Amidst the ongoing genocide in the occupied Palestinian Territory, over 190 civil society groups and human rights advocates have signed this joint statement to express our unequivocal denunciation of the World Bank's role as the limited Trustee for the BoP-associated Financial Intermediary Fund (FIF) for Gaza Reconstruction and Development (GRAD) and as a member of executive board of the Board of Peace (BoP).

Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 2026 comes at a time when Palestinian political detainees face the harshest levels of torture, abuse, and extermination in the history of the Israeli occupation. It comes at a time when the occupation’s parliament voted in favor of a horrific law to execute Palestinian prisoners – to make their murder legal.

For 52 years, April 17 has stood as a defining moment in Palestinian national consciousness. Palestinian Prisoners’ Day is not merely commemorative—it is a unifying act of struggle rooted in a long history of resistance to violent settler-colonialism. It reaffirms our political prisoners as the vanguard of the fight for freedom and dignity.

April 2026 Update on Numbers of Palestinian Political Detainees in Israeli Occupation’s Prisons

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

Today, Addameer for Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, The Commission of Detainees Affairs, and Palestinian Prisoners Club sent an urgent letter to European Union countries regarding Israel’s recently passed death penalty law targeting Palestinian prisoners.