December 16, 2025

These figures are based on information from Palestinian prisoners’ institutions and the Israeli occupation’s prison service up to December 2025.

👉🏼There are some 9,300 Palestinian political prisoners and detainees in the Israeli occupation’s prisons, the majority of whom are held without trial or charge, or are awaiting trial and have not yet been charged. This figure does not include detainees held in military camps run by the Israeli occupation army.

👉🏼Only 1, 254 of them have so far been sentenced by the occupation's military system according to the prison services.
 
👉🏼Among them are 51 Palestinian female prisoners, including two minors, held in Damon prison.
 
👉🏼 350 of them are Palestinian children held in the occupation’s Ofer and Megiddo prisons.

👉🏼 Palestinians held without trial or charge: Some 4,570 people - or almost HALF of all detainees - including:
- At least 3,350 Palestinians arrested from the occupied West Bank classified as “administrative detainees”. 
- At least 1,220 Palestinians arrested from occupied Gaza classified as “unlawful combatants”. This figure does not include all detainees abducted from Gaza, held under this category, in military camps run by the Israeli occupation army. This category also includes Arab political detainees from Lebanon and Syria.

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