During a press conference and a solidarity rally held today, Tuesday, in the city of Al-Bireh, prisoner advocacy organizations stated that 92 prisoners whose identities are known have died in custody over the past three years, while the fate of dozens of detainees from Gaza remains unknown due to enforced disappearance. They noted that approximately 28% of the total number of prisoners who have died in custody since 1967 perished within the last three years. The organizations reported that, as of the beginning of October, approximately 9,300 detainees remain in occupation prisons. This figure includes 118 serving life sentences, 91 female prisoners, 350 children, 3,101 administrative detainees, and 1,419 detainees classified by the occupation as "unlawful combatants"—a category that includes individuals from Syria and Lebanon. They confirmed that 26,000 arrests have been recorded in the West Bank, alongside thousands in Gaza, since the onset of the genocide, and that 49% of prisoners in occupation jails are held without charge or trial. Since the start of the genocide, the Israeli occupation has escalated its policies of arrest and persecution, transforming them into tools for collective retribution, subjugation, and the targeting of various segments of Palestinian society. According to available data, more than 26,000 arrests have been recorded in the West Bank—including occupied Jerusalem—while arrests in the Gaza Strip are estimated to number in the thousands. However, documenting these cases remains extremely difficult due to ongoing military operations, the disruption of information, and enforced disappearances. Arrests have targeted women, children, the elderly, the sick, journalists, and human rights workers; the number of detained women has exceeded 800, while arrests of children in the West Bank have surpassed 2,000 since the onset of the genocide. The impact of arrest extends beyond mere detention to encompass raids, searches, vandalism, threats, and mistreatment, alongside psychological, social, and economic repercussions for the detainees and their families. Consequently, human rights organizations view arrest as an ongoing tool for pressure and collective subjugation. Speakers called for intensifying international pressure on the occupation to halt and abolish the death penalty, and to ensure that neither military nor civil judicial systems are used to impose this penalty in a discriminatory manner. They also emphasized that protecting the lives of Palestinian prisoners and detainees is an international responsibility; it cannot be treated as an internal matter or left at the mercy of retaliatory policies.
Prisoner organizations: 92 martyrs among prisoners within three years.. and enforced disappearance conceals the fate of dozens of martyrs from Gaza detainees
"28% of the martyrs of the captive movement since 1967 have passed away during the last three years."

