Palestinian Prisoners’ Institutions Condemn the Crime of Storming Birzeit University Campus

January 6, 2025

Ramallah, occupied Palestine — Palestinian prisoners’ institutions strongly condemn the occupation forces’ storming of Birzeit University campus and their assault on the vigil called for by the student movement in solidarity with Palestinian political detainees held in occupation prisons, who are enduring harsh conditions of detention and systematic, escalating violations.

The incursion into the university campus—accompanied by the confiscation of student movement equipment, the firing of live ammunition and tear gas canisters, and the detention of the university’s Vice President for Academic Affairs—constitutes a blatant violation of the sanctity of educational institutions. It represents a direct and compounded attack on a range of fundamental rights, foremost among them freedom of opinion and expression and the freedom of trade-union and student activity, rights guaranteed under the rules of international law, particularly international human rights law.

Prisoners’ institutions affirm that these practices are not isolated incidents, but rather fall within the framework of a systematic colonial policy aimed at silencing the Palestinian voice, criminalizing acts of solidarity, and targeting educational spaces as central arenas of national and intellectual action. This occurs within the context of the comprehensive assault against the Palestinian people, including prisoners who have been facing extremely grave humanitarian conditions inside occupation prisons since the onset of the crime of genocide in Gaza.

Accordingly, prisoners’ institutions call upon the international community, as well as human rights and academic institutions around the world, to assume their legal and moral responsibilities and to take urgent action to condemn these serious violations, exert effective pressure on occupation authorities to halt their ongoing attacks on Palestinian universities, ensure protection for students and staff, and safeguard the right to expression and organization as an inseparable part of the right to freedom and human dignity.

🔴 The Hidden Genocide: Thousands of Palestinian Political Prisoners Suffer Severe Crimes and Extermination Behind Bars - 
December 2025 Briefing

🔴 Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society

December 25, 2025

Ramallah, occupied Palestine – The Commission of Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) have released a new briefing on the detention conditions for the more than 9,300 Palestinian political prisoners held in the Israeli occupation’s prisons and military camps, covering the month of December 2025.

The Israeli occupation’s prison system and military continues to systematically destroy Palestinian prisoners both physically and psychologically, using methods and policies that have become unprecedented in scale since the start of the genocide in occupied Gaza. The war crimes and crimes against humanity being committed against prisoners constitutes an inseparable part of the genocide as well the ongoing violent colonial erasure of the Palestinian people across all Palestinian geographies.

Lawyers of the Commission and the PPS conducted dozens of visits to Palestinian prisoners in December 2025, specifically to the Ofer, Naqab (Negev), Megiddo, Ramla Clinic, Rakevet Underground Section, Shatta, Gilboa and Janot central prisons, as well as several military camps where detainees are held including Sde Teiman and Gilad, and finally Damon prison where all female detainees are held.

Testimonies gathered and highlighted in this report show a continued severe decline in prison detention conditions, and an escalation in brutal assaults by special prison forces units. This comes alongside systematic starvation, the denial of medical treatment and healthcare, and the continuation of policies of deprivation of the most basic necessities of humane life. The occupation’s policies are aimed at violating prisoners’ human dignity through humiliation and abuse, carried out instantaneously and around the clock.

Full report in English below👇🏼

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Only Four Days Since Last Detainee Killed: New Palestinian Political Prisoner Held Without Trial or Charge Murdered in Occupation’s Ofer Prison

 Palestinian Prisoners Institutions Issue Urgent Appeal For Immediate Intervention to Stop Ongoing Genocide against Palestinian Political Prisoners

December 14, 2025

Palestinian Prisoner’s Society & Commission of Detainees Affairs

Ramallah, occupied Palestine - Israeli occupation authorities have disclosed to Palestinian officials of the General Authority of Civil Affairs of the martyrdom of 26-year-old detainee held without trial or charge, Sakhr Ahmad Khalil Za‘oul in the occupation’s “Ofer” Prison.

Za’oul is from the town of Husan in Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank. He was arrested on June 11, 2025. According to his family, he did not suffer from any illnesses prior to his arrest. It is noteworthy that he has another brother imprisoned in the occupation’s prisons - Khalil Za‘oul.

The martyrdom of Sakhr comes only four days after the martyrdom of detainee Abdulrahman Sabateen, from the same town. With his killing, the number of identified martyred political prisoners since the beginning of the genocide has risen to 86 people, while the real number is over 100 people. This figure is not final and reflects a terrifying, shocking, and unprecedented escalation. Dozens of other detainees abducted from Gaza have been martyred and subject to enforced disappearances.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) & the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs’ added that what the Israeli system of brutality practices against prisoners is nothing less than systematic genocide, carried out through public and explicit calls by leaders and ministers in the occupation government—foremost among them the fascist minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has promoted the execution of Palestinian prisoners. This occurs in parallel with the practice of slow execution against prisoners through an integrated system involving various occupation agencies, paving the way to legislate the death penalty in its final form.

The PPS & the Commission pointed out that what is happening inside the prisons has surpassed all descriptions and expressions, as the prison system and occupation agencies—including the judiciary—are institutionalizing a new post-war reality aimed at physically and psychologically destroying Palestinian prisoners through a comprehensive system of systematic crimes that constitute an integral part of the genocide. These crimes include: torture, starvation, denial of medical treatment, sexual assaults including rape, and the conversion of prisoners’ basic rights into tools of repression and torture through policies of deprivation and confiscation, in addition to horrific conditions that have led to the spread of diseases and epidemics, foremost among them scabies, which has become an additional tool of torture and killing.

The occupation does not stop at killing prisoners; it continues to withhold their bodies and deepens the crime through sham “investigations” in which the judiciary colludes, with the aim of entrenching policies that lead to the slow execution of prisoners.

With the continuation of daily crimes, the number of martyrs is expected to rise, as thousands of prisoners are held in conditions lacking the minimum requirements for life and are subjected to systematic violations including: torture, starvation, physical and sexual assaults, medical crimes, and the spread of infectious diseases—foremost among them scabies, which has once again spread widely—alongside unprecedentedly harsh policies of deprivation and confiscation.

Field executions that targeted dozens of detainees confirm the criminal nature of the occupation system. Images of prisoners’ bodies handed over after the so-called ceasefire reveal the scale of field crimes committed against them, in addition to serious and undisclosed information about the numbers of those who were executed.

The Commission and the PPS hold the occupation’s prison administration fully responsible for the martyrdom of detainee Za‘oul, and renewed their call to the international human rights system to take effective measures to hold the occupation’s leaders accountable for war crimes committed against prisoners and the Palestinian people.

They issued an urgent appeal to free people around the world to stop the systematic genocide against prisoners, to release thousands of detainees arbitrarily held, and to work seriously to impose clear international sanctions that isolate the occupation, restore the international human rights system to its fundamental role for which it was established, end the appalling state of paralysis that has afflicted it during the genocidal war, and put an end to the immunity that “Israel” continues to enjoy due to the support of international powers that treat it as an entity above the law and accountability.

It is noted that the number of Palestinian political prisoners has exceeded 9,300 people, in addition to hundreds of detainees held in camps belonging to the occupation army, including more than 50 female prisoners and approximately 350 children, while the number of administrative detainees held without trial or charge, reached 3,368 people as of last November.

Occupation forces abuse two young men during arrest and interrogation

January 4, 2026

The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs stated in a report released today, Sunday, that Israeli occupation forces persist in employing extremely violent and degrading practices against Palestinian detainees. The report notes that during arrest, detainees are exposed to multiple forms of physical and psychological abuse, including severe beatings, verbal insults, and humiliation.

The Commission presented testimonies from detainees who were assaulted at the time of their arrest, as conveyed by the Commission’s attorney, who visited a number of them, including the following cases:

Detainee Mohammad Abu Zeina (31 years old), from Jenin Refugee Camp, who is serving a six-year prison sentence, was subjected to violations by occupation forces after they stormed his workplace, a bakery in the town of Qabatiya. He was blindfolded, handcuffed, and taken to the “Dotan” military camp, before being transferred to the “Jalameh” interrogation center, where he was held for two months. During this period, he was repeatedly beaten and humiliated by interrogators.
The detainee said:
“The conditions inside the cells are extremely harsh and oppressive. There is no one to talk to, no window, and I had no awareness of time, as I did not see the sun at all throughout this period. The food is poor in both quality and quantity. Access to the bathroom is limited to once a day, and on some days bathing is completely denied. My head was shaved completely as a form of psychological abuse.”

The Commission indicated that after the interrogation phase, the detainee was transferred to Megiddo Prison and subsequently to Gilboa Prison.

Detainee Mohammad Abu Naeem (22 years old), from the town of Masiliya/Jenin, who is being held under a six-month administrative detention order, was arrested after occupation forces raided his home at approximately 1:00 a.m., blew open the door, blindfolded him, handcuffed his hands, and placed him inside a military jeep. He was then transferred to the “Jalameh” interrogation center. The following day, he was moved to Salem military camp and detained at the “Manasha” interrogation center for 45 days. He was later transferred to Megiddo Prison, where he was subjected to beatings and verbal abuse, before being moved to Gilboa Prison.
It should be noted that the detainee suffers from scabies and severe weight loss.

Palestinian Detainee Nadim Salamah Suffers Severe Injuries and Denial of Medical 

Commission of Detainees’ Affairs releases new updates on the medical condition of detainees Faisal Saba’neh and Ali Abu Atiya

December 7, 2025

The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs issued its report on Sunday, revealing critical information regarding the health conditions of detainee Faisal Saba’neh (65), from Qabatiya–Jenin, and detainee Ali Abu Atiya (29), from the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, amid ongoing deterioration in detention conditions and systematic medical neglect inside Israeli prisons.

The Commission’s attorney stated that Saba’neh, who has been held under administrative detention since 25/10/2023 and is currently confined in the Ramla prison clinic, was transferred from Nafha Prison after suffering a heart attack on 01/11/2025. He explained that he had experienced symptoms days before the incident and notified the guards of the need for medical attention, but his request was ignored.
On the day of the heart attack, Saba’neh recounted that a paramedic assaulted him prior to conducting any medical examinations. He was subsequently transferred to Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva, where he received treatment. Following his return to prison, his condition worsened once more, and on 09/11/2025 he was diagnosed with gallstones, which required moving him to the Ramla clinic for continuous intravenous antibiotics.

On 17/11/2025, he was transferred to Assaf Harofeh Hospital after new infections developed. He was treated there and returned to the Ramla clinic later the same day. According to the Commission, his condition is relatively stable at present; however, he remains under observation and may need surgery should the current treatment fail to eliminate the stones.
Saba’neh also noted that food portions in Nafha had been insufficient since his arrest, and the situation in the Ramla clinic is no different. Detainees confirmed that food rations have been steadily decreasing for nearly two months.

Regarding detainee Ali Abu Atiya, the Commission reported that he was subjected to a violent arrest on 04/11/2025 near his workplace close to the Jamal Abdel Nasser Mosque in Ramallah. Israeli special forces raided the area using a civilian bus. One of the undercover agents approached him, identified himself as part of a special unit, and ordered him not to move. After he complied, the soldier fired at him from point-blank range, striking his left thigh and causing a fracture.

Abu Atiya was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, where he underwent two consecutive surgeries: the first involved inserting an internal plate and bridge, and the second placing an external fixation device. The Commission confirmed that his condition has stabilized, though he still requires assistance to walk, after previously being unable to move without the help of fellow detainees in addition to a mobility aid.

The Commission added that Abu Atiya has already appeared in three court sessions, with another hearing scheduled for today, 07/12/2025.

The Commission holds the Israeli Prison Service fully responsible for the worsening health conditions of detainees and urges the immediate provision of adequate medical care, an end to assaults, and the cessation of deliberate medical neglect aimed at slowly destroying detainees’ lives and depriving them of their basic right to health and survival.

Three Detainees suffer from serious health conditions at “Ofer” and “Megiddo” Prisons

December 28, 2025

The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs stated in a report released today, Sunday, following field visits carried out by its legal team, that a number of detainees held in Ofer and Megiddo prisons are suffering from health problems, among them the following cases:

Detainee Nader Al-Sheikh, from the town of Beit Surik / Ramallah, who is being held under a four-month administrative detention order, is experiencing severe dental pain as a result of physical assault during his arrest, which caused the upper dental cap to fall out. Despite his urgent need for treatment, the prison administration has failed to respond to his condition. He is currently detained in Ofer Prison.

Detainee Mohammad Khalaf (19), from Al-Amari Refugee Camp / Ramallah, held under a six-month administrative detention order, is suffering from pain in his left leg and requires medical care. He is also being held in Ofer Prison.

Detainee Ahmad Abed (18), from the city of Tulkarm, is experiencing dizziness, vomiting, and acute abdominal pain, in addition to severe constipation, following an emergency gallbladder operation performed at Afula Hospital. He is presently detained in Megiddo Prison.

The Commission placed full responsibility on the Israeli Prison Service for the continued pattern of medical negligence against Palestinian detainees, and urged international bodies, human rights organizations, and the International Committee of the Red Cross to carry out their duties and intervene effectively on behalf of the detainees.

⭕️ UPDATE: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Occupation’s Custody – December 2025

December 16, 2025

These figures are based on information from Palestinian prisoners’ institutions and the Israeli occupation’s prison service up to December 2025.

👉🏼There are some 9,300 Palestinian political prisoners and detainees in the Israeli occupation’s prisons, the majority of whom are held without trial or charge, or are awaiting trial and have not yet been charged. This figure does not include detainees held in military camps run by the Israeli occupation army.

👉🏼Only 1, 254 of them have so far been sentenced by the occupation's military system according to the prison services.

👉🏼Among them are 51 Palestinian female prisoners, including two minors, held in Damon prison.

👉🏼 350 of them are Palestinian children held in the occupation’s Ofer and Megiddo prisons.

👉🏼 Palestinians held without trial or charge: Some 4,570 people - or almost HALF of all detainees - including:
- At least 3,350 Palestinians arrested from the occupied West Bank classified as “administrative detainees”.
- At least 1,220 Palestinians arrested from occupied Gaza classified as “unlawful combatants”. This figure does not include all detainees abducted from Gaza, held under this category, in military camps run by the Israeli occupation army. This category also includes Arab political detainees from Lebanon and Syria.

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

 Commission of Detainees' Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society Announce Names of Three Palestinians Abducted from Gaza and Martyred in the Occupation's Custody

December 4, 2025

Ramallah, occupied Palestine - The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) announced the names of three martyrs from among the Palestinians abducted from occupied Gaza and were killed in the occupation’s prisons and military camps in recent months. They are: Taysir Saeed al-Abd Sabbaba (60), Khamees Shukri Mer'i Ashour (44), and Khalil Ahmad Khalil Haniyeh (35).

The family of prisoner Sabbaba was officially informed by the HaMoked rights group through a response from the occupying military, while the Commission and the PPS received two responses from the army confirming the martyrdom of detainees Khamees Ashour and Khalil Haniyeh.

According to these responses, prisoner Sabbaba was killed on December 31, 2024, two months after his arrest; prisoner Khamees Ashour was killed on February 8, 2024 - one day after his arrest - and prisoner Khalil Haniyeh on December 25, 2024, nearly a year after his arrest.

The Commission and the PPS noted that Sabbaba was married and a father-of-nine; Ashour was a father-of-six; and Haniyeh a father-of-four.

The two institutions added that these three martyrs are among dozens of Palestinian political prisoners who were killed since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza and in the occupation’s prisons as a result of widespread torture, starvation, medical abuse, sexual assaults, and a host of other forms of deprivation, dispossession, abuse, humiliation, and detention in degrading conditions. Many of the detainees martyred after their abduction from Gaza remain forcibly disappeared, in addition to dozens who were executed in the field. The bodies of detainees returned after the ceasefire provided clear evidence of the systematic executions carried out by the occupying army.

The number of martyred Palestinian prisons since the start of the genocide, according to documentation by human-rights organizations and Palestinian specialized institutions, has exceeded 100 people, and this number is not final. Of these, 84 people have been identified by the relevant Palestinian institutions, including 50 detainees from Gaza. This raises the total number of Palestinian prisoner martyrs since 1967 to 321 people.

The Commission and the PPS hold the occupation authorities fully responsible for the systematic killing of Palestinian detainees, and renewed their call on the international human-rights system to take effective measures to hold occupation leaders accountable for war crimes committed against prisoners and the Palestinian people. They urged an end to the exceptional impunity granted to the Israeli occupation by the United States and other international powers for decades—impunity that reached its peak with the start of the genocide—despite clear evidence of the crime of genocide committed against Palestinians in Gaza, as well as war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against political prisoners.

The two institutions stressed that the crimes committed by the prison system against detainees are part and parcel of the ongoing genocide, through which the occupation seeks to carry out slow-motion executions. This stage has become the most violent in the history of the Palestinian prisoner movement, at a time when the occupation is attempting to legislate a law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners, turning extrajudicial executions into a legalized policy.

The PPS and the Commission noted that the vast majority of prisoners currently held in the Israeli occupation’s prisons are detained without trial—either under arbitrary “administrative detention” or classified by the occupation as “unlawful combatants.” According to available data, as of November 2025, the number of administrative detainees reached 3,368, while those classified as “unlawful combatants” numbered 1,205—a figure that does not include all Gaza detainees.