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Israeli occupation authorities have intensified abusive measures against Palestinian women held in the Damon Prison, where female detainees—including two minors and three pregnant women—have reported a sharp rise in systematic…
Palestinian prisoner institutions reported that the number of Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons has risen by 83 percent since the start of the since October 2023. According to current…
The Palestinian Detainees and Ex‑Detainees Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society announced on Friday the death of Riyad al‑Amour, a former political prisoner who had been forcibly transferred to…
Israeli authorities have confirmed to the Supreme Court that they buried the body of 14‑year‑old Wadea‘ Shadi Elian from occupied Jerusalem in the so‑called Numbers Graveyard, nearly six months after…
Palestinian rights groups warned of the rapidly worsening health of detainee Akram al‑Qawasmi, a Jerusalemite Palestinian political prisoner, held in the Israeli Gilboa prison. The Prisoners’ Information Office said al‑Qawasmi,…
Aida Touma‑Suleiman, a journalist and member of the Knesset for Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) since 2015, announced Tuesday that she and several human rights organizations have…
Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank earlier on Monday, breaking into numerous Palestinian homes, abducting at least 26 Palestinians, including several former political prisoners,…
Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, the Shin Bet, announced on Monday that it had arrested two young Palestinians from the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilia in northwestern West Bank, alleging…
The Israeli Knesset approved on Monday evening a law mandating the death penalty for Palestinian detainees convicted of killings classified by Israel as “acts of terrorism.” The bill passed its…
The Palestinian Detainees and Ex‑Detainees Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society announced on Saturday the death of imprisoned Palestinian journalist Marwan Fathi Hussein Herzallah, 54, from Nablus, inside Israel’s…
An Israeli judge has acknowledged that Waleed Ahmad, a Palestinian teenager who died in Israel’s Megiddo Prison in March 2025, was “likely starved” to death. Despite that admission, the judge…
The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate’s Freedoms Committee has documented a sharp escalation in Israel’s targeting of Palestinian journalists since the start of 2026, recording 22 abductions so far, including four female…
As the world is busy with the regional war Israel has ignited against Iran, the Israeli military court dropped charges against five soldiers for raping a Palestinian detainee at the…
Local sources have reported that thousands of Palestinian prisoners being held by Israel have been removed from cells and tortured this week, under the pretext of the Israeli-U.S. war with…
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 has concluded that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians since October 07, 2023, constitutes systematic…
Israeli occupation forces on Monday abducted dozens of Palestinians during invasions targeting multiple towns, villages, and refugee camps across the occupied West Bank, including Hebron, Qalqilia, Tulkarem, Nablus, and occupied…
A Palestinian detainee from the Gaza Strip died on Thursday after being held for 14 months in the “Negev” detention center in southern Israel. In a joint statement, the Palestinian…
Israeli occupation forces carried out a new wave of abductions across the occupied West Bank from Wednesday evening through Thursday morning, detaining 40 Palestinians, among them four women and a…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) warned on Monday that recent revelations by Israel’s Channel 13 about preparations and operational planning for implementing the so‑called “Detainee Execution Law” signal a clear…
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip said that the ongoing Israeli violations in the devastated coastal enclave have killed six Palestinians and caused several injuries. On Sunday evening, Israeli occupation…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that the number of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons has climbed to more than 9,300 as of the beginning of February 2026, a…
Mohammed Umer Khalid, 22, the last British ‘Palestine Action’ still on hunger strike, has now stopped drinking water, prompting doctors to warn he could die within days. Khalid, who has…
Three Palestinians, including two children, were killed by Israeli forces on Saturday, as Israel continues its illegal takeover of more than half of the land of the Gaza Strip and…
A report from DropSite News and Forensic Architecture has revealed that a U.S.-led military coordination body is advancing plans for a tightly controlled residential zone in Gaza under full Israeli…
The Israeli military continued its daily violations of the ceasefire agreement made in October 2025, killing 3 Palestinians and severely wounding 7, in separate attacks in several parts of the…
The Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex‑Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society confirmed on Sunday the death of detainee Hamza Abdullah Abdul‑Hadi Adwan, 67, from the Gaza Strip, noting…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said on Thursday that Israeli forces carried out a large‑scale campaign of abductions and field interrogations from Wednesday evening through Thursday morning, seizing at least…
A Palestinian detainee from the city of Rahat in the Negev, Hassan Issa al‑Qasha’la, 26, died on Thursday evening inside Israel’s Be’er Sheva prison, which is operated by the Israeli…
A joint human rights report released on Tuesday by the Commission of Detainees and Ex‑Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, and Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association revealed that…
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs has reported a series of alarming medical cases among prisoners held in Israel’s Ofer and Megiddo facilities, warning that systemic neglect continues…
December 27th, 2025 marks one year of imprisonment without charge for the famous Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya. He was kidnapped on 27 December 2024 after Israeli forces raided Kamal…
The Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex‑Detainees Affairs reported that Palestinians held in Ofer Prison and the Negev (Naqab) Prison are enduring extremely harsh humanitarian conditions, following a recent visit…
A British doctor says she was “strangled” by police officers at a protest outside a British prison demanding an ambulance for a critically ill Palestine Action-linked prisoner on hunger strike.…
The Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Prisoners’ Club reported the death of Palestinian hostage Sakhr Ahmad Za’oul (26 years old) from the town of Husan, west of Bethlehem, who had…
The Palestinian Civil Affairs Authority informed the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society of the death of detainee Abdul-Rahman Sofian Mohammad Sabatin, 21, from the…
Israeli occupation forces abducted dozens of Palestinians and detained many more during overnight invasions across several governorates in the occupied West Bank early Wednesday. In Nablus, in northern West Bank,…
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex‑Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society announced on Thursday the names of three detainees from the Gaza Strip who died in Israeli prisons…
On Thursday morning, the Israeli armed forces, along with armed paramilitary colonial settler gangs, assaulted Palestinian civilians in various parts of the occupied West Bank. The colonizers wounded five Palestinians,…
On Tuesday, Israeli forces detonated a Palestinian detainee’s home in the town of Zawata, west of Nablus in the northern West Bank and demolished a detainee’s home in the town…
Israeli forces carried out pre-dawn invasions throughout the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, as they have done every morning since the second intifada began in September 2000. In addition to…
Israeli forces launched a wide-scale invasion of various parts of the West Bank on Sunday morning, abducting 54 Palestinians and setting up additional checkpoints and roadblocks in several different areas.…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said Tuesday that Israeli occupation forces abducted at least 50 Palestinians overnight until Tuesday morning in widespread campaigns across the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem.…
The Israeli cabinet’s recent debate over a proposed death penalty law marks a sharp escalation in punitive measures against Palestinian political prisoners. For the first time, Shin Bet Director David Zini…
A report released this week by Physicians for Human Rights–Israel (PHRI) reveals that nearly 100 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli custody since October 7, 2023. The organization attributes this…
On Sunday, Israeli soldiers abducted five Palestinians, including a father and his son, near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Media sources said several Israeli military vehicles invaded Artas and…
Amnesty International | November 11, 2025 | In response to the passing of the first reading of a controversial new amendment to the Israeli Penal Law making it mandatory for…
The Israeli Knesset has advanced two bills authorizing the death penalty for Palestinian detainees accused of killing Israeli citizens under what the proposed law defines as “racist or hateful motives.”…
Israeli occupation authorities have been systematically torturing Palestinian detainees from Gaza since at least February 2024, according to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human…
Earlier on Monday, Israeli occupation forces abducted several Palestinians during invasions across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank, including Jericho in the northeast, Ramallah in the center, and Nablus…
Palestinian institutions confirmed Sunday the death of Palestinian political prisoner, Mohammad Hussein Mohammad Ghawadra, 63, from Jenin in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, while held in Israeli custody. The…
Medical sources in Gaza Strip hospitals reported receiving 30 bodies of Palestinians killed inside concentration camps run by Israeli forces, whose bodies had been retained by Israeli authorities. The bodies…
Israeli troops raided a number of Palestinians towns and cities in the West Bank on Friday before dawn. In Qalqilia, local sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces stormed the…
The Israeli army has handed over the bodies of 50 Palestinian victims it had held since the start of its genocide in Gaza on October 7, 2023. Medical sources said…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that Israeli occupation forces abducted at least 45 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. The PPS…
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs has sounded the alarm over the dire humanitarian and medical conditions endured by Palestinian political prisoners held in Israel’s Negev desert detention camp.…
The death of a Palestinian detainee from Gaza was announced, on Monday, one day after another detainee died inside an Israeli hospital. The General Authority of Civil Affairs, the Commission…
A sick Palestinian detainee died on Sunday in an Israeli hospital, after more than eight months of detention in Israeli occupation prisons. The General Authority of Civil Affairs, the Commission…
On October 13, 2025, Israel released 1,968 Palestinian political prisoners and detainees as part of a ceasefire agreement brokered by Egypt and Qatar. The deal, described by regional mediators as…
The Israeli occupation forces released, on Monday evening, the second batch of detainees from “Katziot” prison in the Negev to the Gaza Strip, as part of the first phase of…
Israeli forces carried out multiple invasions across the occupied West Bank on Monday, abducting at least nine Palestinians and shooting one, in Ramallah, occupied Jerusalem, and the Tulkarem governorate. In…
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, publicly reaffirmed their commitment to the prisoner exchange agreement with Israel, stating that their adherence remains conditional on Israel fulfilling its obligations.…
Israeli occupation forces launched a wave of invasions and abductions across the occupied West Bank early Monday, targeting Palestinian towns, refugee camps, and the homes of detainees’ families in a…
The first phase of the Gaza ceasefire, brokered jointly by Egypt, Qatar, and the United States, has begun, with prisoner exchanges underway and humanitarian conditions still catastrophic. A source directly…
Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad confirmed that the movement and allied factions in Gaza have finalized all logistical arrangements for the release of Israeli captives, but accused Israel of deliberately…
Israeli forces seriously wounded an elderly man near occupied Jerusalem, and stormed the homes of many Palestinian detainees set for release in the upcoming prisoner exchange in several West Bank…
A Palestinian administrative detainee died on Tuesday, in an Israeli hospital after being held in occupation prisons for 16 months. The Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian…
Two years into Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and its broader assault across Palestinian territories, prisoner advocacy institutions have released a detailed fact sheet exposing the scale of atrocities committed…
Israeli occupation forces invaded multiple areas across Ramallah and al-Bireh in the occupied West Bank’s central part early Tuesday, abducting at least eleven Palestinians and converting a mosque into a…
Israeli occupation forces launched a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank early Tuesday, targeting residential areas, refugee camps, and key roads with intensified military presence and the abduction…
In addition to killing 40 Palestinians in the ongoing genocide in Gaza on Saturday morning, Israeli forces also engaged in multiple attacks and invasions throughout the West Bank. A Palestinian…
Former Knesset member Haneen Zoabi was released Sunday evening following hours of interrogation by Israeli police in Tiberias. Her detention earlier that morning, which involved a pre-dawn invasion of her…
Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian youth and abducted another in a separate attack on Tuesday evening in Tulkarem, located in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank, following an…
A well-informed source disclosed to Sky News Arabia on Monday evening that Egyptian and Qatari mediators, with Turkish involvement, are preparing a new initiative aimed at presenting a viable proposal…
The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) have jointly condemned Israel’s escalating restrictions on legal teams monitoring the conditions of Palestinian political prisoners. These…
The Palestinian Civil Affairs Authority, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society have announced the death of Ahmad Sa’id Saleh Tazaz’a, a 20-year-old administrative detainee…
A joint report issued by the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association has revealed a serious escalation in…
On Wednesday, the Israeli occupation army continued its invasions and violations targeting various Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank, abducting and assaulting numerous Palestinians, in addition to demolishing structures…
On Tuesday at dawn, Israeli occupation forces invaded several areas across the occupied West Bank, breaking into homes, ransacking property, and abducting dozens of Palestinians. Update: The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) and the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs announced, Thursday, the death of detainee Samir Mohammad Youssef Ar-Refa’ey, 53, from the town of Rummana in…
Report from ‘The Cradle’ news agency: The condition of Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the director of north Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital who was abducted by Israeli forces at the end of…
On Saturday, July 5, Israeli forces continued their daily incursions into Palestinian towns, villages and rural areas, which have been happening every day in the West Bank since the beginning…
Palestinian political prisoners, including a significant number of minors, held in Israeli detention facilities, notably Megiddo Prison, face deliberate policies imposed by the Israel Prison Service that have led to…
A 22-year-old Palestinian man died, on Monday, in an Israeli hospital while in the custody of the Israeli prison system. This brings the number of detainees who have died in…
In a new report, three human rights organizations that advocate for the rights of Palestinians kidnapped and imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces detailed the horrific conditions and brutal torture carried…
On Wednesday, Israeli forces shot a Palestinian man in the town of Ya’bad, west of Jenin, in the northern West Bank, while occupation bulldozers continued to demolish citizens’ homes in…
On Wednesday, Israeli forces shot a Palestinian worker near Bethlehem, invaded Hebron city, and abducted three citizens in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank. WAFA…
Updated: At dawn on Wednesday, Israeli soldiers invaded and ransacked dozens of homes throughout the occupied West Bank, interrogating scores of residents and abducting at least 67 Palestinians. Media sources…
Israeli troops invaded a number of locations throughout the West Bank on Saturday, including Qalqilia, Nablus, Tulkarem, Al-Jalazoun and Salfit. Israeli occupation forces (IOF) abducted, at dawn on Saturday, three…
The Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) announced on Friday, the death of a Palestinian detainee in Israeli prison. In a statement, the PPS and…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported that Israeli occupation forces abducted around 150 Palestinian citizens, including children, women, and former detainees in several parts of the occupied West Bank, in…
The Israeli occupation forces continued their aggression on Tulkarem city and its camp for the 130th consecutive day, and on Nur Shams camp for the 117th day, amid a wide-scale…
Israeli forces abducted three Palestinians, including two brothers, on Friday, in the West Bank governorates of Ramallah and Hebron. Media sources said that occupation forces abducted the brothers, Khalil, 38,…
On Tuesday, Israeli forces abducted several Palestinians, including two young women in the West Bank governorates of Tulkarem, Nablus, Salfit, and Hebron. Media sources said that on Tuesday night, occupation…
Israeli forces injured two Palestinian children on Tuesday, one in Qalqilia and another in Jenin, in the northwestern and northern parts of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said that…
Earlier Thursday, Israeli soldiers abducted at least 25 Palestinians, including former political prisoners, from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said.…
Early Tuesday, Israeli soldiers invaded dozens of homes across the occupied West Bank, forcefully searching properties and abducting at least 15 Palestinians, including a father and his son, as well…
At dawn on Monday, Israeli forces invaded and ransacked dozens of homes across the occupied West Bank, including the occupied capital, Jerusalem, causing extensive damage and abducting numerous Palestinians, among…
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has published a 129-page report documenting the systematic use of torture and inhumane treatment of Palestinians from Gaza detained by Israel since 7…
“Sde Teiman, as anyone who was there knows, is a sadistic torture camp. Dozens of detainees entered alive and left in body bags. There are testimonies from guards, doctors, and…