Jerusalem: Prisoners institutions reported on Monday that a total of 3850 arrests were made in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, during the first half of 2025. This figure includes approximately 400 children and 125 women.
According to Union of OIC News Agencies, the arrests were part of a systematic campaign carried out by the Israeli occupation authorities, extending the ongoing phase following a war of extermination. The report by the Commission of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners Club, and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association highlighted the brutality and crimes associated with these campaigns. The highest number of arrests occurred in March, with 800 cases recorded. The majority of those targeted were young men, former prisoners, and freed prisoners.
The institutions provided a grim overview of the conditions faced by prisoners and detainees in Israeli occupation facilities. Reports of torture, starvation, medical neglect, and sexual assaults were prevalent, and detainees were subjected to isolation and deprivation. Nineteen detainees reportedly died in custody during this period, including ten from Gaza and nine from the West Bank, among them a child named Walid Ahmed from Silwad.
Testimonies from prisoners revealed distressing accounts of the crimes they endured, with detainees from Gaza experiencing particularly harsh conditions. The spread of scabies further exacerbated the deteriorating health conditions within the prisons. Arbitrary administrative detention, often justified by secret files, has seen a significant increase, with over 3600 individuals detained under this pretext, including 87 children and 10 women.
The broader impact of the ongoing conflict is evident, with more than 18,000 arrests reported in the West Bank alone, excluding thousands more in Gaza. Since the beginning of the genocide, over 1450 children and 560 women have been detained. The total number of prisoners and detainees in Israeli occupation prisons reached approximately 10,800 by July 2025, marking a significant increase since the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000.
The current prison population includes 50 female prisoners and over 450 children. Administrative detainees number 3,629, while those classified as “unlawful combatants” total 2,454, the highest since the beginning of the genocide. This classification also encompasses Arab detainees from Lebanon and Syria.