RAMALLAH, May 21, 2025 (WAFA) – From yesterday evening until Wednesday morning, the Israeli occupation forces detained at least 20 citizens from the West Bank, including three women, in addition to released prisoners. The Palestinian Detainees’ Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a joint statement that the occupation forces are continuing detaining Palestinians and […]

Statement by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and Addameer for Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association Ramallah, occupied Palestine – There are unprecedented systematic attempts and threats by the Israeli occupation’s prison authorities to kill several incarcerated Palestinian political leaders who are being held in solitary confinement, through torture, severe physical assault, and […]

Hamas has proposed releasing more hostages under a new Gaza ceasefire deal, after new negotiations were held on Saturday. The talks began hours after Israel’s military launched a major new offensive in the Gaza Strip. Hamas has agreed to release nine hostages in exchange for a 60-day truce and Israel releasing Palestinian prisoners, a Palestinian […]

Israel’s military has released a dozen Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip, in the latest such move to make room for the thousands of Palestinians churned through the occupation’s detention system. According to witnesses cited by Palestinian media outlets, Israeli occupation forces released 12 Palestinian detainees – including two women – yesterday, handing them over […]

For every Palestinian Israel freed in the ceasefire deal, it apprehended 15 more. The number of political prisoners in its jails has doubled since the war began. On April 17 every year, Palestinian Prisoner’s Day is commemorated to highlight the plight of those held in Israeli jails and their struggle for freedom against Israel’s continued occupation of […]

After spending 45 years in Israeli custody, the ‘dean’ of Palestinian prisoners tastes freedom again Nael Barghouti, the world’s longest-serving political prisoner and the “dean” of Palestinian detainees, has been freed from an Israeli jail after spending nearly two-thirds of his life behind bars. The 67-year-old was released on Thursday as part of the prisoner exchange deal between Israel and […]

Israel’s Relentless Cycle: Prisoner Exchanges and Continuing Conflict is taking a heavy toll of human life of Palestinians and Israelis in continued war between Israel and Hamas. During the 7 October, 2023 attack by Hamas, 1195 Israelis were killed and 251 taken as hostages. There was worldwide condemnation of the ‘terrorist’ attack carried out by […]

Three Palestinian prisoners’ rights groups have shed light on the dire conditions that female Palestinians are enduring in Israeli prisons and detention centers, stating that the Tel Aviv regime is holding over a dozen Palestinian mothers behind bars. In a joint statement on the occasion of the Arab Mother’s Day, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS), the […]

At least 404 Palestinians have been killed and 562 wounded as Israel launched a massive assault on Gaza, shattering the fragile two-month-old ceasefire with Hamas. Tuesday’s attack took place across Gaza, including in Khan Younis and Rafah in southern Gaza, Gaza City in the north, and central areas like Deir el-Balah. Many of those killed in […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel unleashed a new wave of strikes on Gaza, ending a break in fighting during which 33 Israeli hostages were returned in return for the release of nearly 1,800 Palestinian prisoners. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered the strikes because of a lack of progress in talks to extend the ceasefire, while Defense […]