🔴 Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 2026
🔴 United Against Execution and Extermination

Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 2026 comes at a time when Palestinian political detainees face the harshest levels of torture, abuse, and extermination in the history of the Israeli occupation. It comes at a time when the occupation’s parliament voted in favor of a horrific law to execute Palestinian prisoners – to make their murder legal. This law is inseparable from the structure of extermination, and an extension of policies of ethnic erasure, against the Palestinian people.
Over nearly three years, specialized human rights institutions have accumulated a substantial body of testimonies and evidence revealing the severe and widespread crimes committed against thousands of Palestinian prisoners. They occur within a structured system of repression based on torture, starvation, denial of medical care, and multiple forms of physical and sexual abuse, including rape. The data and experiences of prisoners reveals that the occupation’s prisons and military camps are no longer merely places of detention but have become spaces where policies of extermination are practiced – exposing another face of the crime of genocide that began in occupied Gaza. 
Even before the passing of the ‘execution law,’ more than 100 Palestinian political prisoners had been murdered behind bars since the genocide in Gaza – through torture, severe physical assault, starvation and other inhumane methods. Meanwhile, dozens of detainees who were abducted from Gaza and were killed in custody, remain forcibly disappeared. 
There are currently more than 9,600 Palestinian and Arab prisoners held in Israeli occupation prisons. Repression is intensifying, and systematic abuses are rapidly escalating. What prisoners face is no longer just an extension of occupation policies. In the wake of the genocide in Gaza, it has become part of a broader system of severe violence targeting Palestinian existence in all its forms.