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Since 1967 Israel has arrested hundreds of thousands of Palestinian approximately (650 thousand), which consists about 20% of the Palestinian population in this area.

The number of prisoners in Israeli jails until now is 8800, (6292) of them received salaries by MODA this month distributed at 28 jails and other detentions centers, in addition to that hundreds of them get salaries by the Ministry of Finance because they are individuals in the Palestinian Security Forces and other Civil Jobs in the PNA, the rest are new prisoners arrested on the earlier months their procedures for getting their salaries are not finished yet. In addition to those prisoners who were arrested recently and still under interrogation and in investigation cells not paid yet.

The estimated amount of money being paid by the (PNA) to detainees is 3 million $

- 578 (6.7%) of prisoners who were arrested before the beginning of the al-Aqsa Intifada are still in custody, distributed as shown in the following table:

Area	Number of prisoners	Percentage
West bank	296	51.2 %
Gaza strip	170	29.4 %
Jerusalem, 48 areas and other areas	112	19.4%
Total	578	100 %

- 369 (4.2%) of these prisoners have been detained prior to the Oslo Accords.

- 209 (2.4%) of these prioners were arrested following the signing of the Oslo Accords and before the beginning of the al-Aqsa Intifada.

The prisoners according to areas:

Area	Total	Percentage
West bank	7600	86.4%
Gaza strip	650	7.4%
Jerusalem, 48 areas and other areas	550	6.2%
Total	8800	100%

Social status	Number	Percentage
Single	6477	73.6%
Married	2323	26.4%
Total	8800	100%

Female prisoners:

More than 400 female Palestinians have been arrested since the beginning of the al-Aqsa Intifada.

Type of sentence	Number	Percentage
Sentenced	66 prisoners	57.9%
Waiting for trail	42 prisoners	36.8 %
Administrative detention	6 prisoners	5.3%
Total	114 prisoners	100 %

Child prisoners in numbers:

Nearly 4000 Palestinian child have been arrested since the outbreak of Al-Aqsa Intifada (28/9/2000).

- 297 children, (3.4%) of the total number of prisoners, are still detained in Israeli jails

- Hundreds of prisoners were arrested when they were children and they are now over 18 are still detained inside Israeli prisons.

- 99% of child prisoners have been subject to torture especially put black & thick packet on the head, and Shabeh position

Status	Number	Percentage
Sentenced	136	45.8 %
Waiting for trail	155	52.2 %
Administrative detention	6	2 %
Total	297	100 %

Detention period	Number	Percentage
1 month – 10 years	2616 prisoners	61.3 %
10 – 15 years	410 prisoners	9.6 %
15 – 20 years	674 prisoners	15.8 %
50 years and over	570 prisoners	13.3 %
Total	4270	100 %

Type of sentence	Number	Percentage
Sentenced	4270	48.5 %
Administrative detention	650	7.4 %
Waiting for trail	3880	44.1 %
Total	8800	100%

Detention period	Number
Prisoners who have spent more than 25 years, the oldest of whom is Said Al-Atabaa	6
Prisoners who have spent more than 20 years and less than 25 years	26
. Prisoners who have spent more than 15 years and less than 20 years	116
Prisoners who have spent more than 10 years and less than 15 years	266
Total of Prisoners who have spent more than 10 years	414

The prisoners who have spent over twenty years in prison are 32, among them six prisoners who have been in costudy for over a quarter of a century .

- More than ( 140) prisoners, who were arrested before Al-Aqsa Intifada, suffer from bad health conditions, like the heart diseases , Meniscus and Ophthalmic diseases.

- Nearly ) 1000 ) prisoners suffer from chronic diseases , because they were arrested after they had been injured and they did not receive any medical treatment

It is very rare that a detainee is not subject to a form of torture. Many internationally prohibited methods of torture are still being practiced against detainees. Many detainees have been subject to more than one form of torture at the same time.

Type of torture	Percentage
Subject to beating	99 %
Put in the fridge	68 %
Subject to the shabeh position	88%
Forced to stand for long hours	92%
Deprived of sleeping	93%

All of the Palestinian prisoners were exposed to torture, health negligence or even killed by the Israeli soldiers after being arrested .Since the establishment of the Israeli prisons (181) Palestinian prisoners were killed by the Israelis, last example of that was (Jwad Adel Abu Mgasib) 18 years old from (Dir-ALBALAH of Gaza Strip) who was killed due to the health neglecting on 28/7/2005 in (alnaqb prison) taking by consideration that he was a child when he was arrested and he was serving a sentence of 33 months , and also the Arabic Syrian prisoner (Hail Hussein Abu Zaid) who served 20 years in Israeli jails lost his life due to cancer disease (leukemia) in Rmbam hospital / Haifa after being released by a decision of the health committee of (IPS) because of his health situation was very serious on 20/12/2004 and he died on 7/7/2005

Cause of death	Number	Percentage
Torture	70	38.7 %
Medical negligence	40	22.1 %
Extra –judicial killing after arrest	71	39.2 %
Total	181	100%

The martyrs prisoners according to areas:

The region	Number	Percentage
Gaza strip	59	32.6%
West bank and other areas	122	67.4 %
Total	181	100%

The prisoners according to areas:

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73.6%

Female prisoners:

Child prisoners in numbers:

It is very rare that a detainee is not subject to a form of torture. Many internationally prohibited methods of torture are still being practiced against detainees. Many detainees have been subject to more than one form of torture at the same time.

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The martyrs prisoners according to areas:

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