🚨“Four Violent Raids Per Week”: Palestinian Political Prisoners Testify to Ongoing Attacks, Severe Abuse

Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS)
February 24, 2026

“Not a single day passes without violent crackdowns, assaults, or searches. Over four repression raids are carried out per week. During every raid, police dogs are brought in and grenades are used...” – Detainee (L.K.), a Palestinian political prisoner held in the Israeli occupation’s Ofer prison.

“Most of these raids result in injuries ranging from bruises and fractures to wounds caused by rubber-coated bullets.” — Detainee (R.Y.) also held in Ofer prison. 

Ramallah, occupied Palestine – In a new briefing published Tuesday, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) presents harrowing testimonies from 12 Palestinians detained in the Israeli occupation’s Ofer prison. The accounts were collected in January and February 2026 during visits by PPS lawyers. The report also draws on dozens of additional testimonies gathered during the same period, exposing systematic patterns of abuse, widespread violations, and grave crimes committed within Israel’s prison system against Palestinian political prisoners.

The testimonies reveal an alarming consistent escalation in systematic assaults, including gang-beatings, shootings with rubber-coated bullets, new types of weapons that inflict burns on skin, breaking of bones, and other types of attacks resulting in lifelong disabilities for many detainees. Palestinian prisoners reported violent, half-an-hour-long crackdowns for minor acts, such as covering their heads with towels due to the cold. This comes in addition to systematic degrading treatment and deliberate humiliation. 

Thousands of prisoners continue to endure starvation, deliberate deprivation of food and water, denial of medical care, and inhumane living conditions. The spread of scabies and other untreated skin diseases continues to be rampant, affecting the majority of detainees. Across detention facilities, the number of sick prisoners is rising sharply, fueled by harsh conditions, lack of sanitation, and deliberate starvation that weaken immune systems and cause widespread illness.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society calls on all international political, legal, social, economic and civil institutions, as well as non-governmental organizations and civil society groups, coalitions and movements, to take action, disrupt business-as-usual, and pressure their governments to hold the Israeli occupation accountable, stop its crimes, and save the lives of Palestinian political prisoners. 

Full briefing and testimonies in English below👇🏼

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