Ramallah, 12 March 2026 – The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) condemns in the strongest possible terms the decision by Israeli Military Advocate General Itai
“The raids happen like this: they storm the rooms one by one, force us to lie face down, walk over us, tie our hands behind our backs, then drag us one by one to the yard while pulling our shoulders backward as they lift us from the ground, causing severe pain. Some prisoners suffered fractures. In one raid I was tied and lying on the ground; they told me to stand but I couldn’t, so they violently pulled me up by my shoulder from behind. The pain lasted for a long time […]
Beyond Accountability: A Legal Report on the Policy of Impunity in the Context of Crimes Committed Against Palestinian Prisoners.
The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council issued a position paper expressing its support and solidarity with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in the face of the ongoing campaign of incitement and defamation directed against her.
The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council issued a position paper expressing its support and solidarity with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in the face of the ongoing campaign of incitement and defamation directed against her.
* These figures are based on information provided by prisoners’ institutions and on what was announced by the Israeli occupation’s Prison Service up to February 2026.
* These figures are based on information provided by prisoners’ institutions and on what was announced by the Israeli occupation’s Prison Service up to February 2026.
* The number of Palestinian political prisoners and detainees held in Israeli occupation prisons exceeded 9,300 people, as of the start of February 2026.
* Among them are 56 female prisoners, including two girls.
* The number of imprisoned children stands at 350 children, held by the occupation in Megiddo and Ofer prisons.
The game consists of mimicking the arrival of a rocket hitting one’s home: someone dies, the other children pull the “corpse” out of the rubble and carry it away. A diplomat who has witnessed this scene several times during his travels to Gaza during the war, and who prefers to remain anonymous, says he has seen the same scene depicted in children’s drawings as well. His explanation is that young children reproduce in play the only reality they know. “They live surrounded by violence and death, and this is a way to normalize them”.
