Putting medical personnel at the forefront of the struggle & the defense of the right to health.

The Prisoners & Detainees Department works to protect physical & mental integrity of inmates in Israeli prisons, confronting structural faults undermining their right to health. It struggles the use of detention & arrest in a policy of oppression & control.

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Release the 14 Gaza Doctors
10.05.2026
Online International Conference on Alternatives to Solitary Confinement
Death Sentence for Palestinians in Custody | New Report and Testimonies
Torture of Medical Staff from Gaza in Israel • Report and Testimonies
26.02.2025
Gaza Needs its Doctors | An Urgent Appeal
12.02.2025
Sde Teiman and Beyond – a Dive into Israel’s Detention of Palestinians in the Shadow of War [Webinar]
02.07.2024
Shut Down the Sde Teiman Facility Now
18.04.2024
Death in Israeli Prisons | Report
27.03.2024
Sexual & Gender-Based Violence Committed by Israeli Military & Security Forces against Palestinians in Israeli Prisons
07.03.2024
Systematic Violation of Human Rights: The Incarceration Conditions of Palestinians in Israel Since October 7 | Report
Six Palestinians Die in Israeli Custody
05.12.2023
Following the Abuse of Palestinian Prisoners by the Israeli Security Service, we Turned to International Authorities
26.10.2023
An Opportunity the High Court of Justice Failed to Seize
14.08.2023
Human Rights Violations Resulted in Khader Adnan’s Death
04.05.2023
Palestinian Hunger Striker Khader Adnan Dies in Israeli Prison
02.05.2023
Escalation in Violations of Palestinian Prisoners’ Rights
05.03.2023
Joint urgent call for the release of Khalil Awawdeh
15.08.2022
These Days While the Country is Burning
12.05.2021
Ongoing Campaign Bears Fruit
28.12.2020
5 Human Rights Groups Petition against Minister of Public Security Ohana’s Refusal to Vaccinate Prisoners
10.01.2021
International Legal Experts and Healthcare Workers Turn to IMA to Save Al-Akhras
05.11.2020
PHRI calls on the Israeli Medical Association: “Intervene to have hunger striker Maher al-Akhras moved from Kaplan Medical Center to al-Makassed Hospital to save his life”
02.11.2020
Israel & Palestinian Human Rights Organizations: Release Maher al-Akhras Immediately
21.10.2020
World Hepatitis Day 2020 | The Case of Israeli Prisons
28.07.2020
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Human Rights Organizations: Proposed legislation to prevent coronavirus outbreak may violate prisoners’ rights
21.06.2020
A Substantial Achievement in Promoting Prisoners Right to Health
16.06.2020
Health Remanded to Custody – The Future of Israel Prisons’ Health Care System
12.04.2020
Urgent HCJ Petition for Directives on Medical Care for Inmates amid Corona Crisis
26.03.2020
6 Human Rights Organizations Call for Release of Prisoners amid Corona Crisis
26.03.2020
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IPS delays eye care for Palestinian prisoner for more than a year
19.03.2020
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International Human Rights Day 2019 – The Right To Health
10.12.2019
Samer Arabeed
Senior Physicians to Hadassah Management: Don’t Release Samer Arbid into Continued ISA Interrogation
07.10.2019
Samer Arabeed
Hadassah MS Hospital Refuses to Provide Information to the Relatives of Samer Arabeed
Exclude Yigal Amir From Isolation
27.08.2019
Inmate Privacy During When Visited by a Physician | Position Paper
22.08.2019
Court to Israel Prison Service (IPS): Reconsider Your Refusal to Publish Reviews on the Medical Unit
23.06.2019
Ofer military prison
IPS Failures in Care of Hepatitis C | Report
29.07.2018
Cells Exposed to Cold & Rain in Shata Prison
14.12.2017
דרישה משב”ס: פרסם את תקציב ונהלי מערך הרפואה
12.12.2017
Discriminatory Detention Policy towards Asylum Seekers | 2011
01.06.2011
Justice Ministry Report Criticizes Incarceration Conditions
01.09.2017
PHRI’s Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review
12.07.2017
Treatment of Hunger Strikers in Mass Strike Raises Concern
17.05.2017
MOH Directives on Hunger Strike Violate Medical Ethics
07.05.2017
Inhumane Israeli Prisons Conditions | A 2012 Position Paper
19.07.2012
Prison Oversight and Transparency | A 2008 PHRI Report
29.02.2008
2011 Report on Prisoner and Detainee Solitary Confinement
16.06.2011
The Sounds of Silence | A 2008 Solitary Confinement Report
10.07.2008
Release hunger strikers at imminent risk of death
15.12.2016
PHRI concerned by treatment of hunger strikers
12.12.2016
Call: Release Hunger Strikers at imminent risk of Death
19.09.2016
High Court ruling tramples over medical ethics
11.09.2016
Hunger Striker Bilal Kayed Appeals to the Supreme Court
17.08.2016
NGO’s Concerned by Recent Court Decision regarding Bilal Kayed
17.08.2016
Palestinian & Israeli NGO’s call for Kayed’s immediate release
27.07.2016
PHRI to Court: Order Release of Hunger Striker from Shackling
24.07.2016
IPS’ Budget Leaves Prisoners without Healthcare
13.07.2016
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture 2016
26.06.2016
UN Committee Against Torture Recommends 50+ Measures to Israel
17.05.2016
UN Committee against Torture reviews Israel
08.05.2016
Joint statement on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 2016
17.04.2016
Politics of Punishment | 2016 Report on Solitary Confinement
16.03.2016
Coercive treatment on hospitalized hunger striker Al-Qeeq
20.01.2016
Hunger striker, Muhammad Allan, lost consciousness
14.08.2015
UN Statement on Forced Feeding Law
09.08.2015
Fact Sheet on Forced Feeding
06.08.2015
Forced Feeding Bill Approved: befits dark regimes
30.07.2015
Force Feeding Law | Essential Information Fact Sheet
27.07.2015
Knesset to vote on forced feeding
06.07.2015
Joint Statement in Support of Victims of Torture
26.06.2015
Khader Adnan, the hunger striker, faces danger of death
24.06.2015
Abuses of Palestinian Inmates During the 2012 Hunger Strike
04.05.2017
Administrative detention of PLC member Khalida Jarrar
07.04.2015
Torture complaints has been multiplied by four in two years
26.02.2015
Nahar Al-Saadi held in solitary confinement for over 570 day
15.12.2014
H.R Org’s briefing paper to provide information to the EU
02.11.2014
UN special rapporteurs in statement on torture in Israel
30.06.2014
NGO Statement Marking the United Nations International Day
26.06.2014
Petition against exploiting the medical profession for politic
22.06.2014
H.R org’s pressure physicians to refuse to forced feeding
18.06.2014
Urgent appeal to save Moayad Sharab’s life
18.06.2014
Ministry of Health joins PM Netanyahu in Draconian Policy
11.06.2014
Netanyahu threatens to force-feed hunger striking prisoners
09.06.2014
Hunger Strike Enter its 40th Day with 70 Already Hospitalized
09.06.2014
Palestinian prisoner’s hunger strike reaches its 41th day
04.06.2014
Call for Intervention as the Hunger Stike Enters its 36th Day
01.06.2014
Urgent Intervention-risk of bill turning into law | 11/06/2014
11.06.2014
PHR-IL call for Catherine Ashton in behalf the hunger strikers
01.06.2014
PHR-IL deliver a letter to the UN supporting hunger strikers
26.05.2014
Death, and Interrogation of Amjad a-Safdi
01.05.2014