10,400Total number of Palestinian detainees in Israeli occupation prisons as of June 8, 2025 — this does not include thousands of detainees from Gaza who are being held in military camps amid ongoing forced disappearances.
(HaMoked – Center for the Defence of the Individual, as of Junel 8, 2025)
As for the West Bank and Jerusalem, there have been 17,000 arrests since October 7, up until May 1, 2025.
(Palestinian Prisoners› Club)
Earlier in April, Israel’s Prison Authority and Ministry of National Security announced:
“The detention capacity for Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons is 14,500, while the actual number of detainees exceeds 21,000.”
6,000 Palestinians have been arrested by the Israeli army from the West Bank since the beginning of the war.
Spokesperson for the Israeli Army, December 16, 2024
3,562 is the number of administrative detainees.
(HaMoked, June 8, 2025)
10,000 is the total number of administrative detention cases since October 7, including both new and renewed orders — among them, orders issued against children and women.
(Palestinian Prisoners› Club, as of December 16, 2024)
1,447 Sentenced prisoners
(HaMoked – Center for the Defence of the Individual, as of Junel 8, 2025)
3,600
Forcibly disappeared detainees
(Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor) as of March 5, 2025.
2,214
detainees from Gaza have been classified by the Israeli authorities as «unlawful combatants.»
(HaMoked – Center for the Defence of the Individual, as of Junel 8, 2025)
8,500 is the number of publicly reported missing persons.
7,000 is the number of officially registered missing persons.
(Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared, as of June 8, 2025)
440
child prisoners under the age of 18
(Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs – June 8, 2025)
Among them, 40 children are held under administrative detention.
The number of child arrests since October 7 has reached approximately 1,055 cases as of January 1, 2025.
(Palestinian Prisoners’ Club – January 1, 2025)
300
300 prisoners are serving life sentences (life imprisonment – up to 99 years).
The prisoner with the highest sentence is Abdullah Barghouti, sentenced to 67 life sentences, followed by Ibrahim Hamed, sentenced to 54 life sentences.
(Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs – January 1, 2025)
(Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, 14-12-2024)
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female prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons
(Palestinian Prisoners Club – June 8, 2025).
Among them are two pregnant female prisoners in their fifth month of pregnancy: Rima Blouei from Tulkarm and Zahraa Al-Kawazbeh from Bethlehem.
Among them is also a mother from Gaza whose identity is known — prisoner Siham Abu Salem — and another mother who has lost two sons (martyr›s mother), prisoner Haneen Jaber from Tulkarm, as well as a third prisoner who is a mother and is suffering from cancer.
A total of 525 cases of arrest among women in the West Bank and Jerusalem have been recorded since the beginning of the genocidal war.
It is worth noting that the majority of the female detainees in Israeli occupation prisons have been arrested because of their freedom of opinion and expression, under the pretext of «incitement» on social media platforms. Like all Palestinian prisoners, they are subjected to torture, starvation, systematic medical crimes, and collective isolation under harsh and difficult conditions, accompanied by repressive actions carried out by the prison system.
There are also 8 female administrative detainees currently held without charge or trial.
296 prisoners serving life sentences were freed by the resistance in the first phase of the exchange deal.
295 prisoners serving long-term sentences were freed by the resistance in the first phase of the exchange deal.
(Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, 14-12-2024)
700
Sick prisoners are currently held in Israeli prisons.
Among them is Osama Amin Adais (34 years old) from Hebron, who is facing a concerning health condition. He underwent an amputation above the knee of his left leg after being shot by Israeli forces during his arrest on September 9, 2024. Additionally, he sustained another injury in his abdomen.
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17 prisoners have spent more than 32 years in detention.
The first phase of the release included (4) of them, and (17) prisoners remain in Israeli prisons who were detained before the «Oslo Agreement,» the oldest of whom is prisoner «Ibrahim Abu Makh» from the occupied 1948 areas, who has been detained for 39 years.
(Abd al-Nasser Farwana - Specialist in Prisoners› Affairs) 13-3-2025
665
Palestinian corpses are being held in numbered graves, refrigerators, and the Sdei Taiman military camp, some of them since the 1960s and 1970s, including young people, the elderly, children, women, and prisoners. Note that this data does not include the martyrs whose bodies are held from the Gaza Strip.
Since the beginning of the war, 149 bodies have been held, which represents more than half of the martyrs held since 2015. It also does not include the number of martyrs from Gaza whose bodies are held, which is estimated to be in the hundreds.
Among the martyrs whose bodies are held:
259 martyrs since the beginning of the aggression in October 2023.
67 martyrs from the prisoner movement.
59 martyrs who are children under the age of 18.
9 martyrs who are women.
The only information revealed about the bodies of martyrs from Gaza held by the occupation was in July 2024, when the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz reported that the Israeli occupation was holding about 1,500 bodies of Palestinians, whose identities were unknown. The bodies were stored in refrigerated containers inside the military base known as Sdei Taiman and were classified by numbers, not names. The newspaper mentioned that the bodies had reached a certain stage of decomposition, with some missing limbs and others lacking facial features.
(22) prisoners who were martyred and announced since the beginning of the genocide war have their bodies held, and they are among (33) martyr prisoners whose bodies the occupation continues to hold, whose identities have been announced.
National Campaign for the Retrieval of Martyrs› Bodies, February 2025.
(National Campaign to Recover the Martyrs' Bodies, August 30, 2024)
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journalists are detained, including 6 female journalists, and 31 journalists from Gaza, of whom 16 are under administrative detention.
(Palestinian Prisoners› Club) May 13, 2025
15,000
total number of arrests from the Gaza Strip, with approximately 3,636 detainees still held in known and unknown prisons and detention centers, according to the statement made by the Israeli government to the Israeli Supreme Court.
(Kadoura Fares - Arab World News Agency TV Service, AWP) January 15, 2025, statement by the Israeli government to the Israeli Supreme Court.
3,636 detainees from Gaza, including 529 detainees who are denied visits.
January 15, 2025, statement by the Israeli government to the Israeli Supreme Court.
Among the total number of detainees, about 300 are undergoing trials, while 2,350 are held as «unlawful combatants.»
Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights - September 3, 2024.
310
martyrs from the prisoner movement since 1967, whose names are known, including:
81 martyrs whose bodies are still held by Israel, including 70 martyrs since the start of the genocide war.
(Palestinian Prisoners› Club) March 5, 2025.
237 martyrs who died before October 7.
73 martyrs after October 7, 2023, up until June 8, 2025, including 45 from Gaza, who are the only prisoners whose names have been identified.
Additionally, dozens of Gaza detainees who were martyred in prisons and detention camps, whose identities and circumstances of their deaths have not been revealed by the occupation, as well as many who were subjected to field executions.
According to an investigative report revealed by Haaretz newspaper on March 7, 2024, 27 Palestinian prisoners from Gaza were martyred in Israeli military detention centers since the beginning of the war. The Israeli army officially announced on June 1 that 36 Palestinian prisoners from Gaza were martyred in detention camps after October 7.
The numerical distribution of martyrs from the Palestinian prisoner movement in Israeli prisons according to the type of violation committed against them since 1967 until April 17, 2024:
79 prisoners were deliberately martyred after arrest.
105 prisoners martyred due to deliberate medical neglect and medical crimes.
110 prisoners martyred due to torture in Israeli prisons.
7 prisoners martyred due to direct gunfire.
The numerical distribution of martyrs from the Palestinian prisoner movement in Israeli prisons since 1967 until March 5, 2025, according to the period of detention:
45 martyrs : 1977-1967
26 martyrs : 1987-1977
50 martyrs : 1997-1989
75 martyrs : 2008-1989
30 martyrs : 2020-2009
11 martyrs : June 2021 - October 2023
73 martyrs : October 2023 - June 2025 8.
Exchange Deal – Phase One:
First Batch – (January 20, 2025)
90 prisoners were released, including children and women.
Second Batch – (January 25, 2025)
200 prisoners were released, including:
121 serving life sentences
79 with high sentences
Third Batch – (January 30, 2025)
110 prisoners were released, including:
32 serving life sentences
48 with high sentences
30 child prisoners
Fourth Batch – (February 1, 2025)
183 prisoners were released, including:
18 serving life sentences
54 with high sentences
111 prisoners from the Gaza Strip who were detained after October 7, 2023
Fifth Batch – (February 8, 2025)
183 prisoners were released, including:
18 serving life sentences
54 with high sentences
111 prisoners from the Gaza Strip who were detained after October 7, 2023
Sixth Batch – (February 15, 2025)
369 prisoners were released, including:
36 serving life sentences
333 prisoners from the Gaza Strip detained after October 7, 2023
Seventh Batch – (February 22, 2025)
628 prisoners were released, including:
50 serving life sentences
60 with high sentences
47 prisoners from the Shalit deal who had been re-arrested
445 prisoners from the Gaza Strip detained after October 7, 2023
26 minors from Gaza
A total of 1,777 prisoners were released as part of the first phase of the exchange deal with the Israeli occupation, including:
285 prisoners serving life sentences
283 prisoners serving high sentences (10 years or more)
«The Oldest Freed Prisoner in Israeli Jails»
Freed prisoner Mousa Nawawra (70 years old) from Bethlehem, who was sentenced to two life terms and 21 additional years, regained his freedom after being released in the sixth batch of the first phase of the prisoner exchange deal on February 15, 2025.
Release of the Abu Hamid Brothers: Nasser, Mohammed, and Sharif (Naji)
They were among 70 prisoners forcibly deported from the occupied Palestinian territories. Their mother, Um Nasser Abu Hamid, was nicknamed «The Khansa of Palestine» after one of her sons was killed in 1994, five others were imprisoned, one of whom died in prison, another was not released, and three were forcibly exiled.
Israel released the three Palestinian brothers from the Abu Hamid family from Al-Amari refugee camp in Ramallah, central occupied West Bank, as part of a group of 200 prisoners freed in the second batch of the first phase of the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement in Gaza.
92 prisoners from Gaza who were serving life sentences or long sentences were released as part of the first phase of the exchange deal out of a total of 189 prisoners detained before October 7.
— Abdel Nasser Ferwana, specialist in prisoner affairs
1,045 detainees from Gaza, arrested after October 7, 2023, were released after being included in the first phase of the exchange deal. They were among thousands of forcibly disappeared detainees whose fate remains unknown.
— Abdel Nasser Ferwana, specialist in prisoner affairs