Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, and Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) have sent an urgent letter to Ms.

Addameer for Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association has been closely following the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli occupation prisons on Monday, 13 October 2025. As part of the first phase of the agreement to end the war on Gaza, 1,968 Palestinians were released, including 250 prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment or high sentences, and 1,718 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, among them two women and 15 children.

Ramallah, occupied Palestine - Two years since the start of the Israeli occupation’s escalating genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip, and the comprehensive aggression across historic Palestine, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and other prisoner institutions present a fact sheet on the issue and reality of political prisoners. This includes key data and figures as well as an overview of the horrific conditions in the Israeli occupation’s prisons which constitute one aspect of the genocide, whereby Palestinian political detainees are being subject to unprece

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.