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● International Workers’ Day: Palestinian Labor Workers Targeted by Israeli Occupation
May 1, 2025
Ramallah, Palestine - On the occasion of International Workers' Day, which falls on May 1 of each year, Palestinian prisoner defense groups highlight how the Israeli occupation has targeted Palestinian workers for decades, and that arrests and persecution constitute the most prominent oppressive policies pursued against them.
This is in addition to the fact that a large portion of the Palestinian prisoners who fought for the freedom of their land and people are from the working class. Over the decades, the occupation has furthered its policies to target them, deprive them of their rights, and impose increased control and oversight over their right to work and life.
The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association confirmed in a statement that since the beginning of the ongoing genocide, the occupation has escalated its targeting of workers and their persecution through arrests. The issue of Palestinian workers has become one of the most prominent and pressing matters, given the escalation of systematic crimes and violations against them, including arrests, persecution, and torture.
Thousands of Palestinian workers from across Palestine have been subjected to mass arrests and systematic crimes, as part of a policy of collective revenge that the occupation has escalated in an unprecedented manner, compared to previous periods when Palestine witnessed widespread popular uprisings against the Israeli occupation. We recall here the case of Gaza workers, thousands of whom were arrested after October 7 while working in the territories occupied in 1948. They were detained in harsh and oppressive conditions and subjected to systematic torture without trial or charge before the majority were later released. Several of these workers were martyred, while the occupation continues to impose the crime of enforced disappearance on others and refuses to disclose their fate.
The occupation has escalated its persecution and arrests of workers for entering the territories occupied in 1948 without permits, including in occupied Jerusalem. These arrests have been accompanied by various forms of assault and detention in harsh and difficult conditions. This is taking place amidst escalating policies of systematic oppression against our people, the isolation of governorates and towns from one another, the continued expansion of settlements, and the theft of Palestinian funds.
Prisoners' institutions renew their demand to all international human rights bodies at all levels to open an independent international investigation in light of the continued escalation of crimes and the war of genocide against our people in Gaza. They must work to put an end to the escalating and unprecedented crimes against prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons, and to restore the true and necessary role of human rights in the face of the brutality of the occupation, supported by international forces that ignore the entire human and humanitarian community and all the voices of free people in the world.
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Minor detainee Mahmoud Nimer Al -Ali
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Detainees whose identities are known, who was martyred after October 7, 2023 in Israeli prisons
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Palestinians Mark Prisoners’ Day Amid Ongoing Genocide for 2nd Year in a Row
Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
April 16, 2025
Ramallah, Palestine – Amid Israel’s ongoing genocide, thousands of Palestinian political prisoners are experiencing the most severe forms of torture and maltreatment ever recorded since the beginning of the Israeli occupation, prisoner rights groups said today, on the eve of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.
In this report, Palestinian prisoner defense and advocacy groups lay out the key realities and figures surrounding the current situation for political detainees. The abuse of Palestinian prisoners has become yet another facet of the genocide which is taking place with full international complicity.
The rise in systematic crimes practiced against Palestinian political detainees has lead to the direct and indirect killing of 63 identified prisoners since the genocide began, 40 of whom were arrested from the occupied Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the occupation continues to withhold the bodies and identities of dozens of other Palestinian political detainees, leaving their families in the dark.
Since the occupation of 1967, there have now been 300 identified Palestinian political prisoners who were martyred in custody, the last one being the 17-year-old child Walid Ahmad from Silwad who was starved to death in March 2025 as his autopsy showed.
Israeli occupation authorities are using a myriad of horrific ways to kill and injure Palestinian prisoners at an unprecedented rate, with the most prevalent being severe physical assault, denial of medical care, starvation, and torture including sexual assault.
For decades, prisoners have been in a constant and ongoing battle with their jailers to obtain and preserve the most basic rights that should otherwise be afforded to any detainee around the world. They managed to secure their rights through hunger strikes and other forms of protest, often paying for it with their lives, only to have them stripped away entirely since the start of the genocide.
Testimonies and statements from prisoners in custody — relayed by legal teams and documented through released detainees — continue to reveal a shocking and horrifying level of systematic torture, especially in the accounts of detainees from Gaza. These testimonies, in addition to detailing acts of torture, also described unprecedented methods of humiliation designed to degrade human dignity.
The entire international human rights system must view this as a new phase that threatens humanity as a whole, not just Palestinians.
It is important to remember that the Israeli government had already been inciting for the targeting of Palestinian political prisoners and implementing more oppressive policies well before the genocide began. The period before the genocide served as a prelude to the government's intentions, including blatant calls to execute Palestinian prisoners, led by the fascist minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who embodies the broader Israeli occupation system. He has openly called for the shooting of Palestinian detainees in the head as a way to "solve" prison overcrowding.
This incitement reflects the reality that prisoners are currently living through, under a government carrying out the world’s first live-streamed genocide — and with explicit support from powerful international actors.
KEY FACTS AND FIGURES
Since the beginning of the genocide, Israeli occupation forces have carried out at least 16,400 arrests across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, including those who remain in custody and others who were later released. Among the 16,400, there were at least 510 cases of arrests among women, and 1,300 among children.
These figures does not include arrests carried out in the Gaza Strip, which are estimated to be in the thousands. This is due to the occupation’s ongoing crime of enforced disappearances against many detainees abducted from Gaza. Israel prevents the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting the detainees, and withholds information about their numbers, places of detention, their conditions, or any details about their fate - whether they are dead or alive.
In addition to its central prisons, the occupation has established a number of special military camps for holding detainees, particularly those from Gaza. Notable among those are the Sde Teiman military camp, which became infamous for crimes of torture and rape, as well as Rakefet prison, Anatot military camp, Ofer military camp, Naftali military camp, and Menasha military camp. These are the only camps that the prisoner groups have been able to monitor; there may be secret prisons and camps hidden from the public.
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation’s increased use of administrative detention (AD) - or holding residents without trial or charge - has become one of the most significant transformations of the period since the genocide. The number of Palestinians held under AD has reached a historic high of 3,498 people as of the beginning of April 2025, including over 100 children and four female prisoners.
Before the genocide, the number of Palestinians held under this arbitrary order stood at approximately 1,320 people. The figure began to rise with the arrival of the far-right Israeli government in 2021, before the genocide.
It is clear that since its occupation of Palestinian territories, Israel has used the policy of AD as an arbitrary measure against residents, with tens of thousands detained over the years. Alongside the rise in its use of AD, the occupation has escalated its arrests based on freedom of expression, using the pretext of “incitement" to detain many. Social media platforms have become a central tool for repression, surveillance and arrests.
Medical crimes also weigh heavily on prisoners, particularly with the continued infestation of scabies skin disease, which has led to the martyrdom of prisoners. The majority of detainees suffer from scabies, particularly in the Naqab, Megiddo, and Ofer prisons, where the disease is increasing. Despite the disease arising over a year ago, occupation authorities continue to deny providing the detainees with basic hygienic products to disinfect their environment, as well as access to clean clothes, sun exposure and regular showers, all of which is taking place amid severe and unprecedented overcrowding in Israeli prisons.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military assault on the northern West Bank continues for close to four months, with occupation forces continuing to carry out mass arrests accompanied by horrific acts against detainees such as extrajudicial executions, using residents as human shields and as hostages to pressure their family members to surrender. This comes alongside severe abuse including during sudden field interrogations, physical assault, international mass vandalism and destruction of detainees’ homes, theft of vehicles, money and jewelry, as well as threats of murder and abuse of detainees and their families, and widespread destruction of infrastructure and homes in Jenin and Tulkarem.
DATA AS OF EARLY APRIL 2025
- Number of Palestinian political prisoners: Exceeds 9,900 people, not including all the detainees abducted from occupied Gaza and are subjected to the crime of enforced disappearance.
- Females: There are currently 29 female prisoners, including one arrested from Gaza as well as one minor.
- Children: There are around 400 Palestinian children held, distributed across Megiddo and Ofer prisons.
- “Administrative Detainees” (without trial or charge, applied to West Bank and Jerusalem residents): The number of administrative detainees in Israeli prisons has risen at an unprecedented rate since the beginning of the genocide, reaching over 3,498 administrative detainees (as of early April), including four women and more than 100 children. The majority of administrative detainees are former prisoners, in addition to other groups such as: school and university students, journalists, human rights activists, lawyers, engineers, doctors, academics, members of parliament, activists, workers, and first-degree relatives of martyrs and prisoners, including sisters of martyrs and wives of prisoners.
- “Unlawful Combatants” (without trial or charge, applied to Gaza residents): At least 1,747 residents of Gaza are being held under this arbitrary law as of early April 2025.
- The number of sick prisoners in Israeli prisons has also risen, with hundreds of sick and injured prisoners. Their numbers continue to grow due to the crimes and punitive policies systematically imposed by the occupation, the most notable of which are torture and medical deprivation.
Palestinian prisoners’ institutions persist in urging the international human rights system to take decisive action to hold the leaders of the occupation accountable for the war crimes they continue to commit against our people. They demand the imposition of comprehensive sanctions on the occupation to isolate it on the global stage, thereby restoring the international human rights system to its rightful role in upholding justice and human dignity. This is essential to break the paralyzing inaction that has allowed the ongoing genocide and aggression to persist unchecked. The institutions also call for the immediate end to the exceptional immunity granted to the occupying state, which has consistently evaded accountability, judgment, and punishment for its systematic violations of international law. It is time to hold the occupation to account and ensure that its impunity comes to an end.
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Commission of Detainees Affairs
28 years spent in the occupation's prisons
23 years
Since the last arrest of the leader
Marwan Barghouti
Leader Barghouti is isolated in Megiddo Prison.
He is sentenced to five life sentences and 40 years.
He suffered injuries since last September as a result of a brutal beating.
He has been arrested many times, the first being at the age of 15.
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Detainees held in Megiddo prison were subjected to assaults by special forces
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Commission of Detainees’ Affairs
The administration of Megiddo Prison deliberately served spoiled food to detainees
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Deliberate medical ignorance against detainees in Al-Ramla clinic and Ofer prison
April 8, 2025
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs disclosed deliberate ignorance cases for detainees who are held in the clinic of Al-Ramla prison
Cases in point :
. Detainee Ibrahim Shalhoub, 28, from Toulkarem, who suffers from severe pain and extreme difficulty speaking, as a result of being shot 14 times in various parts of his body during his arrest on 27/12/2024. Meanwhile, the prison administration deliberately subjects him to the worst forms of psychological torture and constantly threatens him with death.
. Detainee Muhammad Fayyoumi, 32, from Qalqilia. He suffers from gunshot wounds to his right hand and pelvis. These injuries initially left him unable to walk after his arrest.
. Detainee Naser Abedrabuh, 58, from Jerusalem, was shot with rubber bullets from a distance of less than two meters on 04/03/2025 while he was in Naqab Prison, after he refused to comply with an issued exile order.
With regard to detainee held in ofer prison:
. Detainee Muhammad Rayyan, 24, from Jerusalem, suffers from severe pain in his bones, He was involved in an accident three months prior to his arrest, resulting in the complete loss of his right hand and the loss of fingers on his left hand. He requires special care, painkillers, antibiotics, and warmth.
. Detainee Abdulhafeeth Ghazzawi, 25, from Ramallah, suffers from scabies and can’t sleep at night due to intense itching.
. Detainee Fares Farouq, 27,from Bait Duqqo/ Jerusalem, was subjected to harsh beating and brutal attacks in section 25 last month. During the lawyer's visit, he reported that "armed forces threw gas canisters into the section before storming in, tied all of us face-down on the ground, beat us, stripped us naked, and hurled insults at us."
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Palestinian Children Behind Bars
Annual Palestinian Child’s Day Report
April 5, 2025
Report prepared by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
Ramallah, Palestine - At least 350 Palestinian children are currently being held by the Israeli occupation in various central prisons and military camps across the country, including more than 100 of them who are incarcerated without trial or charge under Israel’s unlawful military court system.
On the occasion of the Palestinian Child’s Day marked annually on April 5, Palestinian political prisoners’ legal defense and advocacy groups issue this report highlighting key facts and figures surrounding the children held in difficult conditions behind Israeli bars amid the most violent period yet in the Palestinian people’s struggle against the occupation.
Like the rest of the thousands of political prisoners held by the occupation, Palestinian children face a wide array of abuses and rights violations including torture, starvation, deprivation of medical care and systematic maltreatment. These policies lead to the killing of the first child detainee since the start of the genocide in Gaza in October 2023. The minor, 17-year-old Walid Ahmad from the town of Silwad near Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, was martyred in Israel’s Megiddo prison on March 22, 2025.
In parallel with Israel’s significantly increasing mass arrests since the genocide, children have not been spared. No less than 1,200 cases of arrests among children in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem have been recorded since October 2023. As for Gaza, Israeli authorities have blocked the ability of Palestinian lawyers and prisoner groups from gaining access to information on the number of cases of arrest among children as well as the number who remain in custody with many subject to the severe crime of enforced disappearance.
Over the past few months, legal teams of prisoner groups have been able to carry out visits to many child detainees in the Israeli prisons of Ofer, Megiddo, and Damon, despite the heavy restrictions imposed on lawyer visits. During these visits, dozens of testimonies were collected from the children, reflecting the level of brutality they are subjected to.
They have been enduring an unprecedented level and scale of abuse behind bars. Severe physical assault by Israeli occupation guards is one of the most prominent abuses taking place inside prisons, including through sudden, violent raids on their cells by specialized prison units leaving many of them wounded. Statistics and documented testimonies indicate that the majority of the children arrested are subject to one or more forms of physical and psychological torture, through a range of systematic methods that violate enshrined protection laws, international standards and child rights agreements.
Additionally, there have been cases of executions of Palestinian children during their arrest as well as documentation of cases where occupation soldiers used children as hostages to pressure family members into surrendering. There are also instances where the occupation’s intelligence services summon the families of the children, forcing them to bring their children for military interrogations. Dozens of children are also being subject to mass field interrogations.
The abuse of Palestinian children begins from the moment of their arrests in the late hours of the night, where dozens of heavily armed soldiers raid Palestinian homes in a violent manner and cause intentional vandalism and destruction before the arrest, terrorizing the child and their entire family.
Many of these children are injured or ill, and during their arrests, occupation soldiers use humiliating and degrading methods that violate their dignity. The majority of them are held in detention centers belonging to the occupation army under tragic conditions, with threats, insults, severe beatings, and deprivation of food and access to restrooms for long hours. This is done in an attempt to pressure them into making confessions. Children are also coerced into signing documents written in Hebrew which they do not read or understand. In addition, dozens of sick and wounded children have been denied medical treatment by prison authorities, including those suffering from chronic and serious diseases and various levels of injuries.
Starvation of Child Detainees
The crime of starvation, which is being perpetrated against prisoners, including children, has taken center stage in testimonies collected after the war on Gaza. Hunger looms over the child prisoners’ sections in an unprecedented manner, to the point where many of them are being forced to fast for days. What the prison administration refers to as meals are, in fact, mere scraps of food. While prisoners have, for decades, established certain standards within the sections with the help of adult prisoner supervisors, this system has effectively ceased to exist. The prison administration now exclusively controls the children, with no oversight as to what happens to them. The care that prisoners had attempted to establish through sacrifice was dismantled by the prison administration, just like all the previous conditions of prison life prior to the genocide.
Walid Ahmed, a 17-year-old child, was arrested from his family home in Silwad on September 30, 2024. During the months he spent in Megiddo prison, he faced systematic crimes, the most notable of which was the crime of starvation, which led to his martyrdom on March 22, 2025. Walid had suffered from scabies (the skin disease) for several months and was subjected to denial of medical care alongside intentional starvation, being completely deprived of treatment until his death. According to the post-mortem medical report of his autopsy, the primary cause of death was starvation.
Dozens of Children Contracted Scabies in Megiddo Prison and Were Denied Treatment
In recent months, child detainees have been suffering from skin diseases, most notably scabies, which has become a health disaster across several central prisons. The occupation has effectively used this disease as a tool to torture prisoners, including child detainees, by depriving them of treatment and of the necessary tools to eradicate the disease. The prison administration deliberately failed to take any measures to limit the spread of the diseases, which can be life-threatening if left untreated.
According to numerous legal team reports, many prisoners, including children, who went for visits had their bodies covered in sores and complained of being unable to sleep due to the intense itching they continuously endure. Despite some efforts by prisoner organizations to pressure the prison administration to provide the necessary tools to prevent the spread of the disease, particularly by ensuring an acceptable level of hygiene, the disease continues to spread widely among the prisoners, leading to the martyrdom of some prisoners in the past months due to the physical complications that arose from this disease.
Over 100 Children Held Without Trial or Charge
Israel’s military court system allows for the detention of Palestinian children without trial or charge under a “secret file” which neither the detainee nor the lawyer have access to in what is referred to as “administrative detention.” Since the genocide, the occupation’s practice of using this pretext to detain and incarcerate Palestinians, including children, has reached unprecedented levels. The number of Palestinians held under administrative detention as a whole reached 3,498 by early April 2025. Among them, there are over 100 children, including some under the age of 15, being held in administrative detention. These figures have never been recorded historically, even during the peak of confrontations in the most prominent uprisings against the occupation.
Occupation’s Military Courts: Part of the Brutality Against Children
The occupation relentlessly continues its crimes against Palestinian children, subjecting them to unjust military trials that lack the fundamental guarantees of due process, just as with all Palestinian political prisoners under Israeli detention. These sham trials serve as a tool for further oppression, where the rights of Palestinian children are systematically violated. Israeli military courts in the West Bank and the occupation courts in Jerusalem have become central instruments in this widespread abuse.
A particularly alarming and inhumane practice is the imposition of house arrest, which has become a prevalent tactic against Palestinian children, especially in occupied Jerusalem. This policy effectively transforms their homes into prisons, confining children to their residences under harsh conditions. The occupation authorities impose house arrest in a manner that isolates these children from their communities, education, and essential support networks, further exacerbating their suffering and denying them the most basic rights afforded to children under international law.
Call for International Action
Palestinian prisoners’ institutions persist in urging the international human rights system to take decisive action to hold the leaders of the occupation accountable for the war crimes they continue to commit against our people. They demand the imposition of comprehensive sanctions on the occupation to isolate it on the global stage, thereby restoring the international human rights system to its rightful role in upholding justice and human dignity. This is essential to break the paralyzing inaction that has allowed the ongoing genocide and aggression to persist unchecked. The institutions also call for the immediate end to the exceptional immunity granted to the occupying state, which has consistently evaded accountability, judgment, and punishment for its systematic violations of international law. It is time to hold the occupation to account and ensure that its impunity comes to an end.
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Abu Al-Hummos: "The Independent’s Report Confirms the Occupation’s Brutality and Criminality Against Palestinian Detainees"
March 31, 2025
The Head of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Raed Abu Al-Hummos, responded this morning (Monday) to a report published by the British newspaper The Independent on Sunday. The report shed light on testimonies from Palestinian detainees who endured severe torture by occupation forces, represented in beatings, electric shocks, rape, and stabbing.
Abu Al-Hummos stated, "The Independent’s revelations expose the grave and systematic violations Palestinian detainees are subjected to. They face extreme abuse at the hands of occupation soldiers, prison administration forces, and specialized units, with no oversight or legal constraints on the investigation process.
Their fate is determined by the mood of the Israeli interrogators and soldiers.
He further emphasized, "The failure of international organizations to uphold their humanitarian and moral responsibilities, using the occupation’s refusal to cooperate as an excuse, has contributed to create an unprecedented reality in the history of the Palestinian Captive Movement.
Since October 7, 2023, the conditions inside Israeli prisons have become the most violent and lawless in recent history, while the international community remains a passive spectator to these atrocities."
Abu Al-Hummos pointed out that torture, sexual violence, electric shocks, stabbing, deliberate medical neglect, starvation, and extrajudicial killings are all systematic war crimes for which Israeli leaders must be held accountable.
He warned against allowing the occupation further impunity in its treatment of detainees , particularly in newly established detention sites, both known and undisclosed, that have effectively become living graves.
He called for serious attention to The Independent’s findings and the harrowing testimonies it presented. He also stressed the urgency of international intervention to put an end to these Israeli crimes and to ensure access to the military facilities that have been turned into detention centers, where some of the most horrific abuses and crimes are believed to be taking place.
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Abu Al-Hummos: "We Warn Against the Systematic Execution of the Leaders Huwayl and Abu Rmeileh"
March 28, 2025
The Head of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Raed Abu Al- Hummos issued a stark warning today, Friday, about the deliberate and systematic slow execution policy being carried out against the two imprisoned leaders, Jamal Huwayl and Atta Abu Rmeileh.
He urgently called on the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross and all regional and international human rights and humanitarian organizations to take immediate action to halt this brutal practice before it is too late.
Abu Al-Hummos stressed that the overall conditions inside Israeli prisons and detention centers have reached an unprecedented level of cruelty and danger. However, what is being inflicted specifically upon Huwayl and Abu Rmeileh goes far beyond mistreatment, it is a deliberate assassination in slow motion. The prison administration relentlessly humiliates them, raids their cells at all hours, assaults them physically, and enforces a ruthless starvation policy aimed at breaking them down both physically and psychologically.
He further revealed that the systematic deprivation of food and essential medical care has caused both leaders to suffer extreme weight loss, shedding dozens of kilograms. Their health has now reached a life threatening stage, particularly Abu Rmeileh, whose weight has plummeted below 40 kilograms, placing him on the brink of death.
Abu Al-Hummos also disclosed that due to their catastrophic health deterioration, the prison administration was forced to isolate them in confinement cells, designated for detainees whose weight has remarkably decreased. Yet, instead of providing medical attention, they are being subjected to further neglect, locked in pairs under inhumane conditions.
He further warned that the brutal starvation policy imposed on them has already severely damaged their vital organs. Abu Rmeileh, in particular, suffers from a serious heart condition and urgently requires open-heart surgery, yet he remains deprived of necessary medical intervention, putting his life in imminent danger.
It is crucial to highlight that Jamal Huwayl, a prominent member of Fatah’s Revolutionary Council, has been imprisoned for the past eight months, while Atta Abu Rmeileh, the Secretary of Fatah’s regional branch, has been detained for approximately a year and a half. Both leaders, who hail from Jenin, were arrested under the pretext of incitement, yet they are now enduring a premeditated execution behind bars.
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Health condition of Detainee Muhammad Karajah
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Health condition of Detainee Dr. Muhammad Wahdan
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On Mother's Day: 14 Palestinian Mothers Languish in Israeli Prisons
March 21, 2025
Ramallah, Palestine – At least 14 Palestinian mothers are being held in Israeli occupation prisons, prevented from any kind of contact with their children - who are likewise suffering - prisoner rights groups said today which is Mother’s Day in the region.
Palestinian women, like all segments of Palestinian society, are living through the most violent period in the history of the occupation. Female political prisoners, in particular, are undergoing the worst conditions yet including sexual assault, maltreatment, torture and abuse.
As part of its ongoing genocide and heightened violence, the occupation’s mass arrest campaigns have targeted tens of thousands of Palestinians, including women and mothers. The rate of arrests among women has reached the highest figure historically, with the occupation military carrying out at least 500 arrests of women. The arrests included abducted women, including mothers, wives and sisters, who were used as hostages to pressure their male family members into surrendering.
Please find below a briefing on the occasion of Mother’s Day prepared by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) & Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association??
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Israel carries out 15,700 political arrests of Palestinians in West Bank since Gaza genocide
March 18, 2025
Ramallah, Palestine – The Israeli occupation army has carried out 15,700 political arrests of Palestinians across the West Bank and Jerusalem since the start of the genocide in Gaza in October 2023, prisoner institutions said in a briefing today.
This figure does not represent the number of individuals arrested, but rather cases of arrest. It includes those who remain in detention, and those who were later released. It does not include the total number of arrests from occupied Gaza, which is estimated to be in the thousands.
Among the 15,700, there have been approximately 500 cases of arrest among Palestinian women in the West Bank, at least 1,200 cases of arrest among Palestinian children, and at least 170 cases of arrest amid journalists.
The number of Palestinians held in the occupation's military camps and central prisons exceeds 9,500 people as of the start of March 2025, not including all of those abducted from Gaza.
Please find a short briefing paper in English below breaking down the facts and figures??
Israel carries out 15,700 political arrests of Palestinians in West Bank since start of Gaza genocide
Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
March 18, 2025
Ramallah, Palestine – The Israeli occupation army has carried out 15,700 political arrests of Palestinians across the West Bank and Jerusalem since the start of the genocide in October 2023. This figure does not represent the number of individuals arrested, but rather cases of arrest. It includes those who remain in detention, and those who were later released. It does not include the total number of arrests from occupied Gaza, which is estimated to be in the thousands.
- Women: There have been approximately 500 cases of arrest among Palestinian females in the West Bank. The 500 figure includes women arrested from the 1948-occupied territories, as well as women from Gaza who were arrested in the occupied West Bank. It does not however include dozens of other women who were abducted from the occupied Gaza Strip and are being subject to enforced disappearances.
- Children: There have been at least 1,200 cases of arrest among Palestinian minors.
- Journalists: Arrests among journalists reached more than 170 cases of arrest, of whom 51 remain in detention, including two female journalists.
Key figures until start of March 2025
The number of Palestinians held in the occupation's military camps and central prisons exceeds 9,500 people as of the end of February and start of March 2025.
These include:
- At least 350 children and 26 females including one minor.
- 3,405 Palestinians are being held without trial or charge, under the ‘administrative detention’ military order.
- 1,555 Palestinians abducted from the occupied Gaza Strip and are being held without trial or charge under the Israeli “illegal combatants” law. Note that this figure does not include all Gaza detainees, particularly those held in the occupation’s military camps.
Before the genocide, there was a total of 5,250 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, including 40 females, 170 children, and around 1,320 “administrative detainees.”
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Abu Hummos discusses the latest developments on detainees’ cause with Pertron Lamon
March 17, 2020
The head of the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Raed Abu Hummos, received the director of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) offices in the West Bank and Jerusalem, Pertron Lamon, on Monday morning, to discuss the latest developments related to the living conditions of detainees held in Israeli prisons and the detainees released by the exchange deal.
Abu Hummos confirmed that the general conditions in prisons still difficult and complicated. He warned that the escalating Israeli measures against male and female detainees pose a real threat to their lives.
Prison guards have crossed the lines in dealing with detainees, in terms of beating, insult, starvation and torture.
Regarding detainees released in the exchange deal, Abu Hummos called on the ICRC to fulfill its obligations and stressed that its presence in the occupied territories and the nature if its work require taking a bold step to monitor the actions of the occupation authorities and document their violations in official reports.
Abu Hummos criticized the ICRC for refraining from issuing release certificates for detainees who were released by the exchange deal, which contradicts the organization’s objectivity and independence, as the pretext of not receiving official lists from the occupation authorities of the release date is not acceptable. He pointed out that the exchange deal process was conducted under the ICRC supervision, and detainees were medically examined by their teams. Thus, this is sufficient for the ICRC to fulfill its obligations and issue release certificates without permission or instructions from the occupation authorities.
Abu Hummos stressed on the deep faith in partnership and collaboration with the ICRC, which must be based on humanitarian and ethical principles. He demonstrated that the first stage of the exchange deal reflected a successful working relationship between both sides.
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Increased Suffering for Negev Prison Detainees During Ramadan
March 16, 2025
The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs stated in its report that detainees in Negev Prison are subjected to ill treatment by prison guards. They have faced repression, beatings, and rubber bullets multiple times over the past week.
Additionally, the prison administration deliberately placed detainees infected with scabies with those who are not, intentionally spreading the infection as a form of punishment.
Moreover, it exploits the holy month of Ramadan to further tighten restrictions by reducing food portions.
According to the lawyer’s visit, Detainee Ahmad Radwan Hamamrah, 26, from Kufr Aqab/ Jerusalem suffers from bad health conditions, as he’s in an advanced stage of scabies, with boils covering all his features.
As for detainee Alaa Shalaldah, 23, from Hebron, suffers from pain in the joints, sinusitis and breath shortness.
With regard to detainee Muhammad Hazeen, 35, from Qalandia refugee camp/ Jerusalem, he suffers from diabetes and hypertension.
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Electric Shocks & Buckets for Bathrooms: New Horrific Testimonies from Palestinian Political Detainees
Palestinian Prisoner’s Society & Commission of Detainees’ Affairs
March 2025
Ramallah, Palestine – Newly-gathered testimonies of Palestinian political prisoners held by the Israeli occupation reveal high levels of ongoing abuse and torture, particularly of detainees abducted from the Gaza Strip, who are facing the highest rates and worst kinds of maltreatment.
Lawyers of the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) visited detainees held at the notorious Sde Teiman military detention camp, the Ofer military camp, as well as the Naqab prison.
The testimonies reflect a wide array of crimes being practiced against detainees. These encompass various types of torture including water, sound and electric torture, severe physical assault, prolonged shackling, deliberately unsanitary living conditions leading to diseases, and medical deprivation among many other things. This level of abuse of detainees often leads to false confessions.
Detainees abducted from occupied Gaza who were visited in the Naqab prison told lawyers that they are held in sections with no toilets, forcing them to relieve themselves in buckets. Prisoners are also prevented from showering or changing their clothes for months at a time. Meanwhile, many detainees were made to believe by soldiers that their family members including their children were killed during the genocide, only to find out through lawyer’s visits months later that that information is false, in what is yet another form of psychological and mental torture.
These are just some examples of the horrific details in the testimonies we gathered laid out in the report below ??
Electric Shocks & Buckets for Bathrooms:
New Horrific Testimonies from Palestinian Political Detainees
Palestinian Prisoner’s Society & Commission of Detainees’ Affairs
March 2025
Ramallah, Palestine – Newly-gathered testimonies of Palestinian political prisoners held by the Israeli occupation reveal high levels of ongoing abuse and torture, particularly of detainees abducted from the Gaza Strip, who are facing the highest rates and worst kinds of maltreatment.
Lawyers of the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) visited detainees held at the notorious Sde Teiman military detention camp, the Ofer military camp, as well as the Naqab prison.
The testimonies reflect a wide array of crimes being practiced against detainees. These encompass various types of torture including water, sound and electric torture, severe physical assault, prolonged shackling, deliberately unsanitary living conditions leading to diseases, and medical deprivation among many other things. This level of abuse of detainees often leads to false confessions.
Detainees abducted from occupied Gaza who were visited in the Naqab prison told lawyers that they are held in sections with no toilets, forcing them to relieve themselves in buckets. Prisoners are also prevented from showering or changing their clothes for months at a time. Meanwhile, many detainees were made to believe by soldiers that their family members including their children were killed during the genocide, only to find out through lawyer’s visits months later that that information is false, in what is yet another form of psychological and mental torture.
Dozens of Palestinian detainees have been martyred in the occupation’s custody in an unprecedented rate of killings since the genocide in Gaza in October 2023. This has included both direct murder such as raping, torturing and beating prisoners to death, as well as indirect killings using intentional medical deprivation and other methods. Over the past few weeks, four detainees were killed in a matter of days.
Palestinian prisoner institutions affirm that the Israeli occupation holds full responsibility for every detainee who lost their lives in its custody as well as the for the fate of thousands more who remain behind bars. While there are at least 9,500 Palestinians in Israel’s custody, hundreds more detainees who were abducted from Gaza remain forcibly disappeared.
Torture, physical assault & abuse
- Detainee (S.A.): "I was arrested from al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. I was held in military camps for 97 days in the Gaza envelope. I was then held at Ofer Prison for 30 days, after which I was transferred to the Naqab prison. I was interrogated during my arrest and subjected to severe physical assault, causing deep wounds to my head and broken ribs. I was subjected to harsh interrogation for 30 days after my arrest, including the 'disco interrogation' torture method.[1] I was subjected to this type of torture more than seven times, accompanied by beatings, deprivation of food, and permission to shower. In Naqab prison, I was also interrogated, and due to the intensity of the torture and beatings, I lost consciousness several times. This led me to make false confessions to things I didn’t do."
- Detainee (M.Y.): "I was detained with about 40 other men. They stripped us completely naked and made us wear white clothing they provided. During this time, we were continuously physically attacked and beaten with sticks and boots; no one was spared. This led to many being injured including myself. I suffered from prolonged nosebleeding without receiving any treatment. After about 24 hours, we were transferred to Sde Teiman military camp, where we were given prison uniforms. Until then, we remained in white clothes in the freezing cold while being beaten. I remained blindfolded and handcuffed for 14 days. I was also subjected to the 'disco' interrogation for 12 hours, where I was placed in a closed room with very loud music. Throughout this time, I was blindfolded. After I was exhausted from the sound, they tried to pressure me into cooperating with them, but I refused.”
- Detainee (D.A.): "I was arrested in the morning hours after soldiers filmed me with a camera and told me I wouldn’t be able to go back to Gaza. In the afternoon, soldiers transferred other detainees and I by truck to the Sde Teiman camp. On the way, we were severely beaten. I was repeatedly beaten on my stomach and face. During this time, I remained handcuffed and blindfolded. When we entered the camp, they gave us prison uniforms, and I remained handcuffed and blindfolded for 12 days. During that time, I was forced to sit in humiliating and painful positions, especially on my knees. Inside the barracks of the prison, they deliberately took our mattresses daily and prevented us from lying down all day. This continued for 39 days. I was able to change my clothes for the first time after 72 days and was able to shave my head only after 110 days of my arrest."
- Detainee (N. W.): "My hands were tied and blindfolded the entire time. They forced us to sit in certain positions, specifically on our knees. Four days after my arrest, I was taken to meet with the intelligence services. I waited a full day for the interview, and throughout this period, I remained handcuffed in a very painful manner. Despite my request to loosen the handcuffs slightly, they refused. I also remained without food or drink throughout this period. I do not know which camp I was being held in at the start of my detention. My hands were tied and blindfolded the entire time, sitting on my knees. The place was very cold. After 21 days, I was transferred to the Sde Teiman camp, where I was severely beaten, specifically in the chest area. As a result, I started experiencing shortness of breath. We were electrocuted and hit with weapons."
Starvation & skin diseases
- Detainee (J.W.): "I still suffer from scabies and boils on my body. I was also severely beaten during my frequent transfers, and as a result, I have a broken tooth, which causes me severe and constant pain. I can no longer hear well out of my left ear after they poured water into it in a harmful way. The detainees are suffering from starvation. Only a small amount of food is provided. What is called a meal is barely a quarter of a meal for each detainee and the quality is unfit for human consumption. Detainees save the small pieces of food given to them throughout the day to eat them as one meal in the evening."
- Detainee (K.Y.) is held with 55 others at the Sde Teiman military camp in what detainees are referring to as a ‘barracks: “We are subject to near-daily physical assault, repression, sound and gas bombs inside the barracks after being ordered to lie on our stomachs and to remain like that for a long period of time. The prison guards keep screaming at us and beating us when we are taken for interrogation. They also deliberately trip us while walking, while we are blindfolded and handcuffed during the transfer. We are subject to the whims of the soldiers practicing torture and humiliation against us. Sometimes we are allowed to walk, but most of the time we remain seated on the metal beds, two prisoners per bed. We are not allowed to talk, and anyone who disobeys is punished by being shackled for hours next to the 'fence' – the area designated for shackling in the 'barracks.'"
- Detainee (A. H.): "Upon my arrest, they separated the men from the women; the men were taken to a nearby building, and ordered to strip completely. They then attacked them with severe beatings while they were naked, and insulted and called them the worst names. After two hours, we were transferred in a truck, then to another location where we stayed for an entire night. Throughout this time, we were subjected to beatings and humiliation. They submerged our heads in water[2] and they threatened us with murdering us. We were forced to kneel on the ground while naked, and we were forced to say, "Moses is the Messenger of God." Throughout the night, we remained naked in the freezing cold, bound and blindfolded. When we were transferred to the Sde Teiman camp, we were examined by a doctor, but he ignored our injuries. We were later transferred to the ‘barracks,’ where we remained for 90 days. We were also bound and blindfolded for another 20 days.”
Detainee (A. H.) added: "Repressive measures are systematic. About 20 days ago, they attacked us with sound bombs. One of these bombs exploded next to me, injuring my foot and shoulder. I did not receive any treatment, even though I suffered prolonged pain. These attacks occur on a weekly basis, sometimes multiple times a week. This did not stop during Ramadan. Before the pre-dawn meal, they stormed the barracks, forced us to sleep on the floor, and attacked us with beatings, insults, and hurled sound bombs at us."
- Detainee (Z. L.): "Upon my arrest, they handcuffed and blindfolded me. We were then taken to a building, then to an open area in the bitter cold. It was raining heavily. We were later transferred to the Sde Teiman camp. We were completely naked, and they were constantly cursing and shouting at us. Initially, we were placed in an arch-shaped barracks for 12 days. We were more than 70 detainees at the time. They had to sit the entire time with their hands tied and blindfolded. They were forced to keep the handcuffs on even when they needed to relieve themselves."
Detainee (Z. L.) added: "The first time I was able to change my clothes after my arrest was on the 50th day." He also that they were subjected to violent beatings. There were detainees who were injured and bleeding as a result of the assault.” His head was hit against a wall, causing an eye injury, the marks of which are still visible, the lawyer who visited him said.
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[1] The use of ‘music torture’ referred to as the ‘disco interrogation method,’ is when detainees are exposed to loud noise or music for prolonged periods of time. This practice is often paired with stress positions, sleep deprivation and intentional starvation. It was used by the United States army in Iraq and has been used in Guantanamo Bay prison.
[2] Dunking a detainee’s head in water is one form of physical torture that involves suffocating the detainee in water for prolonged periods of time.
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Over 760 arrests in occupied West Bank in February 2025: Palestinian prisoners’ institutions
March 10, 2025
Ramallah, Palestine - Israeli occupation authorities continue to carry out mass arrests in the West Bank. The total number of arrests in February 2025 reached 762, with the majority targeting Jenin city, villages and its refugee camp. That figure indicates cases of arrest and not individuals. Among the 762, there were 19 cases of arrest among women, and 90 cases among children. This does not include the hundreds of Palestinians temporarily abducted during hours-long field interrogations across the occupied West Bank.
Please find below a report by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) & Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, highlighting key facts and figures surrounding Palestinian detainees in February 2025.
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International Women’s Day 2025 Report: Female Palestinian Political Detainees
Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) & the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs
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Elderly Palestinian Political Detainee Killed in Israeli Occupation’s Custody
6/3/2025
Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & the Palestinian Prisoner's Society
Ramallah, Palestine - Israeli occupation authorities have disclosed the martyrdom of a 62-year-old Palestinian male detainee in their custody two weeks after his death: Ali Ashour Ali al-Batsh, who was abducted from the occupied Gaza Strip 14 months ago.
The Palestinian General Authority of Civil Affairs was informed only today, March 6, 2025, that al-Batsh lost his life on February 21. The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and the Commission of Detainees' Affairs subsequently informed his family.
Al-Batsh, who is a husband and father to six children, was abducted by occupation forces on December 12, 2023. He lost his life days after he was transferred from the occupation’s Naqab prison where he was being held, to the Soroka Hospital.
Al-Batsh is the latest Palestinian political prisoner to be killed by the occupation in its custody. The rate and frequency of killings of Palestinian detainees is unprecedented, particularly since the genocide in Gaza. The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs affirm once again that the Israeli occupation holds full responsibility for the murder of al-Batsh and dozens of other detainees in its custody - some of whom were tortured to death - and must be held accountable for these crimes.
Al-Batsh is the fourth Palestinian detainee to be martyred in just over a week. With his killing, the number of identified martyred Palestinian detainees since the start of the genocide on October 7, 2023, to 62 people, at least 40 of whom were abducted from the occupied Gaza Strip. As a result, the number of identified martyred Palestinian detainees since the occupation of 1967 has risen to 299 people. Additionally, the number of martyred detainees whose bodies are still being withheld by the occupation has risen to 71 people, including 60 people since the genocide.
The occupation army only responds sporadically and arbitrarily to legal requests for information, and often uses the pretext of an ‘ongoing investigation’ to evade accountability, and to torture Palestinians both physically and mentally as a matter of policy. The Israeli army is the only official side able to reveal the fate of martyred Palestinian detainees since there is no evidence of their killing with the army continuing to withhold their bodies.
The Commission and the PPS stress that the rate of Palestinian detainees losing their lives is unprecedented and will only increase with time. Thousands of Palestinians are held behind bars undergoing a myriad of severe violations including torture, starvation, sexual assault, deprivation of medical treatment, unsanitary conditions leading grave and infectious diseases. The international community must act now to save the lives of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli custody.
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▪️ March 2025 update on number of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli occupation’s custody
As of the start of March, the number of Palestinians held in Israeli occupation prisons, detention centers and military camps has exceeded 9,500 people. This figure does not include all the people who were arrested from Gaza, particularly those being held in military camps.
The 9,500 people include:
- More than 350 Palestinian children
- At least 21 Palestinian women
- 3,405 Palestinians are held without trial or charge, under ‘administrative detention’
- 1,555 Palestinians who were arrested from Gaza, held without trial or charge, under “illegal combatants” law
Before the genocide, the number of Palestinians held in the occupation’s custody was at least 5,250 people, including 40 female prisoners, 170 children, and approximately 1,320 ‘administrative detainees.’
Note: The number of detainees is subject to change on a daily basis due to ongoing arrest campaigns.
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Detainees held in Gilboa prison suffer from critical health conditions
March 4, 2025
. Detainees held in Gilboa prison complained about the tough procedures implemented during Ramadan in terms of the extreme cold, brutal treatment and malnutrition.
They asked for the following:
. Immediate provision of additional copies of the Quran, as there is only one copy per room.
. Allow the entry of wristwatches into the rooms.
. Access to accurate prayer and fasting (Imsak) schedules.
. Improvement of the Iftar meal by increasing portions and providing more variety.
. To perform all religious rituals without restrictions.
*Detainees who were visited:
. Detainee Muhammad Mahmoud, from Um Alfahem town, suffers from critical health condition due to scabies infection, in the light of deliberate medical neglect, in addition to ill treatment and repeated attacks by prison guards.
.Detainee Basel Abu Tamam, suffers from neurological seizures and has also scabies, which led to a severe skin infection requiring antibiotics. Despite his condition, he was subjected to beatings by prison guards.