Israeli prison service

Israel was unprepared for 10,000 Palestinian security prisoners during war, report finds

Overcrowded prisons and the sudden release of senior Hamas figures during the Gaza war reportedly harmed Israeli security and delayed legal proceedings for October 7 attacks.

 Protesters gather outside Sde Teiman detention facility after some of them broke in, after Israeli military police arrived at the site as part of an investigation into the suspected abuse of a Palestinian detainee, near Beersheba, in southern Israel, July 29, 2024.
Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti gestures before the start of a deliberation at Jerusalem Magistrate's court, January 25, 2012

Ben-Gvir denies claim Marwan Barghouti beaten in prison, but 'proud' of worsening conditions

The Defense Ministry's new rail-mounted robot designed to secure sensitive sites, including prisons, military bases, and border facilities, September 11, 2025.

Israel unveils rail-mounted robot to guard borders, bases, and prisons

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir seen after a visit at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem Old City, during the Tisha B’Av, August 3, 2025.

Ben-Gvir hangs images of ruined Gaza in jails to intimidate Palestinian prisoners, Barghouti claims


New committee may prevent terrorists from watching World Cup in prison

"I do not intend to allow Hamas terrorists to watch the World Cup while the bodies of our soldiers are held in Gaza together with our kidnapped civilians."

The hand of a Palestinian inmate is seen in a prison in the West Bank city of Nablus February 11, 2008.

U.S.-born Jewish terrorist asks for prison furlough for son’s bris

Teitel is serving two life sentences for killing two Palestinians.

INMATES WALK through the Hermon Prison in northern Israel last week.

Overcrowding ‘unprecedented crisis’ says Israel Prison Services

IPS: No room left by next December without court-ordered expansion.

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Thousands of prisoners with hepatitis C do not receive medication

The Prison Service treated only 10 to 20 prisoners last year.

INMATES WALK through the Hermon Prison in northern Israel last week.

Raising the bars - inside Israel's high security prisons

Nafha Prison’s deputy warden Yariv Cohen, who is in charge of many security prisoners and terrorists, talks of life in jail from his perspective.

Nafha Prison’s deputy warden Yariv Cohen

Palestinian hunger strike ends after 40th day

Israeli Prison Service says there were no negotiations and no demands met; Palestinian officials declare victory for prisoners’ rights.

Palestinian members of a youth group wave their national flags and hold posters depicting portraits of Palestinian prisoners during a protest in solidarity with them.

Pizza Hut apologizes for post making fun of Palestinian hunger strike

Despite the apology some Twitter users have called for a boycott of the franchise.

Imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti eats in prison

Rule of Law: Israel's Palestinian prisoner predicament

As Palestinian prisoners enter the third week of a hunger strike, former Prisons Service chief Orit Adato tells the Post that Israel needs to rethink its policies.

Palestinians take part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem April 17, 2017

State folds, returns hunger striking Palestinian prisoners access to lawyers

On April 17, 1,500 Palestinian security prisoners started a hunger strike to protest what they called inhumane treatment and restrictions in the prisons.

A Hebron man demonstrates in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on a hunger strike in protest at being held in administrative detention

Arab merchants shut stores in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners

‘I don’t care if I go bankrupt,’ says Jerusalem store owner.

PEOPLE WALK past one of the more than 1,400 closed shops in the Muslim Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem on April 27, 2017