During the month of April 2025, the Israeli occupation authorities continued to implement systematic arrest campaigns in the West Bank governorates, where (530) arrests were recorded, including (60) children and (18) women, in light of the ongoing comprehensive aggression on the West Bank, coinciding with the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Arrests and attacks were concentrated in the cities of Jenin and Tulkarm, and included violent field operations ranging from summary executions to forced displacement and the destruction of infrastructure. Hundreds of citizens across the West Bank were also arrested and interrogated, including children and women, who were subjected to physical and psychological assaults and used as hostages and human shields, as part of a systematic escalation policy.

17,000 arrests since the start of the war of extermination

With the April figures, the total number of arrests in the West Bank since October 7, 2023, has risen to approximately 17,000, including those subsequently released. The figures do not include detainees in the Gaza Strip, whose number is estimated in the thousands.

A dangerous escalation in administrative detention

Human rights organizations (the Commission of Prisoners' and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association) monitored an unprecedented escalation in administrative detention orders this month. The number of administrative detainees until the beginning of May 2025 reached (3,577) detainees, including more than 100 children. This is the highest number in history since the beginning of the occupation, and exceeds the number of convicts and detainees.

Two dead in occupation prisons

During the month of April, the martyrdom of Musab Adili (Nablus) was announced on 4/16/2025, and Nasser Khalil Radaideh (Al-Ubaidiya) on 4/20/2025.

Families of detainees from Gaza also received reports that their sons had been killed in Israeli prisons, without any clarification or confirmation from official Israeli authorities.

Systematic crimes inside prisons

Prisoners' testimonies during lawyer visits in April confirm that the occupation continues to perpetrate a series of violations inside prisons, including physical and psychological torture, systematic starvation, and medical neglect.

The spread of scabies is a glaring example of deliberate neglect, particularly in the Negev and Megiddo prisons, amid calls for urgent intervention from the international community, particularly the World Health Organization.

Autopsy results reveal starvation crime

The autopsy results of the minor martyr Walid Ahmed, who was killed last March, revealed that deliberate starvation was the primary cause of his death, confirming the occupation's perpetration of an organized crime against prisoners, especially children.

Continuous raids and escalating repression

Dozens of raids and brutal attacks have been recorded inside prisoner sections, particularly against leaders of the prisoner movement, who have been subjected to severe beatings and continuous solitary confinement since the start of the aggression.

Female prisoners in Damon prison: isolation, starvation, and medical neglect

(35) female prisoners are still in Al-Damon prison, including two female prisoners who are five months pregnant, and a female prisoner with cancer. They are facing harsh conditions, including collective isolation, deprivation of basic needs, the imposition of a starvation policy, and deliberate medical neglect.

Detained Children: Victims of Escalating Crimes

By early May 2025, at least 400 children were detained, including more than 100 administrative detainees. They face all forms of abuse, including torture, abuse, and starvation, as well as deprivation of education and healthcare.

Gaza Detainees: Horrifying Testimonies and Enforced Disappearances

Institutions have received horrific testimonies from detainees in Gaza, particularly at Ofer camp, describing brutal physical and psychological torture, sexual assault, the enforced disappearance of dozens of detainees, the refusal to disclose the fate of martyrs, and systematic restrictions on legal visits.

The prison administration continues to obstruct legal visits by lawyers, particularly at Nafha and Rimon (Janot) prisons, by imposing strict censorship, delaying appointments, preventing lawyers from entering the prisons, and humiliating detainees during their transportation to the visits, leading many to refuse to provide any statements.

Statistical data until the beginning of May 2025:

Total number of prisoners and detainees: more than 10,100

Number of child prisoners: at least 400

Number of female prisoners: 35

Number of administrative detainees: 3,577

Number of Gaza detainees classified as "unlawful combatants": 1,846 (data does not include all detainees)

Before the start of the war of extermination:

Total number of prisoners: 5,250

Number of children: 170

Number of administrators: 1320

Number of female prisoners: 40

Number of martyrs of the prisoner movement:

Since October 7, 2023: 66 martyrs (only their identities are known)

Since 1967: 303 martyrs

Urgent warning

Prisoners' organizations warned that the time factor has become an existential threat to the lives of thousands of prisoners, given the ongoing crimes and the lack of any meaningful international intervention. The organizations continue their urgent call for genuine international action to halt the abuses perpetrated against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.