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.

Palestinian Prisoner Organizations: Israeli Knesset A Terrorist Institution; its Membership in International Parliaments and Unions Must be Terminated Immediately.