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Amiram Ben-Uliel, convited of over the Duma arson attack in July 2015, arrives to a court hearing on his appeal, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, March 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The hidden list of Jewish terrorists Israel’s far right wants to free

Ministers and activists are pushing to release dozens of prisoners, including murderers, who attacked Palestinians. The state won’t disclose their identities.

By Sivan Tahel December 3, 2025

Fares Sritah, 19, from the Jerusalem neighborhood Beit Hanina neighborhood, is brought to Jerusalem's District Court, August 13, 2015. Sritah was charged with attempting to join Islamic State. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Who are the ISIS supporters in Israel’s prisons?

The 46 ISIS-associated prisoners represent only 0.3 percent of the prison population and just one-tenth of one percent of all prisoners. Some went off to fight in Syria, while others expressed support for the group on social media. By Noam Rotem As of the end of June, Israel was imprisoning 46 alleged ISIS supporters, according…

By +972 Magazine September 4, 2016

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas embraces Palestinians recently released from Israeli prisons at a ceremony in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 14, 2013. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

Why Palestinians mark Prisoners’ Day

More than 7,000 Palestinians, including hundreds of minors, are currently in Israeli prisons. Honoring prisoners and ‘freedom fighters’ isn’t just a Palestinian tradition, however. Israelis do it, too. By Noam Rotem Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza marked “Prisoners Day” Sunday, commemorating and highlighting the plight of thousands of Palestinians being held in Israeli…

By +972 Magazine April 17, 2016

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Ayalon prison facility, near the city of Ramla (photo: Activestills)

Israel bans Palestinian prisoners from bringing in books

The ban is a response to smuggling attempts using hollowed-out books, prison officials say. No such sweeping punishments are imposed on Israeli prisoners, attorney says. The Israel Prison Service (IPS) has been changing its policy about what it allows Palestinian security prisoners to receive inside its prisons, and has now banned them from bringing in…

By Haggai Matar January 27, 2016

Demonstration in support of administrative detainees, Jaffa, Israel. (photo: Yotam Ronen/Activestills)

‘Free Ahmad Qatamesh’

Accused of being a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmad Qatamesh has been under administrative detention since March 2011, without trial or indictment. Now Qatamesh, who calls for one democratic state between the river and the sea, is having his detention extended under the premise that he is ‘a threat to…

By +972 Magazine September 7, 2013

Palestinian Organizer Tortured in Israeli Jail, 23.03.2010 (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Knesset extends legislation that facilitates torture

The Knesset has extended temporary legislation under which interrogations of security prisoners are exempt from requirements to visually record the investigation, Haaretz recently reported. The security establishment pushed hard to make the law permanent; Haaretz reports that opposition by two of the democratic-leaning Likud members, Dan Meridor and Michael Eitan, as well as human rights…

By Dahlia Scheindlin July 8, 2012

What do genocide, Schalit have to do with Palestinian prisoners?

The recent curtailment of the rights of Palestinian prisoners was presented by Israel as leverage designed to secure the release of Gilad Schalit. But Schalit has been released, while the sanctions remain. This past summer, somewhere around the fifth anniversary of Gilad Schalit’s capture, and several months before his release, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and…

By Haggai Matar November 25, 2011