Fact Sheet on Detainees and Prisoners in Israeli Occupation Prisons for June 2025
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)
3,174 detainees are being held in pre-trial detention.
(HaMoked – Center for the Defence of the Individual, as of Junel 8, 2025)
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)
600
600 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)
49
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)
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)
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.
308
martyrs from the prisoner movement since 1967, whose names are known, including:
78 martyrs whose bodies are still held by Israel, including 64 martyrs since the start of the genocide war.
(Palestinian Prisoners› Club) March 5, 2025.
237 martyrs who died before October 7.
71 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
71 martyrs : October 2023 - June 2025 8.