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 nearly 49% of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are detained without charge or trial.
The annual report on the conditions of Palestinian political prisoners at the end of 2025 notes that the number of detainees in Israeli prisons has now exceeded 9,300, including 3,350 administrative detainees and 1,220 detainees classified by Israeli authorities as “unlawful combatants.” This designation—applied to detainees from the Gaza Strip—operates under a legal framework similar to administrative detention.
According to the report, administrative detention orders range from several months—renewable indefinitely—to many years, based on military orders grounded in secret files that neither the detainees nor their lawyers are permitted to review.
The rights organizations added that 2025 witnessed the continued implementation of systematic abuses against prisoners and detainees inside prisons and military camps, alongside the large‑scale Israeli assault across all Palestinian areas in the Gaza Strip—an escalation they described as an extension of the ongoing crime of genocide.
The report confirms that the number of prisoners who have died since the beginning of the genocide has surpassed 100, with the identities of 86 publicly confirmed, including 32 in 2025 alone.
Dozens of detainees from Gaza remain forcibly disappeared. This brings the total number of Palestinians who have died in Israeli custody since 1967 to 323.
The report also highlights Israel’s continued withholding of the bodies of 94 deceased prisoners, including 83 whose bodies have been held since the start of the assault on Gaza on October 7, 2023—an escalation in systematic executions that exceeds the total number of prisoner deaths recorded between 1967 and 1991.
The detainee population includes 49 women, as well as two girls, 16 women held under administrative detention, 24 mothers, and approximately 350 children under the age of 18.
