DaysofPal- Palestinian prisoners’ institutions confirmed that the past two years have been the bloodiest and most brutal period in the history of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, amid unprecedented Israeli escalation in torture, abuse, and systemic extermination policies targeting detainees.
Marking two years since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, the institutions released a fact sheet detailing the grim reality faced by thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
According to the report, as of early October 2025, more than 11,100 Palestinians are imprisoned by Israel, which is the highest number since the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000.
This figure excludes hundreds of detainees being held in military camps run by the Israeli army.
Among the total, 3,544 prisoners are held under administrative detention without charge or trial, the highest proportion ever recorded, while 2,673 detainees are classified as “unlawful combatants.”
This classification also includes Arab detainees from Lebanon and Syria, and many from Gaza held in military camps.
Before the war began, there were around 5,250 prisoners, including 40 women and 180 children, with about 1,320 administrative detainees.
The report revealed that 77 prisoners have died inside Israeli prisons since October 2023 as a result of torture, starvation, medical neglect, and inhumane conditions. Dozens more from Gaza remain under enforced disappearance.
Israeli occupation is also withholding the bodies of 85 prisoners who died in custody, 74 of whom were killed since the start of the war.
Since 1967, a total of 314 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli detention, according to rights groups.
The prisoners’ institutions asserted that what is happening inside Israeli prisons constitutes war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Reported violations include systematic torture, killings, starvation, deliberate spread of disease, denial of medical treatment, sexual assaults, including rape, and mass solitary confinement.
They described these practices as part of an ongoing policy of physical and psychological destruction aimed at eradicating the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, a continuation of Israel’s broader campaign of genocide.
Testimonies from recently released Gaza detainees have shed light on the extreme brutality practiced by Israeli forces, including severe physical and psychological torture, deliberate starvation, medical crimes, and sexual assaults.
At least 46 Gaza detainees have been confirmed dead, out of the 77 prisoners killed since the start of the war, while dozens more remain unaccounted for.
The Israeli occupation has established new detention camps and specialized prison sections to hold Gaza detainees, including the notorious Sde Teiman camp, now a symbol of torture and extrajudicial killings, and the underground Rakevet Section in Ramla Prison, known for enforced disappearances and systematic torture.
Most Gaza detainees are classified by the Israeli prison service as “unlawful combatants,” a legal framework widely condemned for legitimizing torture and indefinite detention.
The Prisoners’ Information Office described the situation as a “parallel war” being waged against Palestinian detainees inside Israeli prisons, characterized by deliberate starvation, medical neglect, isolation, and enforced disappearances, particularly targeting detainees from Gaza.
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