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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.
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.
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.
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.
Rights35 detainees from Gaza released through Kerem Abu Salem crossing
Palestinian prisoner organisations put the number still held at about 9,400, some 1,320 of them from Gaza.