Two detainees in “Negev Prison” subjected to deliberate medical negligence

October 19, 2025

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reported on Sunday, following a visit by its lawyer, that two detainees being held in the Negev Prison are suffering from severe health conditions.

The first case concerns detainee Jihad Youssef (19 years old) from Qalqilya, who is being held under administrative detention. He has been diagnosed with scabies, a skin disease that requires urgent treatment, and is also suffering from swelling in the groin area. Youssef told the Commission’s lawyer that detention conditions remain difficult, noting that detainees continue to face frequent searches and daily raids. He added that authorities are enforcing collective punishment measures without justifications, such as denying detainees their recreation time, limiting access to cleaning materials, and failing to provide adequate clothing.

The second case involves detainee Mohammad Raja (27 years old) from Ramallah, who is also under administrative detention. He suffers from severe pain in his left ear after being assaulted by prison guards, which caused inflammation and painful infections.
The lawyer also visited the following detainees, who were found to be in good health:
. Youssef Zahran (33 years old) from Ramallah, currently serving his fourth term under administrative detention.
. Mostafa Karameh (23 years old) from Kafr Aqab / Jerusalem, who suffers from different health problems pain and is held under administrative detention.
. Walaa Amr (30 years old) from Hebron, detained since December 22, 2023, under administrative detention, and recently received a substantive ruling in his case.

The number of elderly Palestinian detainees(aged 60 and above) in Israeli occupation prisons has reached 117, including 13 serving life sentences.

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Update on the Number of Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Occupation Prisons as of the Beginning of September 2025

The Total Number of Prisoners in Israeli Occupation Prisons Has Increased to More Than 11,000, the Most of Them Administrative Detainees Held Without Trial or Charge

* The total number of prisoners and detainees in Israeli occupation prisons as of the beginning of September 2025 exceeded 11,100. This number does not include detainees held in Israeli army camps. This is the highest number since the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, based on documentary data available to institutions.
* Female prisoners: Their number to date stands at 49, including two from Gaza.
* Children: Their number to date stands at more than 400.
* Administrative detainees: Their number reached 3,577 detainees, which is the highest percentage compared to the number of prisoners arrested, convicted, and classified as "unlawful combatants."
* Detainees classified as "unlawful combatants": Their number reached 2,662. This number does not include all detainees from Gaza held in camps affiliated with the occupation army and classified as "unlawful combatants." It is worth noting that this classification also includes Arab detainees from Lebanon and Syria.

Palestinian Prisoner’s Society

Prisons as a Frontline of Genocide: Two Years of War Crimes Against Palestinian Political Detainees

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

October 7, 2025

Ramallah, occupied West Bank - Two years into the Israeli occupation’s genocide in Gaza and its widespread assault across historic Palestine, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association present a report on the condition of Palestinian political prisoners. This includes critical data and an overview of the ongoing violence inside Israeli occupation prisons—an extension of the broader campaign of erasure and genocide of Palestinians.

Since the start of the genocide, detainees have been subjected to deliberate killings inside prison walls. Some have been beaten to death, while others have died due to systemic denial of medical care, starvation, and other inhumane practices. These abuses, though not new, have intensified dramatically, resulting in the highest recorded number of killings of Palestinian prisoners in recent history.

At least 77 Palestinian political prisoners have been confirmed killed since the genocide began, while dozens of detainees abducted from Gaza remain forcibly disappeared, with their bodies withheld by the occupation. These crimes reflect a broader pattern of settler-colonial violence and systematic attempts to destroy Palestinian prisoners.

Full report in English below

Prisons as a Frontline of Genocide: Two Years of War Crimes Against Palestinian Political Detainees

Fact Sheet by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.

October 7, 2025

Ramallah, occupied Palestine - Two years since the start of the Israeli occupation’s escalating genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip, and the comprehensive aggression across historic Palestine, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and other prisoner institutions present a fact sheet on the issue and reality of political prisoners. This includes key data and figures as well as an overview of the horrific conditions in the Israeli occupation’s prisons which constitute one aspect of the genocide, whereby Palestinian political detainees are being subject to unprecedented settler-colonial violence and erasure.

Over the past two years, detainees have been exposed to deliberate murder behind bars at the hands of the Israeli occupation’s prison services. This includes direct killing such as beating detainees to death, and other indirect killings through inhumane policies including denial of the right to medical care and starvation. These actions, which existed before but intensified greatly since the genocide in Gaza, have led to a record number of Palestinian political prisoners killed. There have been 77 identified murdered Palestinian political prisoners since the genocide began, while dozens of other detainees abducted from Gaza were martyred and their bodies remain withheld by occupation authorities and subject to enforced disappearances.

This figure stands as irrefutable evidence of one of the most brutal periods in the history of the Palestinian prisoner movement, which has long resisted a prison system designed to physically and psychologically destroy detainees.

Relying on hundreds of documented testimonies, material evidence, and public threats by Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and the far-right Israeli government, the PPS and other institutions affirm that the crimes against prisoners constitute large-scale war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Israeli judicial system, including its Supreme Court, has provided legal cover for this brutality.

These crimes include torture, killing, looting, starvation, the intentional spread of disease, denial of medical care, sexual assaults including rape, and collective isolation — all aimed at the systematic killing of Palestinian prisoners. The scale of violence over the past two years has exceeded all legal definitions, violating international laws and conventions, amid unprecedented global inaction — especially due to the protection granted to these crimes by international powers, chiefly the United States.

Nevertheless, as human rights institutions, and despite the bleakness of the reality, we cannot ignore the role of principled human rights advocates, nor the importance of activating international decisions that support our people’s right to freedom and self-determination.

While the occupying state continues to commit its ongoing crime of genocide over the past two years, we are now witnessing the continued detention of dozens of activists from the Sumud Flotilla who, in their testimonies, revealed that they were subjected to abuse, ill-treatment, and detention under harsh conditions. This has been accompanied by public threats made by the Ben Gvir against the activists, whom he described as “terrorists.” In this context, the institutions express their salute to all the activists who attempted to break the siege imposed on our people in Gaza.

Key Policies and Violations Documented by Prisoner Rights Institutions

We have documented an unprecedented escalation in the scale and scope of systematic crimes and violations widely practiced against Palestinian political prisoners since the beginning of the genocide. Among the most prominent of these crimes are:

• Torture in all its physical and psychological forms.
• Systematic starvation and denial of sufficient and balanced food.
• Medical crimes, including denial of treatment and deliberate imposition of conditions that lead to the spread of diseases and epidemics.
• Collective isolation and policies of deprivation affecting all aspects of prison life.
• Systematic repression and attacks carried out by special units of the Israeli Prison Services, notably the Keter, Metzada, and Nahshon units.
• Violent physical assault, including the use of gas, stun grenades, and electroshock weapons.
• Policies of humiliation, including strip searches and sexual assault, including rape.
• Using illness as a tool of torture, as seen in the outbreak of scabies skin disease.
• Psychological terror, solitary confinement, and threats of murder.
• Enforced disappearance has also become a policy, particularly targeting detainees from Gaza.

Additionally, there has been a massive surge in the use of the policies of “administrative detention” and “unlawful combatants” both of which allow detention without trial or charge for indefinite periods without due process.

Martyred Prisoners: The Most Violent Era in the History of the Prisoner Movement

The number of martyred Palestinian political prisoners whose identities have been confirmed has reached 77 people, all of whom were killed through either torture, starvation, or denial of medical treatment, or a combination of them all. These are only those whose identities have been revealed; the bodies of dozens of detainees from Gaza who have been killed remain forcibly disappeared.

In addition, occupation authorities continue to withhold the bodies of 85 martyred prisoners who were killed in detention, 74 of whom were martyred since the start of the genocide.

The total number of martyrs of the Palestinian prisoner movement since the occupation of 1967 is estimated at 314 people, according to documentation compiled over the decades.

We emphasize here that the occupation’s claims of opening “investigations” into the circumstances of some prisoner deaths and killings — following formal requests from certain human rights institutions — are nothing more than a policy of deception and deliberate stalling.

The Case of Palestinians Detained from Gaza

The testimonies and accounts of detainees from Gaza have marked a pivotal shift in understanding the level of brutality practiced by the occupation system. These testimonies have revealed an unprecedented pattern of systematic torture, beginning from the moment of arrest, through the stages of interrogation, and continuing into prolonged periods of detention.

The methods of repression and abuse have varied, ranging from physical and psychological torture, to beatings, starvation, and deliberate medical crimes — in addition to sexual assault. Taken together, these acts constitute a fully developed policy of extermination and genocide inside prisons and military camps.

These crimes have led to the killing of dozens of detainees, alongside field executions carried out by occupation forces during arrest. According to official data, human rights organizations have so far identified 46 martyred Palestinians among those abducted from Gaza, out of a total of 77 prisoners killed since the start of the genocide. Meanwhile, the occupation continues to conceal the fate of dozens of other martyred Gaza detainees.

It is also worth noting that the occupation authorities have established several camps and special sections inside prisons specifically for Gaza’s detainees. Most notable among them is the Sde Teiman camp, which has become a central site of torture and killings, and the Rakevet section, located underground in Ramla Prison, which stands as a stark example of enforced disappearance and systematic torture.

The vast majority of Gaza’s detainees officially acknowledged by the prison administration have been classified as “unlawful combatants” — one of the most prominent legal frameworks that has institutionalized torture and other grave violations against Gaza detainees, and allows their detention without trial or charge indefinitely.

Around 20,000 Arrest Cases in the West Bank, Including Jerusalem, Since the Start of the War of Extermination

(Note: This figure does not include arrests in Gaza, estimated in the thousands, nor those in the 1948-occupied territories.)

Since the genocide, the number of cases of arrest in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, has reached approximately 20,000, including around 1,600 arrests among children and about 595 among women. This figure includes those who were arrested and remain in detention, as well as those who were later released. It marks a historic and unprecedented number of arrests over just two years. It is important to note that this number does not include cases of arrest among Gaza’s residents, estimated in the thousands, nor arrests that occurred in the 1948-occupied territories.

These mass arrests in the West Bank have been accompanied by unprecedented crimes and violations, including brutal beatings, acts of terror against detainees and their families, widespread vandalism and destruction of homes, confiscation of vehicles, money, and gold, and the extensive destruction of infrastructure — particularly in Tulkarem, Jenin and their refugee camps. Violations also included the demolition of prisoners’ family homes, use of family members as hostages, use of detainees as human shields, and field executions. Moreover, arrests have been used as a cover for illegal settlement expansion in the West Bank.

The total number of arrests since the beginning of the genocide includes: Those detained from their homes, at military checkpoints, those who surrendered under pressure, those taken as hostages, and individuals held for long hours under field interrogation.

Widespread field interrogations have targeted thousands since the beginning of the genocide, during which occupation soldiers have committed crimes comparable to those in formal detention centers.

Categories of Arrests

• Journalists: A total of 202 journalists have been arrested since the start of the genocide. The majority were either placed under “administrative detention” – detention without trial or charge -  or faced charges related to what the occupation calls “incitement” — essentially detaining individuals for freedom of expression. Two journalists from Gaza, Nidal Al-Wahidi and Haitham Abdel Wahid, remain under enforced disappearance.
• Doctors and Medical Staff: According to the Ministry of Health, about 360 medical professionals have been arrested, including three who died in detention due to torture:
  Iyad Al-Rantisi, Adnan Al-Barsh, and Ziad Al-Dalu.

📌 Data and Statistics on the Number of Prisoners – October 2025

The number of prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons has more than doubled, with the majority of detainees held under administrative detention, meaning without charge. The issue of administrative detention has become one of the most significant developments in the prisoner file.

This data is based on reports from prisoner advocacy institutions and figures released by the Israeli Prison Service up to October 2025.

• Total number of Palestinian political prisoners: Over 11,100 people held in the Israeli occupation’s prisons, majority held under administrative detention without trial or charge, or are awaiting trial. (This number does not include detainees held in military camps run by the Israeli army.) It is the highest recorded total since the start of the Second Intifada in 2000, according to documentation by relevant institutions.
• Sentenced prisoners: Over 1,460 individuals currently serving sentences.
• Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment or facing life sentence charges: Around 350, including 303 already sentenced, and 40 facing indictments for life sentences.
• Abdullah Al-Barghouti holds the highest sentence: 67 life terms.
• Followed by Ibrahim Hamed: 54 life terms.
• Prisoners detained since before the Oslo Accords: 17 prisoners, including four who have been held since 1986: Ibrahim Abu Mokh, Ibrahim Bayadseh, Ahmed Abu Jaber, and Samir Abu Nima.
• Prisoners sentenced between 10 and 20 years: 131 people
• Prisoners sentenced between 21 and 30 years: 166 people
• Female prisoners: 53 women are currently held behind bars, including three from Gaza, and two minor girls.
• Child prisoners: Over 400 children are currently detained, mostly in Ofer and Megiddo prisons.
• Pre-trial detainees: Around 3,380 individuals are awaiting trial (as of October 2025).
• “Administrative detainees”: 3,544 detainees, making it the largest category of prisoners compared to sentenced or pre-trial detainees, or “unlawful combatants”.
• “Unlawful combatants”: 2,673 detainees classified under this designation, though the number does not include all Gaza detainees held in military camps. This classification also applies to Arab detainees from Lebanon and Syria.

Prisoners’ Numbers Before the Genocide

📌 The total number of prisoners before the genocide exceeded 5,250 people, including around 40 female prisoners and 180 children. The number of “administrative detainees” stood at approximately 1,320 people.

Since the beginning of the genocide, occupation authorities have denied prisoners' families the right to visit, and have also banned the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting prisoners in detention.

It is also important to note that Palestinian human rights institutions are facing severe challenges and a systematic campaign of elimination, which has escalated to an unprecedented level — particularly after the United States designated the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association as a “terrorist” organization, and imposed sanctions on three other organizations: Al-Haq, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), and Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights.

All the data used by these institutions is based on: Legal teams who visit and follow up on prisoners, testimonies of released prisoners, and daily monitoring and documentation.

The institutions renew their call on the international system to shed its cloak of inaction and complicity in the face of this extermination war. These crimes have reached a level that words can no longer describe. What is happening is part of a broader campaign of ethnic cleansing and erasure, and the violations committed against prisoners and detainees are a direct extension of the war of extermination and genocide. The ongoing international silence in the face of these crimes is a violation of humanity as a whole, and the consequences of this genocide will extend to all who have used inaction as a pretext to evade their responsibilities.

To access the reports, fact sheets, and statements issued by the three institutions over the past two years of the war, please refer to the following official websites:

• Commission of Detainees’ Affairs:
  https://cda.gov.ps/index.php/ar/
• Palestinian Prisoner’s Society:
  https://www.ppsmo.ps/
• Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association:
  https://addameer.ps/ar

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Three detainees endure critical health conditions in Gilboa Prison

September 21, 2025

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reported on Sunday, following a lawyer’s visit, several alarming medical cases among detainees held in Gilboa Prison. One of them is Bilal Othman (48) from Beit Rima/Ramallah, who suffers from chronic kidney disease. He has only one kidney due to an injury sustained in 1994. In addition, he struggles with blood clotting and gout. Recently, he had scabies, which has caused him severe itching and the appearance of boils, yet the prison administration continues to deny him proper medical treatment.

Othman was also burned by guards who poured boiling water on his left hand. He further suffers from a fractured finger on the same hand after the prison’s suppression unit raided his cell, beating all those inside. He was struck with iron batons on his back, legs, and arms, which caused the fracture. Despite his condition, he has not received any medical care.
It should be noted that Othman has been imprisoned since 2002 and is serving 15 life sentences in addition to 35 years.

Another case is detainee Mohammad Daraghmeh (34) from Tubas, who also suffers from scabies and severe itching, along with slipped discs in his back and neck. He has lost nearly 15 kilograms of weight.

As for Mohammad Sarhan (25) from Al-Far’a refugee camp, who is held under administrative detention, he too suffers from scabies, accompanied by severe itching and the spread of boils across different areas of his body.

Commission of Detainees Affairs highlights detention conditions of young detainee Nour Khalifa

August 31, 2025

The Commission of Detainees Affairs reported on Sunday the latest details regarding the case of 18-year-old detainee Nour Ahmad Khalifa from Kafr Ni’ma, near Ramallah. The update followed a visit by one of the Commission’s attorneys to Khalifa at Megiddo Prison.

Khalifa was taken into custody on March 4, 2025, after Israeli forces stormed his home late at night, ransacked the property, and assaulted him with batons and firearms. He was handcuffed and transferred to a nearby military site. The next morning, he was moved to Ofer Prison, then subjected to 18 days of interrogation at the Moscobiya center, before being transferred to Megiddo.

Since his arrest, Khalifa has lost more than 15 kilograms, the result of both a health setback and the inadequate quantity and poor quality of food provided to detainees.
He was initially placed under a four-month administrative detention order, which has since been extended. His detention is now scheduled to end on November 4, 2025.

 Martyrdom of 22-year-old Palestinian Political Prisoner Held Without Trial or Charge

Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & Palestinian Prisoners Society

October 7, 2025

Ramallah, occupied Palestine - Israeli occupation authorities have revealed to the General Authority for Civil Affairs the martyrdom of 22-year-old Palestinian detainee Ahmad Hatem Mohammad Khdeirat. From the town of al-Thahiriyeh in Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, Khdeirat was arrested on May 23, 2024. He was held without trial or charge despite his chronic diabetes and was placed in inhumane conditions in the notorious Naqab Prison for most of his detention.

In recent months, Khdeirat’s health severely deteriorated after contracting scabies skin disease, which caused intense itching and repeated seizures. He also suffered from severe hunger episodes, dangerously low blood sugar due to his condition, and extreme difficulty moving or meeting his daily needs. His weight dropped to about 40 kilograms. According to a lawyer who visited him in August, Khdeirat had been unable to get out of bed for two months.

The Commission of Detainees Affairs’ and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society emphasized that Khdeirat’s martyrdom adds to the list of compound crimes committed by the occupation system, as part of its ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people and its policy of killing prisoners and detainees.
With Khdeirat’s killing, the number of martyrs from the prisoners’ movement since the beginning of the genocide has risen to 78 people, and this number includes only those whose identities have been confirmed, amid the ongoing crime of enforced disappearance affecting dozens of detainees. This phase marks the bloodiest period in the history of the prisoners’ movement since 1967, with the number of confirmed martyred prisoners reaching 315 people, according to documented data from prisoners’ institutions.

The two institutions confirmed that the continued and unprecedented rise in the number of prisoner killings proves once again that the occupation’s prison system is persistently implementing a policy of slow killing. Not a month goes by without a new martyr being recorded among the prisoners. With the continuation of daily crimes inside prisons, the number of martyrs is expected to rise, as thousands remain detained in conditions lacking the most basic requirements of life, constantly subjected to systematic crimes including: torture, starvation, physical and sexual assault, medical crimes, and the spread of infectious diseases, primarily scabies, in addition to unprecedented policies of deprivation and abuse.

The Commission and the PPS hold the occupation authorities fully responsible for Khdeirat’s martyrdom and renewed their call to the international human rights system to take serious decisions and actions to hold the leaders of the occupation accountable for war crimes committed against prisoners and the Palestinian people. They also called for the imposition of clear international sanctions to isolate the occupation, restore the role of the human rights system for which it was established, end the horrifying paralysis that has gripped it during the genocide, and put an end to the exceptional impunity still granted to the occupation by international powers — as if it were a state above the law, beyond accountability and justice.

Monthly Briefing on Palestinian Political Prisoners - August 2025

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

September 14, 2025

Ramallah, occupied Palestine - Israeli occupation authorities carried out 540 arrests of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, during August 2025. Among them were 49 children and 19 women. The total number of recorded arrests in the occupied West Bank since the start of the genocide in occupied Gaza has risen to over 19,000, including more than 590 arrests among women and 1,550 arrests among children. These figures do not reflect the current number of Palestinian political prisoners – they include both those who remain in detention and those who were later released. They also do not include the total arrests among Palestinians in occupied Gaza, which are estimated to be in the thousands.

The Commission of Detainees Affairs’, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association publish this monthly briefing based on lawyers’ visits to detainees among other documentation. Israeli occupation forces have consistently and relentlessly carried out mass arrests across the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza since the genocide. This includes abducting residents of Gaza as they waited for humanitarian aid—aid that the occupation has turned into a trap for murder, arrests, and abuse.

Israeli occupation forces carry our night-time raids and the violent storming of homes, accompanied by the deliberate destruction of family internal and external property in a manner that resembles settler attacks. Detainees and their families are often subjected to physical assaults, threats of killing, and various forms of humiliation. In many cases, families are held hostage while soldiers loot money, jewelry, and electronic devices. Field interrogations are frequently conducted either inside homes or in makeshift military barracks. Most gravely, there has been a sharp and unprecedented rise in field executions since the start of the genocide.

The sharp rise in organized settler attacks in the occupied West Bank has led to an increase in mass arrests of residents, especially in villages and areas targeted by illegal settlement expansion, where dozens of civilians were arrested and interrogated in the context of escalating confrontations with illegal settlers.

The use of “administrative detention” – or detaining residents without trial or charge indefinitely – has continued to escalate, serving as a tool used by the occupation to suppress any form of active political, social, or cultural engagement. This policy targets a wide range of individuals, including students, journalists, human rights defenders, and former prisoners, aiming to dismantle the foundations of civil society. Today, administrative detainees make up over 32 percent of the total prisoner population, including women and children. Since the beginning of the genocide, approximately 90 percent of appeals and petitions filed against administrative detention orders have been rejected by the occupation’s courts, revealing their entrenched role as a central mechanism in legitimizing this policy through sham trials wholly controlled by the intelligence services.

The Reality for Prisoners

The Israeli prisons administration is committing widespread violations and crimes against Palestinian detainees. Testimonies gathered by legal teams during their visits reveal a worsening health catastrophe inside the prisons, with diseases spreading rapidly and severe weight loss reported as a result of deliberate starvation. Scabies skin disease is being used for further abuse, recently spreading widely in Ofer Prison amid growing concerns that it may return on a larger scale to Naqab Prison. Other forms of diseases are also developing. 

The occupation authorities continue their systematic repression operations against prisoners using various types of weapons, including electric shocks and rubber bullets. These assaults include women and children. Prisoners’ institutions have documented four large-scale crackdowns on female prisoners in August, during which they were subjected to degrading treatment, handcuffed, forced to kneel, strip searched, and sprayed with gas. In addition, assaults targeted sick prisoners, including a crackdown on ill detainees in the "Ramleh prison clinic," where they were sprayed with gas. It is worth noting that such crackdowns were among the causes that led to the killing of detainees after the genocide.

Martyred Detainees in August 2025

Due to the ongoing crimes in occupation prisons, 20-year-old Ahmad Saeed Tazaz’a from Jenin was killed in August 2025; his death was announced on August 3, 2025. He was held without trial or charge under “administrative detention”. It was also announced that 20-year-old Musab Abdulmonim Al-‘Aida from Hebron was martyred after being shot in the city of Hebron prior to his arrest, having sustained critical injuries.

Targeting of Imprisoned Leaders

During the month of August 2025, we witnessed a direct threat made against political leader Marwan Barghouthi by the fascist minister of national security Itamar Ben-Gvir, who stormed his cell in Rimon Prison. Prisoners’ institutions considered this act a direct threat to assassinate leader Barghouthi and the leadership of the Palestinian prisoners' movement in the occupation prisons, who are being subjected to assassination attempts through repeated assaults and continued solitary confinement since the start of the genocide. It is worth noting that Itamar Ben-Gvir has consistently and systematically incited the killing of prisoners and the execution of further systematic crimes against them. He has repeatedly appeared in footage from inside the prisons, showcasing his crimes and the assaults carried out by repression forces against the prisoners, while broadcasting more incitement against them and openly calling for their execution.

Palestinians Arrested From Gaza

The issue of Palestinian detainees arrested from Gaza continues to dominate the scene due to the level of crimes and atrocities they are being subjected to in Israeli occupation’s prisons and military camps. Prisoners’ institutions have recently documented additional testimonies from detainees abducted from Gaza held in these facilities.

One of the most notable recent visits was to the underground"Rakevet" section of Ramleh Prison, where detainees emerged weeping uncontrollably from the horrors they endure—continuous torture, abuse, starvation, and terror around the clock. The testimonies from the "Rakevet" section add to the hundreds already collected from Gaza detainees about the atrocities they have faced since the start of the genocide, including sexual assaults, some of which involved rape to death.

Bodies of Martyred Prisoners Still Held

On the occasion of the National Day for the Retrieval of Martyrs’ Bodies, marked annually on August 27, prisoners’ institutions documented the continued detention of 85 bodies of identified martyred Palestinian prisoners, including 74 held since the start of the genocide. The policy of withholding bodies remains one of the most prominent longstanding practices used by the occupation.

Enforced Disappearance

On the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance marked on August 30 each year, prisoners’ institutions renewed their affirmation that the occupation continues to commit the crime of enforced disappearance, which has also emerged as one of the most prominent issues resulting from the genocide.

This crime has targeted detainees and martyrs from Gaza and has been used as a cover to commit further violations, including acts of torture against detainees. Contributing to the entrenchment of this crime is the use of the "Unlawful Combatant Law," which was amended after the war and directly enabled the imposition of enforced disappearance on Gaza detainees.

Total Number of Palestinian Political Prisoners as of Early September 2025

As of the beginning of September 2025, the total number of Palestinian political detainees in Israeli occupation’s prisons exceeded 11,100, the majority of whom are held without trial or charge.

This figure does not include those held in military camps operated by the Israeli army. It represents the highest number since the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000, according to documentation available to institutions.

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  Female prisoners: Currently number 53, including two from Gaza.
  
  • Children: Over 400 to date.
  
  • “Administrative detainees” (held without trial or charge): 3,577 people, the highest percentage compared to sentenced prisoners and those held on charges, as well as those classified as “unlawful combatants.”
  
  • "Unlawful combatants" (held without trial or charge): 2,662 people. This figure does not include all Gaza detainees held in military camps and classified under this category. It is also noted that this classification includes Arab detainees from Lebanon and Syria.

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 Attached is a briefing paper in English about the occupation’s crime of withholding Palestinians’ bodies

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