International Women’s Day: 72 Palestinian Female Political Detainees in Israeli Occupation Prisons Face Abuse, Severe Violations

 

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

March 8, 2026

“The raids happen like this: they storm the rooms one by one, force us to lie face down, walk over us, tie our hands behind our backs, then drag us one by one to the yard while pulling our shoulders backward as they lift us from the ground, causing severe pain. Some prisoners su>ered fractures. In one raid I was tied and lying on the ground; they told me to stand but I couldn’t, so they violently pulled me up by my shoulder from behind. The pain lasted for a long time […]

“One prisoner had her shoulder dislocated while being dragged violently while lying on the ground. Another was dragged in a brutal way that exposed her back and hair in front of the guards, and her knee was displaced; she suffered from pain for months and they refused to take her to the clinic. Another prisoner was beaten on her back and stomach.” – (D.B.), a female Palestinian political prisoner currently held by the Israeli occupation.

Ramallah, occupied Palestine – International Women’s Day, observed annually on March 8, is an occasion to celebrate the achievements of women and their struggles for justice and equality. In occupied Palestine however, this occasion arrives burdened with a different reality; Palestinian women live under a severely oppressive system of Israeli occupation, where the symbolism of this day is intertwined with loss, oppression, deprivation, and suffering.

In this new report, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association—present key data related to the reality of incarcerated Palestinian women and the accompanying crimes and violations. The report includes several testimonies from Palestinian female prisoners gathered through lawyers of our organizations, and presents the worsening detention conditions for detained women following the start of the genocide in occupied Gaza.

Among the main ways the Israeli occupation targets Palestinian society is through its women. For decades, Palestinian women of all ages have been subjected to arrest, ill- treatment, torture, and the denial of their most basic rights. What Palestinian women experience today—including women prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons—represents a continuation of long-standing policies of suppression and erasure. However, since the occupation’s genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip, matters have become unprecedentedly difficult for all Palestinians, including women, one of the most vulnerable segments of society.

The scale and severity of violations and crimes against Palestinian women have surpassed all past violence. This has coincided with a significant escalation in mass arrests across occupied Palestine, alongside a noticeable rise in the number of women imprisoned, and worsening conditions of their detention. These conditions fall within a system of systematic torture that begins from the moment of arrest and continues through interrogation and imprisonment. The occupation’s prisons have turned into arenas for torture and the systematic destruction of male and female prisoners, and one of the fields in which the crime of genocide is being carried out.

More than 700 Palestinian women have been arrested since the start of the genocide. Women and girls arrested include university students, activists, housewives, and women with no direct political involvement. These arrests cannot be viewed in isolation from a wider policy that targets the Palestinian family and social structure, within an approach based on collective punishment and abuse.

The arrests of women from occupied Gaza following the genocide have also become one of the most prominent issues, due to the serious violations they faced and the humiliation of their human dignity, in addition to the crime of enforced disappearance that affected dozens of them at the beginning of the genocide. Prisoner institutions later managed to determine the fate of many of these women and secure their release, while to this day there is no available data indicating that women from occupied Gaza remain in detention.

The majority of female prisoners who were arrested were subjected to physical and psychological abuse accompanying the moment of arrest, whether they were arrested from their homes after raids or while passing through military checkpoints.

Countless testimonies over the past two years show that sexual violence has been among the prominent violations experienced by Palestinian women during detention, including harassment, strip searches, and threats of rape. The United Nations has also stated in an official announcement that there are credible reports indicating that detainees from Gaza were subjected to sexual violence, including rape. Prisoner groups have documented testimonies from women who were released and others still in prison who reported humiliating practices, foremost among them the widespread use of strip searches.

Latest Statistics on Palestinian Female Political Prisoners

As of March 2026, Israeli occupation authorities are currently imprisoning 72 Palestinian women, most of them held in Damon Prison in the country’s north. Among them are three minors and 32 mothers, who collectively have 130 children.

Additionally, 17 women are held under administrative detention without trial or charge, while five female prisoners are serving varying sentences - the longest being 16 years.

There are also 50 women awaiting trial, including 16 who are detained on charges related to what the occupation refers to as “incitement,” with estimates that the actual number may be higher.

There is one female prisoner previously wounded by Israeli occupation forces, and 18 sick female prisoners, including three women suffering from cancer, in addition to 12 female university students and three female school students.

Geographically, the majority were arrested from the occupied West Bank and occupied Jerusalem (69 female prisoners), alongside three female prisoners from the 1948-occupied territories.

Anonymized Testimonies of Palestinian Female Political Prisoners

1.  Prisoner (D.B.):

“The suppression forces would raid the rooms accompanied by the ‘Yamaz’ unit and dogs. In one raid, a dog was brought into my room with a soldier holding it. It was only about a meter away from me, which was terrifying—especially for the younger prisoners who began trembling.

“The raids happen like this: they storm the rooms one by one, force us to lie face down, walk over us, tie our hands behind our backs, then drag us one by one to the yard while pulling our shoulders backward as they lift us from the ground, causing severe pain. Some prisoners su>ered fractures. In one raid I was tied and lying on the ground; they told me to stand but I couldn’t, so they violently pulled me up by my shoulder from behind. The pain lasted for a long time.”

She continued:

“One prisoner had her shoulder dislocated while being dragged violently while lying on the ground. Another was dragged in a brutal way that exposed her back and hair in front of the guards, and her knee was displaced; she suffered from pain for months and they refused to take her to the clinic. Another prisoner was beaten on her back and stomach.”

 

“After dragging the prisoners, some of us were taken for strip searches in the bathroom, while others were taken directly to the yard. We were forced to remain kneeling or lying on our stomachs for between half an hour and an hour until the searches were finished.

Sometimes they would walk over us. Any prisoner who tried to change her position was beaten. I personally was beaten with kicks and hands. Once the prison director beat me when I tried to relieve the pressure on my body and said: ‘You are not in your home.’ In one raid we remained on our stomachs for nearly an hour while guards and special units walked over us and filmed videos. The pretext was ‘searching the rooms.’”

2.  Prisoner (R.R.):

“They took me from the outdoor yard to a small room. A female soldier carried out a strip search. She lifted my arms and grabbed and examined my chest. She ordered me to stand and sit twice while I was naked. Then she gave me underwear and a prison pajama uniform to wear and handed me a head covering, while throwing my clothes in the trash. After that they handcuffed my hands behind my back and shackled my legs. They did not put a blindfold on me. Then a very tall soldier came, grabbed my left arm from behind, and walked me while repeatedly hitting my left shoulder with his elbow along the way. My arm became swollen and the blows were strong. I don’t know how many times he hit me, but the next day my arm was swollen. When they saw it during interrogation they were alarmed and said they would take me to the clinic, but they never did.”

She also described the conditions of her interrogation cell:

“The soldier placed me in a very small cell, about one meter by one meter. I couldn’t fully stretch my legs inside it. When I slept, my head was near the toilet seat. The walls were rough and gray. The cell had only a toilet seat, a sink, and a floor—no mattress, blanket, or pillow. There was toilet paper and drinking water only from the sink. They took my hijab and left me only with the head cover beneath it. The cell was full of bugs, and I developed a fungal infection inside it. I stayed there until the next morning. Around eight in the morning, a guard took me to the interrogation room.”

She added regarding the interrogation period:

“They entered my cell frequently. Two female soldiers would come in with other guards standing outside, and suddenly they would conduct a strip search. They would order me to remove all my clothes. The searches were humiliating.”

 

3.  Prisoner (M.M.):

Here we refer to the case of the prisoner (M.M.), who was abducted as a hostage to pressure her father, who is detained in Israeli occupation prisons. During her arrest and interrogation, she was subjected to abuse, assaults, and humiliation.

“When I was arrested, the soldiers started asking me in the military jeep, ‘Where do you want to go? Which prison?’ I told them, ‘Asqalan.’ They started laughing at me and said: ‘So you want to go where your father is.’”

“From the first day I entered the Asqalan (Ashkelon) interrogation center, they began interrogating me. I was interrogated continuously for 18 days, every day in several sessions, each session lasting three or four hours. They would take me into interrogation about three times a day. Each time there was one interrogator and one female soldier. The interrogation consisted of continuous questioning. They would leave to rest for two or three hours. I was unable to sleep throughout the interrogation, which lasted 27 days.”

She added:

“After 27 days they transferred me to Damon Prison. I was transferred by the Nahshon unit, and they pushed me a lot during the transfer. They moved me in prison transport vehicles (‘bosta’). I was taken through more than one prison whose names I don’t know before arriving at Damon, but I arrived there on the same day.”

She continued in her testimony:

“On the 18th day of interrogation, when I was about to finish interrogation, an interrogator came and said: ‘We’ll let you see your father.’ Then they took me to an interrogation room where my father was sitting on an interrogation chair like school chairs, with his hands tied behind him. When I entered, it seemed he knew I was coming and was prepared for it; he was looking toward the door. When I entered, they removed the cover from my eyes, and my hands were tied in front of me. My father started crying a lot when he saw me. I ran toward him and hugged him while I was still tied up. He kept kissing me and saying reassuring words to comfort me. Then they seated me on a regular chair while my hands were still tied in front. He looked extremely exhausted. There were about twelve interrogators in the room, including only one female interrogator.”

 

This testimony is one of dozens from women who were arrested as hostages to pressure members of their families.

4.   Prisoner (H.B.):

“I was transferred to Hasharon Prison. When I arrived, a female soldier received me, and as I climbed a long staircase she kept insulting and pushing me. She took me to a small, filthy solitary cell that had nothing but a mattress on the floor without a blanket or pillow and a very small bathroom. I stayed there alone for four days without anyone speaking to me.

They brought me cold, bad food, and during those four days I didn’t eat and threw the food away. The weather was extremely cold, and when I asked for a blanket they refused and told me it was forbidden. The mattress cover was made of cold plastic.”

 

This testimony is one of dozens describing similar experiences of women detained in Hasharon Prison.

 

 

5.   Prisoner (L.Y.):

 

“When I arrived at Damon, they stripped me of all my clothes and threw them in the trash, including my jilbab and jacket. They gave me a prison uniform and only two pieces of underwear. I was subjected to a strip search and then taken down to the prison section wearing the prison uniform (shirt and trousers). It was psychologically very painful for me.”

 

Prominent Policies of Abuse, Humiliation and Violence Against Palestinian Women During Arrest and Detention

Palestinian women face systematic abuse, humiliation, and violence throughout the process of arrest and detention. Arrests often begin with violent night or dawn raids on homes, during which Israeli occupation forces break or blow up doors, spread throughout the house, destroy and cause deliberate vandalism of belongings and furniture, and shout threats while holding residents at gunpoint. Women are frequently taken from their homes in front of their families. In other cases, arrests occur at military checkpoints, where women may be detained for hours under the sun or in the cold before being subjected to detailed and humiliating searches.

Testimonies indicate that women were pushed, beaten, and violently removed from vehicles. Detainees have also reported being blindfolded and having their hands tied behind their backs for extended periods, while being insulted and threatened. Abuse can continue during transportation in military vehicles, where women are forced to remain in painful positions and denied access to toilets for long periods.

A long-standing practice has been the arrest of women as hostages to pressure male relatives, a policy that has become particularly visible in the period since the start of the Gaza genocide. In these cases, women are detained not because they are the primary targets but to force a family member to surrender, or as a form of revenge. Dozens of women—including wives of prisoners, wives of those killed, mothers, and even elderly women—have been arrested for this purpose. These arrests are often accompanied by psychological pressure and threats, including threats to kill or harm the targeted relative. Raids frequently involve the destruction of homes, theft of large amounts of money and jewelry, and the terrorizing of children, reflecting a broader pattern of collective punishment against entire families. Many of the women arrested come from families that have already endured years of repeated raids, arrests, imprisonment, and killings.

 

Another major phenomenon has been the sharp rise in arrests of women on charges of “incitement,” under Israeli occupation military laws, particularly related to social media activity. Since the genocide, Israeli occupation authorities have expanded the

interpretation of “incitement” to include posts, reposts, personal expressions, or even interactions with online content. As a result, the digital sphere has effectively become a space for surveillance and prosecution, where any online activity can be grounds for arrest regardless of context. Many women detained since the Gaza genocide—including journalists, activists, university students, human rights defenders, and relatives of prisoners or those killed—have faced such charges. This expansion has significantly restricted freedom of expression and placed Palestinian women under constant monitoring.

Inside Israeli occupation prisons, particularly Damon Prison, women detainees report an unprecedented level of repression and abuse during the ongoing war. Their ordeal typically begins with interrogation and temporary detention in Hasharon Prison before being transferred to Damon, the main facility holding Palestinian female political prisoners.

Testimonies describe Damon Prison as a site where torture, starvation, humiliation, and degrading treatment are widespread. Prisoners have reported confiscation of personal belongings, severe overcrowding due to mass arrest campaigns, and practices such as arbitrary and excessive strip searches, harassment, and other forms of sexual abuse.

During certain periods since the genocide began, the number of female prisoners has exceeded 100 women and girls, further worsening already harsh conditions.

Female prisoners have also faced systematic denial of adequate amounts of food, like all Palestinian political prisoners. Meals provided by the prison administration are minimal, often cold and of poor quality, and insufficient to meet basic daily needs, directly affecting prisoners’ health and immunity. Basic necessities have also been used as tools of humiliation, including limiting access to sanitary pads and hygiene supplies. Prisoners have been deprived of enough clothing and adequate blankets, and many have been denied medical care. Current data indicates that three women prisoners suffering from cancer remain detained, including one charged with “incitement,” one held under administrative detention without trial or charge, and another awaiting trial.

Isolation has intensified since the start of the genocide. Women prisoners, like all detainees, have been denied family visits for two and a half years, as well as visits from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), leaving lawyers’ visits as the only remaining channel of communication with the outside world, with even those severely restricted. This isolation has significantly increased the psychological pressure on female detainees, particularly as many are mothers and have been denied any contact with their children.

Hasharon Prison, which serves as a temporary detention station before transfer to Damon, has also been described as a place of humiliation and intimidation. Testimonies collected show prisoners are held in filthy cells unfit for human habitation, provided with extremely small amounts of inedible food, and forced to sleep on thin, dirty mattresses. Degrading strip searches are frequently conducted, and several women reported being beaten after refusing to comply with these procedures.

In addition to daily hardship, women prisoners have been subjected to frequent physical assault and raids by occupation prison forces. These raids, sometimes carried out with police dogs often involve beatings, strip searches, stun grenades, and tear gas. Female prisoners’ remaining personal belongings are confiscated during these operations. Some women have been placed in solitary confinement as punishment after such raids, while others have been prevented from leaving their cells for the prison yard. In many cases, female prisoners were forced to sit in humiliating positions for long periods while being threatened and filmed.

Together, these practices illustrate severe policies of systematic abuse, maltreatment rising to the level of torture at times, and collective punishment directed at Palestinian women throughout the stages of arrest, interrogation, detention, and imprisonment.

In light of the above, there is an urgent need for serious international action that translates legal obligations into practical measures. This includes working to implement the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice, which considered the occupation illegal, along with the obligations that arise from it to end it and not recognize its consequences.

It also requires working toward the unconditional release of all Palestinian political prisoners – including women - in a context where prisons have effectively become systems of torture and collective destruction, turning them into one of the arenas of the ongoing crime of genocide.

 

 

 

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🔴 New Measures Against Administrative Detainees Entrench Ongoing Violations and Undermine International Law

🔴 Palestinian Prisoner’s Society & Commission of Detainees’ Affairs

February 18, 2026

Ramallah, occupied Palestine– The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) stated that the Israeli occupation system’s move to introduce legal amendments that would further tighten detention conditions for administrative detainees—who are held without trial or charge and constitute the largest category among prisoners.

The two institutions affirmed that these amendments constitute a new attempt, under legal cover, to evade the fundamental rights guaranteed by international law to administrative detainees. International law has established clear and strict limitations on the use of administrative detention, preventing it from becoming a tool of collective punishment or open-ended imprisonment without trial.

The Commission and the PPS explained that the issue of administrative detainees has become one of the most significant transformations affecting the composition of the prisoners’ movement in occupation prisons, amid an unprecedented escalation in arbitrary arrest campaigns under what the occupation calls a “secret file.” These campaigns have targeted thousands of citizens since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza. Specialized institutions have recorded the highest historical rate of administrative detainees, currently numbering approximately 3,360 people, including women and children—about 36% of the total number of prisoners in occupation prisons.

The joint statement noted that the crimes and violations endured by administrative detainees, like other prisoners, have led to the killing of 12 administrative detainees since the beginning of the genocide. They are among 88 prisoners who have been martyred during the same period, whose identities have been officially announced. This figure reflects the bloodiest phase in the history of the Palestinian prisoners’ national movement.

The two institutions stressed that since occupying Palestine, the occupation authorities have systematically used arbitrary administrative detention without charges, indictments, or fair trial, based on what is known as the “secret file,” which neither the detainee nor their lawyer is allowed to access. Under Israeli military orders, an administrative detention order can be renewed an unlimited number of times. The order is typically issued for a maximum period of six months but is often repeatedly extended, effectively turning detention into open-ended imprisonment.

Administrative detention targets various segments of Palestinian society across different geographic areas, including university students, journalists, women, former members of the Legislative Council, human rights activists, workers, lawyers, mothers, and former prisoners. Notably, administrative detention has also escalated in the 1948 occupied-territories and in occupied Jerusalem, where detention orders are issued by decision of the occupation’s Minister of Security.

The statement further emphasized that the occupation’s judicial system, including military courts, has long served—and continues to serve—as a central tool in entrenching a system of repression, surveillance, and control, suppressing the Palestinian people and attempting to uproot active members of society while undermining any role that could contribute to self-determination. Following the genocide, these courts have continued functioning as the judicial arm that reinforces the crime of administrative detention and provides legal cover for intelligence agencies to carry out further arrest campaigns.

The two institutions added that over the years, human rights organizations have called for a comprehensive national decision to gradually boycott occupation courts, particularly regarding the handling of administrative detainees’ cases, given the serious national and strategic implications for the future of the prisoners’ cause. They reaffirmed that they still look with hope toward national-level support for this direction in order to take this pivotal step.

In conclusion, the institutions noted that the United Nations had previously called for the dissolution of the occupation’s military courts, with UN experts explaining how the military system has enabled control over the daily details of Palestinians’ lives and entrenched a discriminatory legal structure serving the occupation system.

The two institutions renewed their call to the international human rights system to take effective and urgent measures to hold occupation leaders accountable for war crimes committed against prisoners and the Palestinian people, and to end the state of impunity provided by the United States and international powers to the Israeli occupation system over decades—impunity that has reached its peak with the crime of genocide, despite compelling evidence of its commission against our people in Gaza, in addition to war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against Palestinian political prisoners.

Three detainees in Megiddo Prison facing severe health conditions

February 8, 2026

Three detainees in Megiddo Prison are experiencing grave health conditions as a result of deliberate medical negligence by the Israel Prison Service administration, in addition to starvation, deprivation of water, verbal abuse, daily inspections, and the absence of basic personal care supplies.

In this regard, a lawyer from the Commission visited Megiddo Prison and monitored several critical medical cases, including:

Detainee Abdullah Mahmoud Mazhar, 25, from Balata Refugee Camp – Nablus, arrested on 25/09/2025 and held in administrative detention. He has been suffering for nearly two years from an injury to his left eye caused by shrapnel. Prior to his arrest, he relied on a cleansing eye drop on a daily basis; however, this medication is no longer provided, leaving him with a constant burning sensation in his left eye. He also suffers from an old injury to his right hand, where a metal plate was implanted, causing him intense pain. The prison administration refuses to provide him with painkillers on the grounds that he requires surgical intervention. His condition is further aggravated by the continuous use of iron shackles on his hand and his repeated exposure to repression.

Detainee Mohammad Sobhi Hamadneh, 42, from Nablus, detained since 1/8/2024, contracted in February of last year a virus similar to amoebiasis. As a result, he endured severe diarrhea and became unable to breathe normally or stand. His weight dropped to 37 kilograms, and his hemoglobin level reached 5. He later lost consciousness and was transferred to “Emek” Hospital, where he remained for 29 days. He was discharged at his own responsibility after being physically assaulted by a nurse.

Meanwhile, detainee Yaqoub Mahmoud Qadri, 53, from Bir al-Basha – Jenin, has been suffering from thyroid disorders for three years and is in need of surgery. He also complains of herniated discs in his lower back at the fourth and fifth vertebrae, as well as three herniated discs in his neck for more than twenty years, in addition to severe dental pain that requires referral to a dental clinic.
It is noteworthy that Qadri is one of the heroes of the Freedom Tunnel, and he has been detained since 18/10/2003.

Commission of Detainees uncovers details of abuses against detainee Mohammad Wajeeh Mahamid from Jenin

February 22, 2026

⭕️ On 15/11/2023, he was brutally beaten on his right knee with prison guards’ batons, resulting in a grave injury that left him unable to walk without the aid of crutches. The prison administration intermittently confiscates these crutches, further aggravating his condition.

⭕️ On 29/3/2025, he was assaulted once again on the same knee, leading to extreme swelling. It was later confirmed that the knee had been fractured. Despite the severity of his health condition, the prison administration limited its response to providing pain relief medication only, without providing proper medical intervention or transferring him to an outside hospital, reflecting the continued implementation of a systematic policy of medical neglect against ill detainees.

⭕️ These abuses lay bare the harsh conditions endured by detainees inside detention facilities, where they are denied their most fundamental human rights to adequate medical care and treatment, amid deliberate neglect by prison authorities to their escalating suffering.

 Palestinian Medic Abducted From Gaza During Kamal Adwan Hospital Siege, Killed in Israeli Occupation Prison

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

February 12, 2026

Ramallah, occupied Palestine – 59-year-old Palestinian paramedic Hatem Ismail Rayyan, who was abducted by Israeli occupation forces from the Gaza Strip on December 27, 2024, during the siege on the Kamal Adwan Hospital, has been martyred in the Naqab (Negev) prison, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said on Thursday evening through information obtained from the PA’s General Authority for Civil Affairs.

Rayyan was arrested from the hospital along with his son Muath, who was injured by occupation forces, and remains behind bars. Rayyan had suffered a stroke before his arrest, according to his family. Nevertheless, he insisted on continuing to perform his humanitarian duty as a paramedic until Israeli occupation forces arrested him during the siege imposed on Kamal Adwan Hospital.

That period witnessed a wide-scale arrest campaign targeting many medical personnel, including Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, who was arrested on the same day as Rayyan. The targeting of medical staff, along with the siege and destruction of hospitals, has been among the most prominent aspects of the occupation’s crime of genocide in Gaza. Since October 2023, there have been three killings of doctors.

The rise in killings and deaths of Palestinian political prisoners at the hands of the occupation’s prison system and personnel over the past three years comes amid accelerated efforts by to legislate a horrific law to execute of Palestinian prisoners, effectively transforming an extrajudicial execution policy into an officially codified and legalized one.

Rayyan is one of more than 100 Palestinian political prisoners killed in Israeli prisons and army camps since the beginning of the genocide, with the identities of 88 of them announced so far. These killings are the result of widespread torture, systematic starvation policies, medical neglect and abuse, sexual assaults, and a series of deprivation, abuse, humiliation, and detention under inhumane conditions—turning prisons into another arena of genocide and marking the most violent phase in the history of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement.

With the martyrdom of detainee Rayyan, the number of identified Palestinian prisoners who have been killed since the start of the genocide has risen to 88 people, including 52 detainees from Gaza. This brings the total number of identified Palestinian prisoner deaths since 1967 to 325, according to records of the relevant institutions.

Many detainees from Gaza who have died remain victims of enforced disappearance, in addition to dozens who were summarily executed in the field. Images of prisoners’ bodies and remains handed over after the ceasefire have provided clear evidence of systematic extrajudicial executions carried out by Israeli forces against prisoners.

The Commission and the PPS added that, according to available data as of the beginning of February 2026, approximately half of the total number of political prisoners in Israeli prisons are currently held without charge or trial, either under arbitrary administrative detention orders or under the classification of so-called “unlawful combatants.” The total number of Palestinians in Israeli occupation prisons exceeds 9,300, including 3,358 “administrative detainees” and 1,249 classified as “unlawful combatants.”

In conclusion, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society hold hold the occupation authorities fully responsible for the martyrdom of detainee Hatem Rayyan. They renewed their call on the international human rights system to take effective and urgent measures to hold Israeli leaders accountable for war crimes committed against prisoners and the Palestinian people, and to end the state of impunity provided by the United States and international powers to the Israeli occupation system over decades—an impunity that has reached its peak during the genocide, despite overwhelming evidence of its commission against the Palestinian people in Gaza, in addition to war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against prisoners and detainees.

🔴 Update on the Number of Political Prisoners in Israeli Occupation Prisons – February 2026
* These figures are based on information provided by prisoners’ institutions and on what was announced by the Israeli occupation’s Prison Service up to February 2026.
* The number of Palestinian political prisoners and detainees held in Israeli occupation prisons exceeded 9,300 people, as of the start of February 2026.
* Among them are 56 female prisoners, including two girls.
* The number of imprisoned children stands at 350 children, held by the occupation in Megiddo and Ofer prisons.
* The number of administrative detainees held without trial or charge has reached 3,358 people, the highest proportion among prisoners who are sentenced, detained, or classified as “unlawful combatants.”
* The number of detainees classified by the occupation as “unlawful combatants” held without trial or charge is 1,249 people. This figure does not include all Gaza detainees held in camps run by the occupation army and classified under this category. It is also noted that this classification includes Arab detainees from Lebanon and Syria.

Palestinian Prisoners’ Institutions

Medical neglect endangers the lives of detainees held in the clinic of Ramla prison

February 22, 2026

⭕️ The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs stated in a recent report that the conditions of ill and injured detainees held in the so-called “Ramla Prison Clinic” are rapidly worsening.

⭕️ These detainees are considered among the most severe medical cases within Israeli prisons. Yet the prison administration persistently procrastinates in transferring them to civilian hospitals for diagnostic tests or to continue their treatment, instead sending them back to the clinic before completing the required stages of medical care.

⭕️ The detainees further report the poor quality of meals provided, the extremely confined yard space allocated for outdoor time, and the lack of essential supplies, factors that intensify their daily suffering.

 Deportation of Two Jerusalemite Prisoners Signals Broader Targeting and Forced Displacement Amounting to War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity

Commission of Detainees Affairs & Palestinian Prisoner’s Society

February 11, 2026

Ramallah, occupied Palestine - The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society stated that the occupation authorities’ decision to deport two Jerusalemite prisoners, one of whom is a released prisoner, constitutes a dangerous prelude to targeting thousands of prisoners and former prisoners in occupied Jerusalem and the 1948-occupied territories, whether holders of Israeli citizenship or Jerusalem ID cards.

The decision is based on a racist law — the Citizenship and Residency Revocation Law approved by the occupation in 2023 — which is considered one of the most prominent discriminatory legislations aimed at undermining the Palestinian presence in the territories occupied in 1948 and in occupied Jerusalem. Occupation leaders, foremost among them “Netanyahu,” who signed this decision, do not hide their intention to displace and deport Palestinians. Rather, they openly declare their commission of crimes before the eyes and ears of the world, and even compete in doing so.

The two institutions explained that deportations under this discriminatory law are carried out either to the occupied West Bank or to the Gaza Strip. According to the families of the two prisoners, they did not receive any official notification; instead, they learned through media reports about the revocation of citizenship and residency and the issuance of the deportation order.

The Commission and the PPS indicated that this dangerous precedent marks the foundation of a new phase in targeting prisoners and released prisoners in Jerusalem and the 1948-occupied territories, within the framework of a systematic policy that has targeted them and their families through various tools — foremost among them discriminatory legislation affecting different aspects of their lives — with the aim of forcible transfer by tightening restrictions on them using all the tools and policies available to the occupation system.

The two institutions affirmed that Jerusalemites have, even prior to the crime of genocide, faced an escalating series of Israeli policies that constitute a continuation of the Nakba against them. The pace of arrests, demolitions, seizures and confiscations has increased, in addition to deportation orders affecting thousands, particularly from Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surroundings. They added that heavy taxes, fines, and financial penalties estimated at millions of shekels annually, along with organized terror, all constitute tools of systematic forced displacement.

The Commission of Detainees Affairs and the PPS considered that the initiation of implementing this law, along with the occupation’s intention to expand its scope of application, represents a new tool of forced displacement under legal cover.

The two institutions renewed their call on UN bodies to end the state of systematic paralysis regarding the escalating Israeli crimes, which they said represent an extension of the crime of genocide through the collective targeting of Palestinian civilians, the destruction of the foundations of their lives, and pushing them toward forced displacement.

They also stressed that deportation is among the most dangerous of these tools, as it constitutes a crime amounting to a war crime and a crime against humanity under the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Critical health conditions and violent crackdowns against detainees in “Negev” Prison

February 3, 2026

The Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs stated in a report released today, Tuesday, following a visit by its attorney, that a number of detainees held in “Negev” Prison are suffering from serious medical conditions.

Among them is detainee Izz al-Din Abu Hamdi (25) from the city of Jenin, who has an injury to his left eye dating back to 2012, which led to loss of vision. After undergoing several surgeries, his eyesight was restored. However, since his arrest, the detainee has been subjected to violent assaults, during which he was beaten on the head and eye, causing him to lose vision once again in his left eye and suffer severe visual impairment in his right eye.
As a consequence, the detainee has fallen repeatedly, injuring his head, back, and knees while heading to the bathroom.
The detainee also complains of intense head pain during the night, forcing him to cry out and moan due to the severity of the pain.
Despite the detainee’s blindness and his urgent need for medical treatment, the prison administration deliberately neglects his condition and fails to provide him with the necessary care.

Meanwhile, detainee Rami Abu Khalil (37) from Nablus suffers from a curvature of the spine. In addition, his medical eyeglasses were broken, and the prison administration refuses to provide him with a replacement. He also suffers from a torn meniscus in his left knee prior to his arrest and was supposed to undergo surgery, but his detention prevented that.

As for detainee Mohammad Waked (47) from the village of Arqa/Jenin, he suffers from inflammation and pain in the chest area as a result of being assaulted by the “Keter” units, who shot him with two rubber bullets at point-blank range.

The detainee said: “Last Tuesday, on 21/1/2026, prisoners in Section 3 of ‘Negev’ Prison were subjected to a brutal crackdown by the ‘Keter’ unit, during which they were beaten and their ribs were broken.”
He added: “The detention conditions are extremely harsh. Since the war began and until now, there has been no improvement in living conditions. They are virtually non-existent, and the life the detainees are forced to endure is unfit (even for dogs).”
It is worth noting that the detainee is serving a 28-year prison sentence, of which he has already completed 25 years.