🔴 International Women’s Day: 72 Palestinian Female Political Detainees in Occupation Prisons Face Severe Abuse, Violations

Report issued by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. 

March 8, 2026

“One prisoner had her shoulder dislocated while being dragged violently while lying on the ground. Another was dragged in a brutal way that exposed her back and hair in front of the guards, and her knee was displaced; she suffered from pain for months and they refused to take her to the clinic. Another prisoner was beaten on her back and stomach.” – (D.B.), a female Palestinian political prisoner currently held by the Israeli occupation. 

Ramallah, occupied Palestine – On International Women’s Day, marked annually on March 8, three Palestinian prisoner and human rights institutions—the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association—have released a new report documenting the abuse and deteriorating conditions for Palestinian women held in Israeli occupation prisons based on testimonies gathered recently by lawyers of the organizations. 

The report reveals that 72 Palestinian women are currently imprisoned by Israeli occupation authorities, including three minors and 32 mothers, most of whom have been subjected to abuse, degrading treatment, and severe violations since their arrest. Based on legal documentation and testimonies from detainees, the report details policies of violent arrests, physical and psychological abuse, strip searches, sexual harassment, denial of medical care, and worsening detention conditions, particularly since the start of the genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip.

Since October 2023, more than 700 Palestinian women have been arrested across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, including students, activists, mothers, and women with no direct political involvement. The report highlights the increasing use of “administrative detention” without trial or charge, arrests based on so-called “incitement” related to social media expression, and the detention of women as hostages to pressure male family members.

Testimonies included in the report describe repression raids inside prisons, starvation policies, denial of medical care, and humiliating treatment, with many detainees held in Damon Prison under conditions that amount to systematic maltreatment and severe abuse. 

The organizations call for urgent international attention to the situation of Palestinian women prisoners and urges concrete action to ensure their protection and release.

👇🏼Full report in English, including detailed statistics and detainee testimonies, attached below.

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