Overview on Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails

Karim Younes is the longest serving Palestinian prisoner still in detention. He has now spent 32 years in Israeli occupation jails. Karim Younes is scheduled to be released end of March 2014, in the last phase of releases of pre-Oslo prisoners. 5000 Palestinian prisoners continue awaiting their freedom hoping they will not break world records in longest periods of political detention.

Imprisoned Palestinian Parliamentarians

Ahmed Saadat, Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was abducted from Jericho Prison in 2006, in violation of an international agreement. The Inter-Parliamentary Union called repeatedly for his release. He is imprisoned alongside a dozen other Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, in an unacceptable attack against Palestinian democracy.

Medical Negligence

Since 1967, 52 prisoners have died as a result of medical neglect. The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) has adopted a systematic policy of medical negligence in prisons and detention centers housing Palestinian detainees. Last year alone, 2 Palestinian prisoners died due to medical negligence: Maysara Abu Hamdieh and Hasan Turabi

Administrative Detention

175 Palestinians are held under administrative detention, including 9 Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council. Administrative detention is a procedure that allows the military to hold prisoners indefinitely on secret information without charging them or allowing them to stand trial.

Children behind bars

At the end of December 2013, a total of 154 Palestinian children were imprisoned and prosecuted in the Israeli military court system, including 14 children between the ages of 14 and 15. Three in four Palestinian children detained in 2013 by the Israeli military in occupied Palestine endured physical violence during arrest and interrogation.

Human rights defenders

Palestinians who organize and participate in protests and demonstrations against the Separation Wall and settlements are widely recognized as human rights defenders, due to their efforts to engage civil society in peaceful methods of resistance aimed at ending Israel’s violations of human rights and international law

Stop G4S

G4S is a British-Danish private security company that provides services and equipment to Israeli prisons, checkpoints, the Apartheid Wall and the Israeli police. Palestinian and international organisations called for action to be taken to hold G4S accountable for its involvement with Israel’s unlawful detention of Palestinians.

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