arrest of children below 18 years of age. Meanwhile, hundreds of Palestinians have been detained during field interrogations.
It was announced (by occupation authorities) in January 2025 that four identified Palestinian political prisoners had been killed in the Israeli occupation’s custody. Two of them were from Gaza and had been martyred months prior to the occupation’s admittance.
By the start of the ceasefire on January 19, 2025, the number of cases of arrests in the West Bank since the start of the genocide, reached 14,500. This figure does not include the number of arrests from Gaza, which are estimated to be in the thousands.
*Figures include those who remain in the occupation’s custody and those who were later released.

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Occupation denies temporary release of Palestinian female detainee to mourn father's death
February 9, 2025

Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) and Commission of Detainees' Affairs

Ramallah, Palestine - The father of Palestinian female political prisoner Shaden Qous has unexpectedly passed away in a tragic accident. Shaden, a Jerusalemite, has been held behind bars for just over a month, since 6/1/2025. She was first detained at The Russian Compound detention center (al-Mascobiyeh) where she was interrogated before being transferred to the Damon central women’s prison. She has not yet been charged with any kind of offense under Israel’s oppressive military court system, which is run by occupation soldiers. Shaden is a student at Birzeit University and a professional dancer.

The Israeli occupation has historically never allowed a Palestinian detainee to be released temporarily on compassionate grounds to attend a family member’s funeral, as a matter of policy. Israel uses its power to rid Palestinian prisoners of bidding their loved ones farewell as a form of psychological and emotional torture. Since the genocide in Gaza, dozens of Palestinian detainees - particularly those from Gaza - lost their family members in Israel’s onslaught, and were forbidden from seeing them for the last time.

Palestinian political prisoners must be afforded the human right to mourn the loss of their loved ones with their families. The current conditions for Palestinian prisoners are the worst in history. Dozens of detainees are being killed behind bars, many in obscure circumstances involving severe torture and ill-treatment. The more time passes with thousands of Palestinians in the custody of the occupation, the greater the risk to their lives and fates.

Israeli occupation responsible for lives of Palestinian detainees in Ofer Prison

Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS)
16/2/25

Ramallah, Palestine – Following a large-scale assault on Palestinian political prisoners held in Israel’s notorious Ofer Prison, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) hold the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the lives of the thousands of detainees held there.

The occupation’s prison administration said in a statement moments ago that their prison special repression units raided the cells of Palestinian detainees in Ofer, claiming that the detainees “disrupted” a “military tour of the prison” (from inside their cells). Such raids are known to be violent, oppressive and humiliating for the detainees.

The Commission and the PPS appeal to the mediators to put the issue of the severe crimes taking place against Palestinian prisoners, on the negotiating table. The systematic killing, torture, medical negligence, enforced starvation, severe beatings and the many other crimes being committed must be stopped. Since the genocide in Gaza in October 2023, at least 58 Palestinian political prisoners have been killed by Israeli prison guards.

We direct an urgent appeal to the international human rights system to fulfill the responsibilities for which it was created in the first place.

There are more than 10,000 Palestinians still held in the occupation’s custody. This figure does not include all those arrested from Gaza and have been forcibly disappeared.

Detainee Omar Abu Libdah suffers from severe detention conditions in Megiddo prison

■ Update on the number of Palestinian political prisoners for the month of February 2025, noting that this data does not include all detainees from Gaza

■ More than 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners
■ Female prisoners: 15 women, including three identified female prisoners from Gaza.
■ Children: No less than 365 minors.
■ Administrative detainees (held without trial or charge): 3369 people
■ Detainees from Gaza classified by the occupation’s prison administration as “illegal combatants”: 1802 people.

Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society

Report: New testimonies of Palestinian political detainees arrested from Gaza reveal severe abuses

Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) & the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs
February 12, 2025

Ramallah, Palestine - It has been 1.5 years since the genocide in occupied Gaza. Systematic crimes against Palestinian political prisoners continue unabated. The testimonies of Palestinian detainees arrested from Gaza continue to reveal the horrors perpetrated by the occupation, particularly during arrest and transfer of detainees to Israeli central prisons and military detention camps.

This new report is based on lawyers’ visits that took place in February 2025 to 18 Palestinian political prisoners being held at the Naqab Prison and the Sde Teiman military camp, which have become infamous for the abuses that take place there. It is also based on the dozens of testimonies lawyers’ and prisoners’ institutions gathered over the past several months. The most prominent crimes committed were torture, severe beatings, starvation and humiliation in all its forms. One of the detainees sustained broken bones as a result of being beaten while shackled, and he remained for a long period of time without treatment. Authorities continued to shackle him even after his severe injury.

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Injured detainee Mutaz Masri suffers from deliberate medical neglect in Ofer prison

Commission of Detainees’ Affairs

The majority of detainees in Israeli prisons suffer from fatigue and weight loss

Some detainees fainted and didn’t receive medical examinations