Category: Prisoners

The following are updates from international human rights observers from the US and Europe who are in the West Bank right now: Content warning: torture 5/4/24 We’ve done a few…

from Middle East Eye Adnan al-Bursh, a Palestinian surgeon and professor of orthopaedic medicine, was killed by torture while in Israeli detention, according to a statement from the Palestinian Prisoners’…

Israeli forces invaded different parts of the West Bank on Tuesday in pre-dawn raids. In the northern West Bank, the Israeli occupation forces stormed Askar camp, east of Nablus. According…

On Sunday night into the pre-dawn hours of Monday morning, the Israeli occupation forces invaded Palestinian villages and towns in the Nablus district and Jenin district, bulldozing Palestinian homes and…

On Saturday, Israeli soldiers abducted at least twenty-one Palestinians, including a child, and attacked families, in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the…

Today, Tuesday April 23rd, 2024, marks 200 days of the Israeli invasion of Gaza. Over 15,000 children have been killed – they are among the more than 34,000 Palestinians who…

Dozens of Israelis, including some refuseniks, who have refused to serve in the Israeli military, as well as former Israeli soldiers who expressed regret at having taken part in the…

On Thursday evening, Israeli soldiers invaded the Ein Al-Sultan refugee camp, north of Jericho in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank and abducted a young man. The soldiers…

The Palestinian people in Palestine and the diaspora commemorate the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, April 17 of each year, after the day was adopted by the Palestinian National Council in the…

On Wednesday dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded and ransacked many homes across the occupied West Bank, abducted many Palestinians, and detonated two homes, leading to protests. The Palestinian Detainees’ Commission and…

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) has confirmed that the Israeli army abducted at least 100 Palestinian journalists in occupied Palestine since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza…

On Monday dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded and violently searched dozens of homes in Tulkarem and Jenin, in the West Bank, and abducted nine in Tulkarem governorate and one in Jenin.…

RAMALLAH, Saturday, April 13, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces detained more than 150 Palestinian workers within two weeks while they were looking for employment opportunities in historic Palestine, according…

QALQILIIA, Saturday, April 13, 2024 (WAFA) – A Palestinian father-of-seven died, Saturday evening, an Israeli detention center, , according to the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission (PAC) and the Palestine Prisoner’s Society…

Earlier Tuesday, Israeli soldiers abducted at least twenty Palestinians from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Society and the Palestinian…

RAMALLAH, Monday, April 6, 2024 (WAFA) –Israeli police today raided the funeral tent of the slain Palestinian prisoner Waleed Daqqa and his family’s home in the city of Baqa al-Gharbiya…

On Monday, Israeli soldiers invaded and searched dozens of homes across the occupied West Bank, interrogated scores of Palestinians, and abducted at least 45, in addition to confiscating an agricultural…

After 38 years in Israeli occupation prisons, Palestinian prisoner Waleed Daqqa has died due to years of medical neglect while in Israeli jails. Abu Daqqa was scheduled to be released…

On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers abducted at least thirty Palestinians, including a journalist, from several parts of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Detainee’s Committee and the Palestinian Prisoners Society said…

Israeli forces abducted at least ten Palestinians, on Sunday, including two women, in various regions of the occupied West Bank. In the northern West Bank, Israeli forces abducted, at dawn…

The Palestinian Detainees Committee has confirmed, Sunday, the death of a detainee from the Negev shortly after he was moved from the Eshil Israeli prison to an Israeli hospital. The…

RAMALLAH, Sunday, March 17, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces overnight and Sunday abducted at least 25 Palestinians from the West Bank, including a woman from Gaza, a child, and…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, March 14, 2024 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Authority stated today that 320 Palestinian detainees in the Israeli prison of Galboa are currently ‘living in a deadly…

On Thursday evening, Israeli forces abducted a Palestinian university student and detained five others near Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank. Media sources said that soldiers abducted the young…

The Israeli occupation forces abducted, at dawn on Thursday, 13 Palestinians from the city of Tubas and the town of Tammoun, south of Tubas, one Palestinian in Jenin, two brothers…

On Sunday dawn, Israeli soldiers abducted at least twelve Palestinians, including a female student from Nablus and former political prisoners, from several parts of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian…

Israeli forces abducted, on Sunday, twenty-one Palestinians, including a journalist, and assaulted others after storming their homes in several regions of the occupied West Bank. Qalqilia Before dawn on Sunday,…

Israeli authorities at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport have denied entry to a Swedish foreign national and Palestinian human rights defender arbitrarily citing “Public security or public safety or public…

The Palestinian Detainees Committee and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said Israeli soldiers abducted, Tuesday, at least thirty-two Palestinians, including children, from several parts of the occupied West Bank. They…

On Saturday, Israeli soldiers abducted many Palestinians from several parts of the occupied West Bank, during massive invasions and violent searches of homes and property. In Hebron, in the West…

Palestinian prisoners — nearly 7,000 of whom have been captured by Israeli troops since October 7th, 2023 — have presented evidence of widespread torture and starvation of the men, women…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) confirmed, Sunday, that the Israeli army exiled a Palestinian female journalist from the occupied West Bank to the devastated and destroyed Gaza Strip, after abducting…

On Thursday, the Palestinian Detainee’s Committee has confirmed the death of a detainee, held by Israel under Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial. The Committee said the young man,…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, February 7, 2024 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said today that the number of administrative detainees in Israeli occupation prisons reached 3,484 at the end of…

Various Palestinian committees that defend the rights of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons issued a joint report revealing that Israeli soldiers have abducted more than 6255 Palestinians from various…

By Al-Haq: Updated translation of a joint statement originally published in Arabic on 8 January 2024: According to our documentation, the IOF have killed 24 Palestinians since the beginning of 2024 in…

An Israeli military court issued a six-month Administrative Detention order against feminist Palestinian leader, lawyer, activist, and member of the Legislative Council Khalida Jarrar, holding her captive without charges or…

In addition to the massacres in Gaza Tuesday, Israeli forces invaded several parts of the West Bank, clashing with Palestinian youth in Jenin and destroying Palestinian homes and businesses using…

The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society published, on Thursday the names of fifty-one female prisoners from Gaza in the Israeli “Damoun” prison. The organizations…

The Israeli Prison Authority claimed it opened an investigation into the death of a Palestinian political prisoner who was assaulted and tortured by many Israeli soldiers and was left without…

At dawn Wednesday, a large Israeli army force stormed the village of Talfit, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, abducted 25 Palestinians and confiscated 15 vehicles. Soldiers…

On Monday dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded many parts of the occupied West Bank, including the occupied capital, Jerusalem, stormed and violently searched dozens of homes, causing damage, and abducted at…

RAMALLAH, Friday, December 1, 2023 (WAFA) – In the early hours of Friday, Israeli occupation authorities released 30 Palestinian prisoners, including 22 children and eight women. The release took place…

In the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian young man, Fadi Mu’ayyad Badran, 21, and injured four others in Betunia town west of Ramallah in…

On Saturday and Sunday, a total of 78 Palestinian detainees were released from Israeli occupation prisons as a part of the humanitarian truce between Israel and the Islamic resistance movement…

Israeli soldiers injured, on Sunday evening, at least twenty-one Palestinians who were gathered in front of Ofer prison in Beitunia town, west of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank,…

Israeli forces shot, on Saturday, eight Palestinians, including three children in various regions of the occupied West Bank, and abducted two of the wounded young men. On Saturday evening, Israeli…

Israeli soldiers injured, on Friday, at least thirty-one Palestinians who were gathered in front of Ofer prison in Beitunia town, west of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, awaiting…

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The Israeli army abducted, on Thursday, at least seventy-seven Palestinians and shot three, including a child, and assaulted others in several regions of the occupied West Bank. Jenin At dawn…

The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Committee has confirmed Saturday the death of another political prisoner in an Israeli prison, bringing the number of detainees who died in captivity since…

The death of a Palestinian detainee in Israeli prison, was announced, on Tuesday, the fifth detainee to die in occupation prisons since October 7, 2023. The Commission of Detainees and…

On Wednesday morning, Israeli soldiers detonated a Palestinian home in Shu’fat refugee camp, north of Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank. Many Israeli military vehicles and dozens of soldiers on…

RAMALLAH, Monday, November 6, 2023 (WAFA) -The Detainees Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) confirmed today that detainee Majed Ahmed Zaqoul, 32, one of the Gaza workers who…

A 25-year-old Palestinian detainee died, on Tuesday, in Israeli custody, the second detainee to die in less that 24 hours. According to a statement from the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS)…

A Palestinian administrative detainee died, on Monday, in an Israeli prison, after being in custody for two weeks. According to the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society,…

Israeli occupation forces abducted, on Saturday, at least 121 Palestinian citizens after invading their homes in many regions of the West Bank.

Israeli occupation forces abducted, on Friday, dozens of Palestinians, including children and former prisoners during a large-scale arrest campaign targeting the governorates of Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah/Al-Biereh, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron.…

Since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip on October 7, Palestinian detainees in occupation prisons are facing increasingly harsh conditions and inhumane treatment at the hands…

On Sunday dawn, Israeli soldiers abducted at least 58 Palestinians, including siblings and former political prisoners, from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said…

On Monday and Tuesday, Israeli police forced hundreds of Palestinian workers out of Israel and into the West Bank. The workers were among 21,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip who…

A massive assault by Palestinian resistance fighters infiltrating Israeli military bases around the outer edges of the besieged Gaza Strip led to the killing of between 30 and 70 Israelis…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinian political prisoners in Ramon prison during violent searches of section 5 of the detention facility. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that the…

On Thursday, the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee reported that the Israeli Prison Authority moved hunger-striking detainee Kayed Al-Fasfous from Asqalan Prison to the Ramla prison clinic after 57 days of strike.…

On Wednesday, Palestinian political prisoner Sultan Khallouf, 40, suspended a hunger strike he started 49 days ago, protesting being held under Administrative Detention orders without charges after a ruling for…

Two Palestinian detainees, held by Israeli under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial, are ongoing with hunger strike they started 45 days earlier, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS)…

On Friday, The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported that the Israeli occupation authorities have decided to release Khaled Al-Awawda, who held a hunger strike for 172 in 2022, protesting his…

Palestinian detainee Maher Al-Akhras, held by Israel without charges or trial, has suspended a hunger strike that lasted for 23 days, protesting his Administrative Detention without charges or trial. The…

Israeli occupation forces stormed, on Monday at dawn, the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and abducted two Palestinian young men, including a former prisoner, according to local sources. Media…

Ramallah 7-30-2023 WAFA – The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said today, Sunday, that minor prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers suffer from harsh and inhuman conditions of…

On Monday evening, Israeli soldiers abducted a Palestinian political prisoner shortly after his release from an Israeli prison after spending nine years in captivity and before he could spend any…