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West BankIsraeli Forces Arrest Journalist Alaa Al-Rimawi in West Bank Raid
Troops detain dozens across occupied territories while settlers burn agricultural land near Ramallah amid escalating military operations.
RightsJerusalem Child Sentenced to Prison Amid Rising Detentions
Ismail Muammar al-Khatib received a forty-five day term as rights groups report hundreds of minors held in Israeli facilities without clear charges.
Soldiers eject detained Palestinian from vehicle after beating
Rights group shares footage of man thrown onto ground near Al-Mughayyir village as military jeep drives away without providing aid.
RightsDetained Gaza doctor reports ongoing abuse by Israeli prison guards
Physicians for Human Rights states Hussam Abu Safiya faces beatings and threats while held without charge since late 2024.
RightsWoman in the Damon prison video is held without charge
Her family recognised Hanaa Tahaineh, 49, by her weight loss. She has scabies and no treatment, her husband says, and was arrested a week before he was released.
RightsPrisoners' groups: Gaza detainees' fate hidden for a third year
Israel's prison service lists 1,358 Gazans as "unlawful combatants". The death in custody of the journalist Ehab Diab came to light only after a petition to Israel's Supreme Court.
RightsGaza hospital director held 600 days without charge or trial
Hussam Abu Safiya was taken from Kamal Adwan Hospital in December 2024. Amnesty International has renewed its demand for his release, and 800 British medics wrote to the foreign secretary in July.
RightsBen-Gvir films women prisoners and boasts of their conditions
Video he published on Sunday shows him telling Palestinian women held at Damon that the shortages they describe are his own policy, and that he is pleased with them.
RightsRights centre puts Gaza's forcibly disappeared at up to 3,000
A study of 317 documented cases traces where people vanished: home raids, displacement routes, checkpoints and the queues for food.
Rights370 Palestinian children are held in Israeli prisons, centre says
Most are at Megiddo and Ofer, where released minors describe beatings, restraint and food withheld. Israeli forces arrested 276 children in the first half of the year.
West BankUS citizen detained in a Tuqu' raid is freed; relatives stay held
Hussein Jabarin was taken from his family's home near Bethlehem on 12 August and held without charge for four days. He is preparing to fly back to Pennsylvania; the relatives arrested alongside and before him are still in Israeli prisons.
Man killed south of Khan Younis was handcuffed, Red Crescent says
Ibrahim Mohammed Kawar'a, 29, was shot on Friday evening at Qizan al-Najjar and his body was taken to the Nasser Medical Complex. No account has been given of when he was detained or why he was shot while in restraints.
GazaIsraeli naval forces detain four fishermen off Gaza City
Fishermen's committees said naval boats fired on the vessel while its crew was working, then took four men off it. Two of them are 17 years old.
RightsIsrael begins building a death-row wing, prisoners' society says
The work follows a law passed in March that makes a death sentence the default for Palestinians convicted of killing before a military court.
West Bank30 Palestinians detained in a day of West Bank raids
The Palestinian Prisoner Society counted arrests in five governorates on Wednesday, and puts the number of Palestinians now held by Israel at about 9,400, a third of them without charge.
RightsSyria detains seven police staff after a death in custody
A committee is examining how Mohammed Gamira was held at the Haffeh station and whether the law was followed.
RightsPalestinian detainees have spent 1,000 days in isolation, body says
A monitoring paper puts the number held at about 9,400, of whom 3,244 are jailed without a trial.
RightsGaza journalist Mohamed Arab in court 29 months after arrest
His lawyer and Palestinian press bodies say he is held as an unlawful combatant with no clear indictment presented.
RightsRamallah doctor known for treating the poor detained, family says
Mazen Rantisi's daughter says he was targeted for his community work.