As of August 2025, 10,800 Palestinian political detainees and political prisoners languish in Israeli jails. Since 1967, 320 political prisoners have died inside Israeli prisons.
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Ramallah, occupied Palestine – At least 662 arrests were carried out by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank and Jerusalem during July alone, including 39 arrests among children and 12 among women, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association said today.
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Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation, prisons have been a central tool for oppressing Palestinians and attempting to break their will, serving as a means of systematic collective punishment. Over the decades, Israeli prisons and detention centers have not merely been places of incarceration, but arenas of systematic torture, both physical and psychological, and the denial of the most basic human rights.
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Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association strongly condemns the Israeli occupation forces’ interception of the “Handala” ship and the detention of international activists while sailing in international waters, during a humanitarian mission aimed at breaking the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip amidst the ongoing genocidal war against the Palestinian people.
After long years of prolonged arbitrary detention, the French authorities have finally released the political prisoner George Ibrahim Abdallah after more than 41 years in French prisons, one of the clearest and longest-standing cases of political arbitrary detention in contemporary Europe.
After long years of prolonged arbitrary detention, the French authorities have finally released the political prisoner George Ibrahim Abdallah after more than 41 years in French prisons, one of the clearest and longest-standing cases of political arbitrary detention in contemporary Europe.
The Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR), the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), and the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) urgently warn of the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian and health conditions in the Gaza Strip. The famine has now entered a new and critical stage, posing an imminent threat of mass death, unless the international community intervenes without delay.
