A new investigation finds that only a quarter of Palestinian detainees in Israel are linked to fighting groups. Israeli military intelligence believes that only a quarter of the Palestinian detainees from Gaza held by Israel are fighters, according to a joint investigation released on Thursday by the Israeli-Palestinian magazine +972, the Hebrew-language magazine Local Call, […]
José Manuel Aznar works as a legal consultant in Spain. He holds an LL.M in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from the Geneva Academy. On Wednesday 20, August 2025, the Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir shared through his telegram channel a video portraying himself in front of a poster showing the destruction […]
On 18 March 2025, a hostage-ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, a designated terrorist organisation in the UK, ended and armed conflict resumed in Gaza. This briefing provides information on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) since the ending of the agreement, and the UK and international response. It also details […]
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. It was astonishing to read about the death of Ahmad Saeed Tazazaa (20 years old) on August 3, 2025 inside Israel’s Magiddo prison. Just months earlier, reports emerged that Israeli forces had […]
RAMALLAH, August 10, 2025 (WAFA) – Palestinian Prisoners’ institutions reported that 662 Palestinians, including 39 children and 12 women, were detained by the israeli occupation in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, during July 2025. The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), and Al Dameer Association for Human Rights stated in a […]
The number of Palestinian arrests in the West Bank and occupied Al-Quds from October 7, 2023 to the end of June 2025 reached 23,285. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians noted an increase of up to 200 detainees above the monthly average prior to October 7, 2023. It is […]
JERUSALEM, June 30, 2025 (WAFA) – The Israeli-controlled municipality in occupied Jerusalem delivered a demolition order on Monday to the family of Palestinian prisoner Aziz Abu Ramouz, targeting their home in the town of Silwan, under the pretext of “building without a permit.” The home salted for demolition, which has stood for several years, shelters a grieving […]
Another Palestinian prisoner has died in Israeli detention, reportedly raising to 73 the number of deaths in prison since October 7, 2023. Louay Faisal Nasrallah, 22, from Jenin, was transferred to Soroka hospital from the Negev Prison, where he died on Monday, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. he agency cited the Civil Affairs […]
On February 22, 2024, ACRI, Physicians for Human Rights, HaMoked and Gisha petitioned the High Court of Justice (Hebrew) demanding that Red Cross representatives be allowed to visit Palestinian prisoners and detainees from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank held in the custody of the army and the Israel Prison Service, and to provide the Red […]
(WASHINGTON, D.C., JUNE 18, 2025)—Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Norway, Australia, and the United States should impose “Global Magnitsky” style sanctions on four Israeli officials for their roles in severe abuses and grave human rights violations against Palestinians in Israeli prisons since October 7, 2023, including torture, starvation, and sexual violence, DAWN said in a 18-page […]
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