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.

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.

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.