Prisoners’ institutions said that the Israeli occupation authorities continued their systematic arrest campaigns in the West Bank during the month of March 2025, reaching 800 cases, including (84) children and (18) women, with the continuation of the genocide against our people, and the intensive arrest campaigns, in addition to the field investigations that affected hundreds in various parts of the West Bank, and the policy of using citizens as hostages and human shields.

It explained in its monthly report on arrests in the month of March, that the number of arrests in the West Bank since the beginning of the war of extermination and displacement on October 7, 2023, amounted to about 16,400 arrests of all categories, including (510) women and about (1,300) children, and this does not include the arrests in Gaza, which are estimated in the thousands.

The institutions confirmed that the level of administrative detention operations continues to rise, as the occupation continues to detain (3498) administrative detainees, including more than 100 children. This percentage of administrative detainees has not been seen for many decades, even at the height of the popular uprisings. The military courts have contributed more since the beginning of the genocide in entrenching this crime, through the formal court sessions that have continued for decades.

During the month of March, three martyrs were announced from among the prisoners and detainees: Khaled Abdullah from Jenin, who was martyred in Megiddo Prison in February and was announced as martyr in March; Ali al-Batsh from Gaza, who was martyred in February and was announced as martyr in March; in addition to the child martyr Walid Ahmed (17 years old), who was martyred in Megiddo Prison on March 22, 2025.

The case of the child martyr Walid Ahmed was the most prominent, due to the magnitude of the complex crime he was subjected to in Megiddo Prison, which took place in stages, starting with his arrest and detention in difficult and tragic conditions, and later his infection with scabies, and his exposure to the crime of starvation, which was the main reason for his martyrdom, according to a medical report.

She stated that Megiddo prison is one of the most prominent prisons that witnessed an intensive volume of crimes since the genocide. What has increased the severity of the suffering of the prisoners, including children, is the continued spread of scabies, which today constitutes a health disaster. It is worth noting that the disease still looms over some prisons, including the Negev prison. Among nine prisoners who are visited, eight are infected with scabies. Some of those who recovered were infected again with the disease, which portends an ongoing health disaster that may lead to the martyrdom of more of them.

Throughout March, the institutions conducted dozens of visits to prisons, which reflected the level of organized and ongoing crimes, unprecedented in their scope since the beginning of the genocide. They pointed to what they documented in the Negev and Ofer prisons, regarding the use of rubber bullets by repression units, firing them directly at the feet of prisoners, and obtaining testimony from one of the children in Ofer prison, who clearly stated that the repression units threatened to fire rubber bullets at children.

The report also documented dozens of raids carried out by heavily armed repression units, during which extensive searches were conducted, prisoners were severely beaten, and entire sections were transferred to other sections. The transfers were accompanied by physical assaults that resulted in injuries among the prisoners.

Regarding the issue of Gaza detainees, the scale and pace of systematic crimes and the harsh and terrifying detention conditions through which the occupation prison administration aims to kill more detainees have not changed. Prisoners’ institutions have published testimonies of detainees who were visited in the prisons and camps where Gaza detainees are held. Scabies has once again dominated their testimonies, and there is a lack of any factors that might contribute to their treatment or limit the spread of the disease. In addition, the institutions obtained testimonies from Gaza detainees in the Negev prison, stating that they were forced to relieve themselves in (barrels and containers), and that everything was turned into a tool for torture, including illness, injuries, restrictions, and their basic needs. Various forms of assault against them continued, including: ghosting operations, and forcing them to sit in harmful and painful positions as a tool of (punishment), in addition to the severe restrictions imposed on their visits and the accompanying threats.

As for medical crimes, the majority of prisoners suffer from at least one health problem due to the conditions of detention. Even detainees who were arrested while healthy became ill due to the harsh conditions of detention, most notably: the crime of starvation, the spread of diseases and epidemics, and severe beatings that led to fractures in their bodies. This is in addition to the severe psychological effects that appeared in many of them as a result of collective and solitary confinement. She pointed out that dozens of leaders of the prisoner movement have continued to be isolated in solitary confinement cells since the beginning of the genocide until today, accompanied by systematic transfers and repeated attacks. The isolation operations have been concentrated in the prisons of Megiddo and Rimon.

She said that the Israeli prison administration continues to systematically restrict visits by legal teams to prisoners, by imposing a high level of supervision during the visit, in addition to setting visit dates for distant periods of time, pointing to the great difficulties that institutions face in completing visits to the prisons (Nafha and Rimon), as there is deliberate procrastination by the Israeli prison administration in setting dates for visits to prisoners, and the severity of this problem has recently worsened, in addition to the fact that the prison system has prevented many lawyers from visits, and it continues the policy of humiliation against detainees when they are transferred for visits, as many of them refrain from providing any information for fear of being subjected to abuse after the visit, as happened with dozens of them over the past months.

She stressed that the time factor is today the basis that affects the fate of thousands of prisoners in the occupation prisons, if the level of crimes continues with the same approach, noting that since the beginning of the genocide, (63) prisoners and detainees were martyred in the Israeli occupation prisons, the last of whom was the child Walid Ahmed, and this data includes only the martyrs whose identities are known, noting that there are dozens of detainees in Gaza whose identities the occupation continues to conceal, within the framework of the continuation of the crime of enforced disappearance, noting that the number of martyr prisoners since 1967 has reached 300 martyrs, and they are the only ones whose identities are known.

Regarding the total number of prisoners in the occupation prisons until the beginning of April, the number of prisoners and detainees in the occupation prisons reached more than 9,900, the number of administrative detainees (3,498), at least (400) children, and (27) female prisoners. The number of those classified by the occupation prison administration from the Gaza detainees (as illegal combatants) who were recognized by the occupation prison administration is (1,747), noting that this data does not include all the detainees in Gaza, specifically those in the camps affiliated with the occupation army.

The total number of prisoners in the occupation prisons before the war of extermination was more than (5250), the number of female prisoners was (40), while the number of children in prisons was (170), and the number of administrators was about (1320).