Resources
Reports, organizations, and materials that document the detention of Palestinian political prisoners — and tools to take action.
Data platform The Connected Databases An interactive map and open dataset linking prisons, prisoners, martyrs, and testimonies into one connected record of the carceral system. Explore the map, read the documentation, and download the open data. Explore the data platform → Interactive timeline The Prisoners' Movement A century of resistance behind bars — from the labour camps of the British Mandate to the hunger strikes, prisoner exchanges, and escapes that shaped the movement. Filter by era and explore the key moments. Explore the timeline →Organizations & documentation
Addameer Palestinian prisoner-support and human-rights association documenting arrest, detention, and conditions. Visit → 
Palestinian Prisoners’ Society Palestinian organization providing legal aid to detainees and their families and documenting prison conditions. Visit → 
Commission of Detainees’ Affairs Official Palestinian body responsible for the affairs of prisoners and former detainees, including legal follow-up and family support. Visit → 
Palestinian Center for Prisoners Advocacy Palestinian organization advocating for prisoners’ rights and documenting their detention and conditions. Visit → 
Asra Media (Prisoners’ Media Office) Media office carrying the voice of the Palestinian prisoner to the world through news, reports, and campaigns. Visit → 
Intl. Organization of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners (Tadamon) Organization documenting violations in Israeli prisons and advocating for the rights and release of Palestinian prisoners. Visit → 
Defense for Children International – Palestine Child-rights organization documenting and challenging the detention and ill-treatment of Palestinian children under military law. Visit → 
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Independent human-rights organization based in Gaza (est. 1995) documenting violations of international humanitarian and human-rights law. Visit → 
Al-Haq Independent Palestinian human-rights organization (est. 1979), affiliated with the International Commission of Jurists. Visit → 
Law for Palestine Organization using international law — research, advocacy, and strategic litigation — to advance Palestinian rights and self-determination. Visit → Key reports
Substantive reports, submissions, and official documents by Palestinian and international human-rights organizations, grouped by theme. Each links directly to the publisher.
Mass arrests & arbitrary detention
Administrative detention & military courts
Torture, ill-treatment & deaths in custody
- Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps 55 detainee testimonies documenting systematic, institutionalized torture and abuse after 7 October 2023.
- Living Hell Documents 84+ Palestinian detainees who have died in Israeli custody since October 2023.
- Unlawfully Detained, Tortured and Starved Detained Gaza medical workers held without charge, tortured during interrogation and kept in starvation conditions.
- Israel: Palestinian Healthcare Workers Tortured Detention and torture of Gaza doctors, nurses and paramedics since 7 October 2023.
- Israel’s escalating use of torture against Palestinians in custody UN warning on the rise of torture and preventable deaths in Israeli detention.
Children & women in detention
- Palestinian Children in the Israeli Military Detention System Arrest, interrogation and prosecution of Palestinian children under Israeli military law.
- Children in Israeli Military Detention: Observations and Recommendations Landmark UN finding that ill-treatment of detained Palestinian children is widespread and systematic.
- Joint report to the UN Committee Against Torture Evidence of abuses against Palestinian children held in Israeli military detention.
- Factsheet on Palestinian women prisoners (submission to CEDAW) Conditions and treatment of Palestinian women held in Israeli detention.
Gaza detainees & enforced disappearance (since Oct 2023)
- Israel must end mass incommunicado detention and torture of Palestinians from Gaza Incommunicado detention and torture of Gaza civilians, and deaths at the Sde Teiman military facility.
- Detention in the context of the escalation of hostilities in Gaza since 7 October 2023 UN thematic report on arbitrary and secret detention of Palestinians during the Gaza war.
- Thousands of Gaza detainees facing torture and ill-treatment in Israeli prisons Investigation into thousands of Gaza detainees, including 1,650 held under the Unlawful Combatants Law.
- Enforced disappearance as a pillar of genocide in Gaza On Israel’s policy of enforced disappearance of Palestinians detained from Gaza.
UN investigations & official documents
- Torture and Genocide — report of the Special Rapporteur (A/HRC/61/71) UN Special Rapporteur report addressing torture and detention in the occupied Palestinian territory.
- Genocide as colonial erasure (A/79/384) UN Special Rapporteur report to the General Assembly; addresses detention among the broader pattern of violations.
- Report of the Commission of Inquiry on gender-based and sexual violence UN inquiry into sexual and gender-based violence, including against Palestinian detainees.
- UN Commission finds war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israeli attacks Findings of the UN Commission of Inquiry, including on detention and treatment of detainees.
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