Arrests

Israeli soldiers arrest Palestinian shepherds in the village of Rujum ‘Ulya, Masafer Yatta, West Bank, March 25, 2026. (Basel Adra)

Brief, arbitrary abductions: A new tool of Israeli intimidation in Masafer Yatta

In recent months, soldiers have arrested dozens of West Bank Palestinians — many blindfolded, beaten, and then released without explanation.

By Basel Adra April 15, 2026

Former Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen and right-wing activists stage a counter demonstration while Palestinian students and activists protest against the Israeli army operation in Jenin, at Tel Aviv University, January 30, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

On Israeli campuses, the state marks another enemy within

As the occupation's mechanisms of control seep into the civilian sphere, Jewish dissidents are next in line — and academic freedom offers no protection.

By Yael Berda November 21, 2025

Palestinian detainees from Gaza seen in a courtyard in a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israeli intelligence data: Militants account for only 1 in 4 Gaza detainees

A classified Israeli army database indicates that the vast majority of the 6,000 Palestinians who have been arrested in Gaza and held in appalling conditions in Israeli detention are civilians, a joint investigation finds.

By Yuval Abraham September 4, 2025

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Portraits of fascism: a special photography project

Since Oct. 7, Israeli police have arrested hundreds for opposing the Gaza war and published degrading photos of several detainees. Seven agreed to be photographed again — this time on their own terms.

By Oren Ziv May 9, 2025

Israeli police arrest a Palestinian woman in Karmiel, northern Israel, July 3, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

For Israeli police, humiliating Palestinian women is a tool of collective repression

Political arrests of Palestinian women in Israel — who face strip-searches, blindfolding, and doxxing — aim to send the community a clear message.

By Mariam Farah December 20, 2024

Palestinian activist Sami Huraini waves a flag in front of Israeli soldiers during a march in A-Rakeez, Masafer Yatta, West Bank, January 8, 2021. (Keren Manor/Activestills)

From attack dogs to prison time, this is how Israel is trying to thwart my activism

The Israeli army wants to make an example of Palestinians who protest the occupation — a campaign my village At-Tuwani has faced for generations.

By Sami Huraini October 24, 2024

Israeli policemen arrest a Palestinian man after tasing him in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al Amud, September 27, 2013. Israeli police closed off prayer to Palestinian worshipers under the age if 50 in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, forcing Palestinians to pray in different locations outside of checkpoints. (Activestills)

60% of people arrested by Israeli police are ‘non-Jews’

The data, obtained for the years 2011-2015, paints an even more grim picture of discrimination, especially in the arrests of minors, for crimes like ‘incitement,’ and predictably, for ‘security offenses.’ Ayman Odeh: Data reveals deeply ingrained racism in the police. By Noam Rotem Non-Jews comprise a mere 25 percent of Israel’s population, yet 60 percent…

By +972 Magazine June 1, 2016

Illustrative photo of Israeli soldiers inside a Palestinian village. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Just another arbitrary detention of a Palestinian child

Soldiers detain a child in his pajamas and slippers, harshly interrogate him without a parent or attorney present, and then release him 12 hours later as if nothing ever happened. We can already tell you what the military’s investigation will look like. By Yossi Gurvitz, written for Yesh Din J., a 13-year-old Palestinian boy, lives…

By +972 Magazine February 13, 2016

Medics and journalists succumb to pepper spray assault by a member of Israel's Border Police (credit: Fadi Arouri)

Why the Israeli and Palestinian media tell such different stories

As violence against Israeli Jews declines, the Israeli media has gone back to business as usual. Palestinian newspapers, on the other hand, are full of stories of death, arrests, and all-out war. For the past several weeks, during what the Israeli press has deemed a “wave of terror,” included stabbings and extrajudicial killings in the…

By Orly Noy November 4, 2015

Former Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan participates in a demonstration in the West Bank city of Nablus in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners who are still on hunger strike, August 1,2012. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

Israel’s broken promises to curb administrative detention

In response to Palestinian hunger strikes, Israel has made — and subsequently broken — all sorts of promises, both in individual cases and regarding the practice of administrative detention itself. Palestinian administrative detainee Khader Adnan announced last week that he would begin a week-long hunger strike to protest the renewal of his administrative detention. Adnan…

By Haggai Matar January 14, 2015

An Israeli soldier stands on the rooftop of a Palestinian home in the West Bank city of Hebron, June 18, 2014. (File photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

IDF kills two Palestinians far from center of search operation

In Ramallah, Palestinian youth clash with raiding Israeli soldiers and Palestinian police alike. Israeli Border Police shoot to death a mentally unstable man in Nablus. Israeli forces killed two Palestinians overnight in the northern West Bank, far from the center of search operations for three kidnapped Israeli teens in the southern Hebron region. The two…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man June 22, 2014

Police arrest Bedouin youths as they pushed the remaining protesters back into the village of Hura. Youth had blocked the main road for hours after a protest against the Prawer Plan, November 30, 2013. (Photo: Activestills.org)

Police, courts take extreme measures against anti-Prawer Plan arrestees

Twelve activists arrested at Negev ‘day of rage’ protest are still in jail after more than a week; police are asking they be detained until the end of legal proceedings; activists fear the heavy handedness is an attempt to smother resistance to Prawer. Solidarity demonstration is held in Tel Aviv. It has been more than…

By Haggai Matar December 8, 2013

An IDF checkpoint in the West Bank [illustrative photo, by Ahmad Al-Bazz/ Activestills.org)

Why West Bank Palestinians avoid traveling at night

Something so basic, so normal, so human — like going home late from work, visiting family or a loved one in another town — becomes an overwhelming and frightful task in the face of the occupation. Last night, when I was headed from Ramallah to Bethlehem, I went through a checkpoint. As the service taxi…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat September 11, 2013