On Palestinian Prisoners Day 

Addameer launches an urgent appeal to the people of the world to boycott and isolate the illegal Israeli occupation. 

Under the title "Palestinian Prisoners Under Genocide", Addameer for Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association is launching the activities of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 2025 to highlight and expose the horrific crimes being committed against Palestinian prisoners and detainees. 

Since the beginning of the genocidal war against the Palestinian people, the Israeli occupation authorities have carried out widespread arrest campaigns targeting various segments of the Palestinian population. In a year and a half, more than 15,800 Palestinians have been arrested, including 500 women, 1200 children, and thousands of detainees who were placed under arbitrary administrative detention. 

At the same time, from the very first day of the genocidal war, the Israeli prison authorities have targeted Palestinian prisoners inside the prisons. This has involved violent raids on prisoners' cells by special units of the prison administration, severe beatings, torture, and ill-treatment. Prisoners have also been subjected to power and water cuts, and all of their belongings—including clothes, electrical appliances, and hygiene items—have been confiscated. Furthermore, they have been placed under complete isolation, family visits have been completely banned, and the International Committee of the Red Cross has been prevented from visiting them inside prisons. 

Additionally, a policy of starvation has been implemented against thousands of prisoners, who are being provided with only two extremely poor-quality and quantity meals a day. 

All these crimes, along with systematic medical neglect, have led to the deaths of 64 Palestinian prisoners while in detention, including a 17-year-old child—the first minor to be killed in prison since the beginning of the occupation. This number includes only those prisoners whose identities are known, in addition to dozens of detainees from the Gaza Strip who were killed in custody, whose names and circumstances of death have yet to be disclosed. 

On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, thousands of Palestinian detainees continue to endure acts of genocide behind prison walls—subjected to relentless physical, psychological, and sexual torture in an environment entirely devoid of accountability or justice. Disturbingly, Israeli authorities have not only permitted such abuses but have normalized them in the public sphere. Soldiers have circulated videos depicting the torture and humiliation of Palestinian prisoners, while senior officials have openly encouraged these practices through public statements issued since the onset of the genocide on October 7, 2023—all in full view of the international community, yet without any legal or moral consequences for the perpetrators. 

On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, we emphasize that the issue of Palestinian prisoners is a fundamental cause in the struggle for liberation from occupation. Full justice for the Palestinian people cannot be achieved without the release of all Palestinian prisoners and detainees held in occupation prisons, without an end to the arrest of Palestinians for exercising their right to self-determination, and without the dismantling of the Israeli military judicial system, which has been arbitrarily prosecuting Palestinians for 58 years. 

Today, we demand the free people of the world, in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners and detainees, to raise their voices loudly to stop the genocide being committed against the Palestinian people and to halt the crimes being perpetrated against Palestinian prisoners. We call on unions, student bodies, youth movements, and human rights organizations across the globe to mobilize urgently to put pressure on the illegal Israeli occupation to end its crimes against the Palestinian people, and to pressure your honorable governments to cut all ties with this occupation, which stands accused of committing genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. 

It is crucial that you impose an economic, cultural, and academic boycott on this occupation. You must pressure your governments to stop the export of weapons to a regime that uses them—supported by your governments and funded by your tax money—to commit horrific crimes against Palestinians. The time for action is now—no more complicity. 

The time has come to reject and isolate this illegal Israeli occupation. The time has come to confront this Israeli occupation, impose sanctions on it, and prevent it from continuing the genocide of the Palestinian people, and to hold Israeli war criminals accountable—from the lowest-ranking soldier in the occupation army to the highest levels of political and military leadership. 

The time has come to pressure your governments to arrest Israeli war criminals who have had arrest warrants issued against them by the International Criminal Court. The era of impunity must come to an end—and the era of full justice for the Palestinian people, and for the prisoners and detainees who have spent years behind bars unjustly, must begin. 

Justice will only be achieved when the last Palestinian detainee is freed, when the system of arbitrary detention is dismantled, and when those who endured years of imprisonment are fully compensated for the crimes inflicted upon them by an illegal, unlawful, and inhumane occupation. 

If you stay silent today about the crimes being committed against Palestinians, don’t be surprised when similar injustices reach your doorstep. No one is immune to the dangers of illegal occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Injustice left unchallenged in one place sets a dangerous precedent for the degradation of human rights everywhere. 

The era of impunity must end. The era of justice must begin. 

To the people of the world: This is your moment. 
Stand on the right side of history. 
Stand for freedom. 
Stand with Palestinian prisoners.