Today is the Palestinian Prisoners Day… this day serves as a stark reminder of the Israeli Occupation’s incarceration regime that constitutes one of the most complex and violent systems in the world. Designed as an instrument of colonial governance, this architecture of repression is currently holding approximately 9,600 Palestinian political prisoners. This includes 3,532 administrative detainees imprisoned without charge or trial, 342 child prisoners, and 84 women.
Since 1967, the scale of this system has reached roughly one million arrests, functioning as a foundational pillar of the colonial order to dismantle social and political structures. Following 7 October 2023, detention has been qualitatively transformed into a tool of collective punishment, marked by systematic torture, enforced disappearance, and the suspension of basic legal safeguards.