Fact Sheet: Situation for Palestinian prisoners in the occupation’s custody

Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS)

15/1/2025

This fact sheet presents the most important data on the number of Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons and military detention centers and camps until January 2025.

- Total number of prisoners: More than 10,400 - this data does not include all the detainees arrested from Gaza, especially those held in military camps.

● Female prisoners: 84 women held at al-Damon prison, including three children (under 18), four female prisoners from Gaza whose identities are known, and 21 women in administrative detention (without trial or charge). *Data on female prisoners until 14/1/2025

- Children: 340 children, not including those arrested from Gaza.

- Administrative detainees (held without trial or charge): 3,376 people including 95 children and 21 women.

Other data on categories of prisoners:

- Life sentences: The number of prisoners with life sentences is more than 600 people. This data includes all those who were sentenced to life and those against whom an indictment was filed sentencing them to life. The highest sentence among them is that of Abdullah al-Barghouti, who is serving 67 life sentences.

- Prisoners detained since before the Oslo Accords: 21 people. The oldest of them is prisoner Mohammad al-Tous, who has been detained since 1985. He is the oldest Palestinian prisoner to be continuously incarcerated.

- Additionally, there are 11 prisoners who have been detained since before Oslo, but were released during the 2011 Wafaa al-Ahrar prisoner exchange deal and were re-arrested in 2014. The oldest of them is the prisoner’s movement leader Nael al-Barghouti, who has entered his 45th year behind bars. He has spent the longest amount of time in detention in the history of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement.

- Prior to the genocide in Gaza, the number of released prisoners who were re-arrested from the 2011 prisoner exchange deal was 48 people. After the genocide, it rose to 52 people.

-The number of identified martyred Palestinian detainees since the occupation of 1967 is 292 people, including 64 whose bodies are being held by occupation authorities. The 64 figure includes 53 detainees who were martyred during the genocide and whose bodies are being withheld. Dozens of other detained Palestinians from Gaza have been martyred and are still subject to enforced disappearance. Occupation authorities refuse to provide information about them.