"With the martyrdom of detainee Musab Haniya, the number of martyrs of the prisoner movement inside the occupation’s prisons since October of last year has reached 59, raising the total number of known martyrs of the prisoner movement since 1967 to 296. It is worth noting that there are dozens of martyrs among Gaza detainees who are victims of the crime of enforced disappearance."

February 24, 2025

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Report: New testimonies of Palestinian political detainees arrested from Gaza reveal severe abuses

Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) & the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs
February 12, 2025

Ramallah, Palestine - It has been 1.5 years since the genocide in occupied Gaza. Systematic crimes against Palestinian political prisoners continue unabated. The testimonies of Palestinian detainees arrested from Gaza continue to reveal the horrors perpetrated by the occupation, particularly during arrest and transfer of detainees to Israeli central prisons and military detention camps.

This new report is based on lawyers’ visits that took place in February 2025 to 18 Palestinian political prisoners being held at the Naqab Prison and the Sde Teiman military camp, which have become infamous for the abuses that take place there. It is also based on the dozens of testimonies lawyers’ and prisoners’ institutions gathered over the past several months. The most prominent crimes committed were torture, severe beatings, starvation and humiliation in all its forms. One of the detainees sustained broken bones as a result of being beaten while shackled, and he remained for a long period of time without treatment. Authorities continued to shackle him even after his severe injury.

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Occupation reveals martyrdom of Palestinian detainee seven weeks late
24/2/2025

Ramallah, Palestine – Israeli occupation authorities have disclosed the martyrdom of Palestinian political detainee Mus’ab Haniyeh, 35, in response to a legal request for information by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) about the man’s fate.

Haniyeh was killed on January 5, 2025, in Israeli custody. He had been arrested from Hamad city in the Gaza Strip 10 months prior, on March 3, 2024, in good health. He was a husband and father to a nine-year-old boy. The occupation refuses to divulge the manner in which Haniyeh was killed, or even where he was being held.

Haniyeh is the latest Palestinian to be killed in the occupation’s prisons and military camps in obscure ways that the Israeli army continues to conceal. With Haniyeh, there have been 59 identified Palestinian political detainees who have been killed in custody since the start of the genocide in October 2023, at least 38 of them arrested from Gaza. Dozens more have been killed with the occupation refusing to reveal their fate or identities, leaving countless families in fear and psychological torture. The total number of identified martyred detainees since the occupation of 1967 is 296 people. The rate of killings in prisons and military camps is the highest historically.

The occupation army only responds sporadically and arbitrarily to legal requests for information, and often uses the pretext of an ‘ongoing investigation’ to evade accountability, and to torture Palestinians both physically and mentally as a matter of policy. The Israeli army is the only official side able to reveal the fate of martyred Palestinian detainees since there is no evidence of their killing with the army continuing to withhold their bodies.

The Commission and the PPS stress that the rate of Palestinian detainees losing their lives is unprecedented and will only increase with time. Thousands of Palestinians are held behind bars undergoing a myriad of severe violations including torture, starvation, sexual assault, deprivation of medical treatment, unsanitary conditions leading grave and infectious diseases. The international community must act now to save the lives of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli custody.

Commission of Detainees' Affairs & Palestinian Prisoners' Society

Escalated actions against 13 female detainees held in Damoun prison

■ Palestinian prisoners’ institutions: 580 cases of arrests in the occupied West Bank during January 2025 alone

Briefing paper prepared by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.
February 10, 2025
Ramallah, Palestine - In January, Israeli occupation forces carried out approximately 580 arrests in the West Bank, with the highest number of arrests recorded in Jenin and its refugee camp, which have been under an unprecedented aggression for the past 21 days.
There were 17 cases of arrest among women overall in January, and 60 cases of arrest of children below 18 years of age. Meanwhile, hundreds of Palestinians have been detained during field interrogations.
It was announced (by occupation authorities) in January 2025 that four identified Palestinian political prisoners had been killed in the Israeli occupation’s custody. Two of them were from Gaza and had been martyred months prior to the occupation’s admittance.
By the start of the ceasefire on January 19, 2025, the number of cases of arrests in the West Bank since the start of the genocide, reached 14,500. This figure does not include the number of arrests from Gaza, which are estimated to be in the thousands.
*Figures include those who remain in the occupation’s custody and those who were later released.

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Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club

House demolition is a collective punitive measure against detainees and their relatives

February 19, 2025

The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club stated that the so-called Israeli supreme court has rejected a petition submitted by the family of detainee Hayel Daifullah, against the demolition order for their home. The order was issued by the Israeli military commander under the so-called "Mandate Emergency Regulations," which grant Israeli authorities the power to demolish the homes of Palestinian detainees accused of carrying out operations against Israeli forces, under the pretext of "deterrence."

The Commission and the Palestinian Society Prisoners’ Club emphasized that the policy of demolishing detainees' homes constitutes collective punishment, violating international law.
This policy is exclusively applied to Palestinians while Israeli settlers are exempted, in a blatant violation of Article 3 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Lawyers from the Commission and the Prisoners’ Club stated that the court rejected the family's request to limit the demolition to the room of detainee Hayel, who is accused of carrying out an aggressive attack against Israeli soldiers on Route 60, despite the fact that his family members had no connection to the incident.

The court also dismissed the family's plea to preserve the ceiling of the house, which contains support columns for a planned second floor intended for the detainee's son after his marriage, as demolishing the ceiling would cause significant damage to the young man and the family.
According to the court’s decision, the family has until February 26, 2025, to evacuate the home before its demolition.
In a related context, lawyers from the Commission and the Prisoners’ Club reported that Israeli authorities retracted their decision to demolish an entire apartment belonging to the family of detainee Ahmed Al-Haimouni from Hebron.
The family had previously been informed of the intention to demolish an entire floor that included both Al-Haimouni’s apartment and his uncle’s. However, following the family's objection to the demolition of the uncle’s apartment—given that the detainee had no connection to that part of the house—the court approved the exclusion of the uncle’s apartment from demolition.

The decision was based on an architectural plan attached to the demolition notice, which clearly showed that the shared wall between the two apartments lacked any doors, proving that the units were separate with distinct entrances. Nevertheless, the court upheld the decision to demolish Al-Haimouni’s family apartment, which is set to be destroyed by an explosion.

Israeli occupation responsible for lives of Palestinian detainees in Ofer Prison

Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS)
16/2/25

Ramallah, Palestine – Following a large-scale assault on Palestinian political prisoners held in Israel’s notorious Ofer Prison, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) hold the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the lives of the thousands of detainees held there.

The occupation’s prison administration said in a statement moments ago that their prison special repression units raided the cells of Palestinian detainees in Ofer, claiming that the detainees “disrupted” a “military tour of the prison” (from inside their cells). Such raids are known to be violent, oppressive and humiliating for the detainees.

The Commission and the PPS appeal to the mediators to put the issue of the severe crimes taking place against Palestinian prisoners, on the negotiating table. The systematic killing, torture, medical negligence, enforced starvation, severe beatings and the many other crimes being committed must be stopped. Since the genocide in Gaza in October 2023, at least 58 Palestinian political prisoners have been killed by Israeli prison guards.

We direct an urgent appeal to the international human rights system to fulfill the responsibilities for which it was created in the first place.

There are more than 10,000 Palestinians still held in the occupation’s custody. This figure does not include all those arrested from Gaza and have been forcibly disappeared.

Detainee Omar Abu Libdah suffers from severe detention conditions in Megiddo prison