Statement issued by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club on the escalation in the administrative detention crime

October 30, 2024

The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club stated that the crime of administrative detention is increasing unprecedentedly, as 9500 orders of administrative detention have been issued since the beginning of genocide. There are currently (3398) male administrative detainees held in Israeli prisons, (30) women and (90) minors, including a 14-year old child, Ammar Kareem.

The great changes on the number of administrative detainees are linked to the level of detention campaigns carried out in the West Bank and Jerusalem, as more than 11.500 arrest cases have been recorded.
The Commission and the Society followed up with the crimes accompanied to administrative detention, such as assassination attempts.
The Commission and the Society explained that the category of administrative detainees indicated the extreme nature of these arrests, aimed solely at undermining any active social, political, or intellectual roles, which serve to impose further control and surveillance over the citizens. This is evident in the administrative detention of students, journalists, activists, and human rights defenders. Additionally, they arrest and target former prisoners, who constitute the majority of administrative detainees.
The Commission noted that recently, occupation intelligence services have intensified the transfer of some detainees, whose sentences had ended, to administrative detention. Administrative detention orders have also been issued against detainees released on financial bail or with specific conditions, or even without conditions.

In this context, the commission and the society reviewed significant information about following up administrative detainees in military courts, where they proved that the military courts constitute a fundamental tool to reinforce the occupation’s crimes. When the settlers government came into power, the military courts fallen into the hands of settlers groups.
We affirm that pursuing cases in the occupation’s courts, especially regarding administrative detention, is futile and has granted (legitimacy) to these unjust courts.
Despite this, based on the detainees’ desire amidst the unprecedented torture, abuse, and crimes they endure, and the wish of their families, we have continued to monitor their cases to maintain the link between lawyer and detainee despite the severe restrictions imposed by the Israeli prison administration.
Based on all given information and data, we stress on the firm position of human rights organizations to take necessary actions to gradually boycott the courts of the occupation, especially in the case of administrative detention, as it has national and strategic implications on the fate of detainees’ cause, and we are looking forward for taking this significant step.
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🔴 The Israeli repressive forces commits new crime against the leader detainee Marwan Barghouthi and his comrades in the isolation of Megiddo prison

🔴 The repetitive assault against the leaders and symbols of the Captive Movement is a real attempts of assassination

October 28, 2024

The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club stated that the repressive forces subordinate to the Israeli prison service had committed a new crime against the leader detainee Marwan Barghouthi, member in the Central Committee of Fatah Movement, and his comrades isolated in the cells of Megiddo prison. The crime is represented in subjecting him to brutal attack on September 9, 2024, which led to several injuries in his body, specifically the upper part of his body.

Based on the information recounted by the commission’s advocate, the beating was focused on the head, ears, ribs and limbs, causing a bleeding in his right ear, injury in the right arm and severe pains in the tibs, chest and back. He had infections in his ear and difficulty in his movement, due to the deliberate medical neglect.

🔴 Brief on detention campaigns carried out in the West Bank since the beginning of the genocide

🔴 Excluding arrest cases in Gaza

The total number of arrests stands at (11.300) in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

Women: the total number of women arrests stands at (425) including women arrested from the lands occupied in 1948, in addition to Gazan women who have been arrested in the West Bank.
. Children: the number of children arrests stands at (745)
. Journalists: (112) journalists have been arrested, (59) of them are still under arrest, including (6) female journalists and (22) journalists from Gaza, in addition to (16) journalists under the administrative detention.

More than (9392) orders of administrative detention have been issued since October 7, ranging between new orders and renewals, including orders against children and women.

Detention campaigns carried out since October 7 are accompanied by escalated crimes and violations such as humiliation, brutal beat, threats against detainees and their families, besides to vandalism and destruction in detainees’ houses, confiscating vehicles, gold and money, in addition to the destruction of infrastructure especially in the refugee camps of Tulkarem and Jenin.

Statistics include detainees who were arrested from their houses, on checkpoints, who surrendered themselves and those who were arrested as hostages.

Besides to detention campaigns, the Israeli forces implemented field executions, afflicted detainees and their family members.

The highest record of arrest cases was in Hebron and Jerusalem

🔴 (41) detainees martyred in Israeli prisons and military camps since the 7th of October, in addition to tens martyrs from Gaza who died in Israeli prisons and detention centers, whom the occupation has not announced their names or martyrdom conditions. Moreover, they acknowledged the execution of many detainees.

The remains of (39) detainees who martyred after October 7 are still withheld, among (50) martyrs.

Data exclude detention cases of Gaza, due to the occupation’s refusal to give any information and the continuation of practicing the crime of enforced disappearance against them. It is worth mentioning that the occupation forces arrested about (4500) citizens from Gaza, in addition to hundreds Gazans who have been arrested in the West Bank.

🔴 Total number of detainees held in Israeli prisons until October 2024

The total number of detainees held in Israeli prisons stands at(10100), including (3398) administrative detainees, in addition to (1618) detainees who have been classified as illegal fighters.

.(97) female detainees are held in Damoun prison, including (3) detainees from Gaza, in addition to (27) administrative detainees. These figures exclude women detainees from Gaza, as there might be detainees held in military camps and facilities of the occupation.

. (270) children are currently held in isolation prisons

Before October 7: the total number of detainees held in Israeli prisons was (5250), including (40) women, (170) children and (1320) administrative detainees.

Note: data on detention campaigns is variable on a daily basis due to the continuous arrests

Detainees’ Institutions ( Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club, Addameer Association for Human Rights )

The plight of detainees held at Negev prison is increasing since October 2023

October 29, 2024

The advocate of the Commission stated, after managing a visit to Negev prison in 27/10/2024, that the general condition is still difficult at all levels, as there is no improvement in the quality and quantity of food, and detainees have summer clothes that don’t fit to this cold weather.
In addition, all detainees are infected with scabies and don’t receive any medical treatment, and deprived of personal hygiene and bathing supplies, which led to the deterioration of their health conditions.

Detainee Maher Qadi, 54, from Bitonia/ Ramallah, confirmed this stating: “ detainees are suffering from scabies, as one acne on the body deprives the detainee from sleeping due to severe itching.
Qadi has diabetes, heart problems and high lipids, where he suffers from dizziness. However, the administration of prison does not provide the appropriate treatment and deprives him of making medical examinations. He only receives blood thinners.”
He added: “special forces stormed the room in 7/10/2024, started to beat us and tore the sole clothes we have. I got severe pain in the abdomen due to beating.”

It is worth mentioning that Qadi is married and a father of one son and three daughters. He was arrested in 20/3/2024 and sentenced to administrative detention.

🔴 Brief on detention campaigns carried out in the West Bank since the beginning of the genocide

🔴 Excluding arrest cases in Gaza

The total number of arrests stands at (11.400) in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

Women: the total number of women arrests stands at (430) including women arrested from the lands occupied in 1948, in addition to Gazan women who have been arrested in the West Bank.
. Children: the number of children arrests stands at (750)
. Journalists: (129) journalists have been arrested, (58) of them are still under arrest, including (6) female journalists and (29) journalists from Gaza.

More than (9392) orders of administrative detention have been issued since October 7, ranging between new orders and renewals, including orders against children and women.

Detention campaigns carried out since October 7 are accompanied by escalated crimes and violations such as humiliation, brutal beat, threats against detainees and their families, besides to vandalism and destruction in detainees’ houses, confiscating vehicles, gold and money, in addition to the destruction of infrastructure especially in the refugee camps of Tulkarem and Jenin.

Statistics include detainees who were arrested from their houses, on checkpoints, who surrendered themselves and those who were arrested as hostages.

Besides to detention campaigns, the Israeli forces implemented field executions, afflicted detainees and their family members.

The highest record of arrest cases was in Hebron and Jerusalem

🔴 (41) detainees martyred in Israeli prisons and military camps since the 7th of October, in addition to tens martyrs from Gaza who died in Israeli prisons and detention centers, whom the occupation has not announced their names or martyrdom conditions. Moreover, they acknowledged the execution of many detainees.

The remains of (39) detainees who martyred after October 7 are still withheld, among (50) martyrs.

Data exclude detention cases of Gaza, due to the occupation’s refusal to give any information and the continuation of practicing the crime of enforced disappearance against them. It is worth mentioning that the occupation forces arrested about (4500) citizens from Gaza, in addition to hundreds Gazans who have been arrested in the West Bank.

🔴 Total number of detainees held in Israeli prisons until October 2024

The total number of detainees held in Israeli prisons stands at(10100), including (3398) administrative detainees, in addition to (1618) detainees who have been classified as illegal fighters.

.(94) female detainees are held in Damoun prison, including (3) detainees from Gaza, in addition to (29) administrative detainees. These figures exclude women detainees from Gaza, as there might be detainees held in military camps and facilities of the occupation.

. (270) children are currently held in isolation prisons

Before October 7: the total number of detainees held in Israeli prisons was (5250), including (40) women, (170) children and (1320) administrative detainees.

Note: data on detention campaigns is variable on a daily basis due to the continuous arrests

Detainees’ Institutions ( Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club, Addameer Association for Human Rights )

Minor detainees held in Megiddo prison are living inhumane conditions

October 8, 2024

The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs stated that the Israeli occupation forces still escalating in detaining children, imposing inhumane and abusive measures on them.
The commission confirmed that the measures and penalties imposed on adults also are applied to children since October 7, 2023.
Children detainees are held in cells, isolated from the outside world, deprived of family visits, and exposed to the policy of starvation.
The commission called on international human rights organizations to take their responsibility towards the violations committed against Palestinian children, who are subjected to horrific crimes.
It is worth mentioning that (250) children are currently held in Megiddo and Ofer prisons.

🔴 Brief on detention campaigns carried out in the West Bank since the beginning of the genocide

🔴 Excluding arrest cases in Gaza

The total number of arrests stands at (11.500) in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

Women: the total number of women arrests stands at (430) including women arrested from the lands occupied in 1948, in addition to Gazan women who have been arrested in the West Bank.
. Children: the number of children arrests stands at (750)
. Journalists: (132) journalists have been arrested, (59) of them are still under arrest, including (6) female journalists and (31) journalists from Gaza.

More than (9392) orders of administrative detention have been issued since October 7, ranging between new orders and renewals, including orders against children and women.

Detention campaigns carried out since October 7 are accompanied by escalated crimes and violations such as humiliation, brutal beat, threats against detainees and their families, besides to vandalism and destruction in detainees’ houses, confiscating vehicles, gold and money, in addition to the destruction of infrastructure especially in the refugee camps of Tulkarem and Jenin.

Statistics include detainees who were arrested from their houses, on checkpoints, who surrendered themselves and those who were arrested as hostages.

Besides to detention campaigns, the Israeli forces implemented field executions, afflicted detainees and their family members.

The highest record of arrest cases was in Hebron and Jerusalem

🔴 (41) detainees martyred in Israeli prisons and military camps since the 7th of October, in addition to (24) martyrs from Gaza who died in Israeli prisons and detention centers, whom the occupation has not announced their names or martyrdom conditions. Moreover, they acknowledged the execution of many detainees.

The remains of (39) detainees who martyred after October 7 are still withheld, among (50) martyrs.

Data exclude detention cases of Gaza, due to the occupation’s refusal to give any information and the continuation of practicing the crime of enforced disappearance against them. It is worth mentioning that the occupation forces arrested about (4500) citizens from Gaza, in addition to hundreds Gazans who have been arrested in the West Bank.

🔴 Total number of detainees held in Israeli prisons until October 2024

The total number of detainees held in Israeli prisons stands at(10100), including (3398) administrative detainees, in addition to (1618) detainees who have been classified as illegal fighters.

.(94) female detainees are held in Damoun prison, including (3) detainees from Gaza, in addition to (29) administrative detainees. These figures exclude women detainees from Gaza, as there might be detainees held in military camps and facilities of the occupation.

. (270) children are currently held in isolation prisons

Before October 7: the total number of detainees held in Israeli prisons was (5250), including (40) women, (170) children and (1320) administrative detainees.

Note: data on detention campaigns is variable on a daily basis due to the continuous arrests

Detainees’ Institutions ( Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club, Addameer Association for Human Rights )

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Fact sheet

Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons after October 7, 2023

October 6, 2024

Since occupying Palestine in June 4, 1967, detention operations have constituted one of the most prominent policies pursued against Palestinians. More than one million detention cases of Palestinians have been recorded, including all categories of the Palestinian society of women, children, elderly, academics, journalists, political and social activists and strugglers, who look for the freedom of nation, land and humans.

The occupying state has not shown, at any stage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, any concern for the rules of the international legal system, or the international treaties, laws and agreements. However, Israel tried to consolidate more systematic crimes, relying on racist laws and legislations that violate the core of human rights, thereby it obviously violated all international resolutions. This has not been limited to any particular stage, as the successive Israeli governments have pursued and developed more measures to impose higher levels of control and supervision over Palestinians through the apartheid system. These methods have affected all aspects of the Palestinian life, where the cause of Palestinian detainees has constituted the most prominent issues reflecting the extent of systematic violations and crimes that the occupying state has entrenched through its prison’s system.

The occupying state has used the cause of Palestinian detainees for decades as a central tool in its internal political conflicts, through systematic competitions to impose more crimes and restrictions against Palestinians. This was evident in the Israeli election campaigns, as well as during wars and political upheavals.  The incitement for revenge against the detainees intensifies to gain supporters and increase votes.

The occupation army carries out arbitrary arrest operations on a daily basis across the occupied Palestinian territories in a brutal manner, as these arrests have turned into a part of the Palestinian life. Detention operations commence by identifying the targeted house, storming it, and exploding its doors, often in the midnight to intimidate everyone inside, using all means of violence, including intensive beatings, assaults, and forcing the family to gather in a specific place in the house. Then, inspections, vandalism and destruction of property are carried out in a provocative and vengeful manner for several hours.

The detainee is then transported in a military vehicle to the army camps and then to detention and interrogation centers, then transferred to one of the central prisons. Afterwards, show trials begin, based on racist military orders and laws aiming at conquering and punishing Palestinians.

Throughout these stages, detainees are exposed to all forms of torture, mistreatment, and humiliation, turning their arrest into a multi-layered crime that violates international legal and human rights standards.

Over decades of struggle by Palestinian detainees to regain their legitimate rights and confront the attempts of deprivation, they were able to impose a special regime and detention conditions, through several steps of struggle, in which many detainees were martyred. Their struggle was represented in open hunger strikes, as detainees became able to gain the minimum of their rights, which enabled them to overcome the racist rules and regulations of the occupation.

As we previously mentioned, everything achieved by detainees had a heavy price, starting from pens, newspaper, magazines, TVS, radios, education, medical treatment, cooking inside rooms, breaks, canteens, families and lawyers visits and many other simple rights.

After October 7, 2023, the prison’s administration began operations of systematic and collective torture conducted by Special Forces subordinate to the IPS, who deprived detainees of their simplest rights. In coincidence with the war on Gaza, the IPS launched a parallel war inside the Israeli prisons, headed by the extremist Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, and the government of settlers who lead Israel nowadays. This war is represented in storming prison’s rooms and sections, turning them into cells, practicing assault and humiliation, confiscating detainees’ belongings, such as clothes and blankets. Each detainee only has a thin blanket, a thin cover and the clothes he wears on.

Moreover, the IPS has closed the canteen and canceled the break.

Attacks and assaults included severe beating, led to fractures in the limbs and the chest, and the corridors were full of blood. As a result, 40 detainees were martyred, whom identities are known, where the occupation’s media has announced the martyrdom of tens of detainees from Gaza.

Retaliatory policies have been imposed on detainees, including war crimes, such as torture, enforced disappearance, starvation, deprivation of treatment and medication, canceling family visits, canceling lawyers' visits, in addition to the overcrowding in prisons due to the increasing daily arrests. Indeed, the prisons were turned into places of torture.

It is important to highlight the seriousness of changes that affected the cause of detainees through digital transformations. By the end of last October, the total number of detainees held in Israeli prisons was (5250), including (40) women, (170) children, (700) sick detainees and (1320) under the administrative detention, which is a precautionary detention, without charges or trials.

Since that time, especially after October 2023, changes have been imposed on the cause of detainees and detention cases, as data began to accelerate due to the daily arrests.

(10100) Palestinian detainees are currently held in Israeli prisons, including (3398) detainees under the administrative detention, making it the highest number of administrative detainees in the history of the Captive Movement since the first uprising, in addition to (95) women and (270) children.

(11.100) arrest cases have been recorded in the West Bank and Jerusalem, including (420) arrests cases for women and (740) cases for children. Furthermore, (9000) orders of administrative detention have been issued, in addition to arresting thousands of detainees from Gaza Strip. However, the exact number of detainees from Gaza cannot be determined due to the policy of enforced disappearance imposed on them by the Israeli occupation authorities. It is worth mentioning that the majority of detainees from Gaza were classified as illegal fighters, which is another form of administrative detention applied in the West Bank.

During the past few months, we were able to document hundreds of testimonies from released detainees, and other detainees who were visited by our legal teams. These testimonies carried shocking and horrifying facts, that revealed torture, severe beating and rape  by soldiers and police dogs, in addition to the methods they pursued in using the detainees’ families, wives, mothers, fathers and children as hostages and human shields, as well as assaults, curses and ongoing humiliation.

The prisons’ administration has turned these crimes and procedures into a systematic consistent reality. For instance, they pursued the crime of starvation against detainees, which led to the loss of 25 kgs for each detainee and resulted in consistent health problems, where this crime became a key factor that threatens detainees’ fate. The policies of the IPS concentrated on pursuing means of humiliation and degradation in order to affect the spirit of Palestinian detainees and deny their humanity, in addition to the systematic medical crimes which constituted the main reason for the martyrdom of many detainees.

It is necessary to highlight the policy of enforced disappearance against detainees from Gaza, as the Israeli occupation has arrested thousands of citizens from Gaza Strip, including workers who were residing in the lands occupied in 1948 for work, as well as civilians who were arrested throughout the ground invasion.

We have seen hundreds of people piled up on military vehicles, naked and in humiliating circumstances, as they were taken to military camps. During the past months, the occupation authorities refused to disclose any information about their identities and numbers. However, we were able to have some information from released detainees. Furthermore, the occupation authorities have prevented the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting detainees, where all international human rights organizations failed to stop the horrific crimes of the occupation.

The crime was not limited to the enforced disappearance, as the violations experienced by detainees from Gaza were never reported in prisons throughout the history.

The Israeli soldiers revealed their brutality and practiced many crimes in dealing with detainees. They documented their crimes by themselves through filming the torture and assault against detainees, challenging the world by their inhumane and unethical behaviors.

We are still paying the price for this policy, and still living in a state of anxiety and fear for thousands of Palestinians from Gaza about whom we know nothing.

There are many testimonies from recently released detainees from Gaza or those whom lawyers managed to visit inside prisons and detention centers, speaking about killings and executions carried out in front of them. It is worth mentioning that among the thousands abducted by the occupation from the Gaza Strip, 1.618 detainees were acknowledged by the occupation and classified as illegal fighters.

According to the above mentioned data, we confirm that all these crimes have afflicted women, children, elderly, sick people and people with special needs, and we also confirm that these crimes amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, where the language cannot describe what we have heard of testimonies and stories from detainees. This showed a state of failure by the international community and human rights organizations in light of the horrific crimes committed against our people in Gaza and the aggression against Palestinians in general in all the occupied territories, in addition to violations and crimes committed against male and female detainees held in Israeli prisons.