Rights groups detail scale of Palestinian detainees held by ‘Israel’
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- Total number of Palestinian ploitical prisoners reaches about 9,300, excluding ‘Israeli’ military camps.
- Figures show sharp increases in administrative detention and child prisoners.
Palestinian detainee advocacy groups released updated figures detailing the number of Palestinian detainees held in ‘Israeli’ prisons as of December 2025.
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The groups said the data is based on information from prisoner institutions and figures published by the ‘Israeli’ Prison Service up to December 2025. They stressed that the statistics do not include detainees held in military camps run by the ‘Israeli’ army.
Overall detainee numbers
The total number of detainees in ‘Israeli’ prisons stands at approximately 9,300. The majority are either pretrial detainees or held under administrative detention without charge or trial.
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The figures show that 1,254 prisoners are serving sentences following convictions issued by ‘Israeli’ courts.
Women and children in detention
The number of female detainees currently stands at 51, including 2 girls. The number of detained children has reached 350, most of whom are held in Ofer and Megiddo prisons.
Administrative detention and other classifications
The groups reported that 3,350 Palestinians are being held under administrative detention orders, a practice that allows ‘Israel’ to detain individuals for renewable periods without formal charges, citing security grounds.
They also said that 1,220 detainees are classified by ‘Israel’ as “unlawful combatants”. This figure, they noted, does not include all Gaza detainees held in ‘Israeli’ military camps under the same designation. The classification also applies to Arab detainees from Lebanon and Syria.
Palestinian political prisoner institutions said the updated figures highlight the scale of detention policies and called for continued monitoring of conditions and legal procedures affecting detainees held by ‘Israel’.
