"Before Monday’s release, 11,056 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons, according to statistics from the Israeli NGO HaMoked in October 2025. At least 3,500 of those were held in administrative detention without trial. An Israeli military database has indicated that only a quarter of those detained in Gaza were classified as fighters."
Så Israel har fortsatt 9000 palestinere fengslet.
Så det er fortsatt
minst 1500 palestinere som er fengslet uten lov og dom.
Gisler er vel den rette betegnelsen.
“He looks like a dead body. But we will bring him back to life,” he said, laughing. They were off to a restaurant, where they would have to be careful that Masalma did not eat too much, as his stomach was not used to much food after not eating well in prison.
The emotional reunions were heightened by the fact prison visits were suspended by Israel after the 7 October 2023 attack. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
The others also looked to be in bad shape. Their cheekbones jutted out, with some bearing the marks of recent beatings and a few unable to walk without being propped up by their relatives.
When asked about their treatment in the prisons, a prisoner apologised and said he could not answer, for fear that he would face repercussions from Israeli authorities, only saying that it was “horrible”.
Another said that the conditions were “very, very, very difficult,” and that the last two years in prison were the “worst two years of his life”, asking that he not be named.
Palestinians have faced abuse and inhumane treatment in Israeli prisons “as a matter of policy” according to the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem. The group alleges that Palestinian detainees are denied medical treatment, adequate food and face physical abuse in Israeli prisons.
Recently released prisoners described poor treatment within Israel’s jails. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Activists have long said that wide-scale imprisonment of Palestinians is used as a tool to enforce Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, with statistics estimating up to 40% of Palestinians have been arrested at some point.
Israel says its prison system complies with international law.
Israel also forbade people from celebrating the release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank, where detainees were kept. A flyer distributed by the Israeli military warned people that “we are surveilling you everywhere” and threatening that if they supported “terrorist organisations” they could be arrested.
Six different relatives of prisoners all said they had been visited by Israeli security services in recent days.
“They came to warn us not to hold celebrations, not to raise flags or banners, not to gather in the diwan [hall]. These days, the hardest thing is to speak the truth,” said a relative of the prisoner Hani al-Zeer, who asked not to be identified by name out of fear of security repercussions. Zeer had been imprisoned for 23 years, and the relative, as well as Zeer’s son, had also been imprisoned several times.