Palestinian Children in Israeli Prisons

[April 2025]. A record number of Palestinian children were held in Israeli military detention at the end of 2025, and a record proportion of these children were held without charge. This visual summarizes what they experience.

Israel continues to hold more than 9,000 Palestinians in torturous and inhumane conditions of military detention. Every year, hundreds of Palestinian children are taken from their families by Israeli forces with no reason given, interrogated without a family member present, beaten, strip searched, held without charge, placed in solitary confinement (i.e. psychological torture), and subjected to other cruel treatment, in violation of international law and the fundamental rights of the child. 

#FreeTheChildren, a coalition-based initiative, is raising awareness of the systematic abuses Palestinian children face in Israel’s military detention system, and the trauma children carry long after release. To hear the testimonies of released children and the suffering they endured.