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IDF soldiers deploy during a military operation at the Jalazun camp for Palestinian refugees north of Ramallah in the West Bank on October 14, 2026. (Zain JAAFAR/AFP)
October 14, 2026, 11:43 pm
IDF, Shin Bet raid two West Bank charities they say were fronts for terror groups
Security forces say groups raise money for PFLP, provide legal aid for terrorists; settlers reportedly set fire to mosque and car in West Bank village
By ToI Staff and Nurit Yohanan
US President Donald Trump, right, listens during a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the State Dining Room of the White House, September 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
October 6, 2026, 7:42 am
‘You want to call Trump, Bibi?’: How incoming US president’s wrath was leveraged to close hostage deal
Top Biden aide’s new book reveals dramatic 11th-hour talks before January 2025 agreement as well as outgoing president’s desire to give final speech rebuking his party’s anti-Israel direction
By Jacob Magid
Screen capture from video of Palestinian prisoners seen during a video filmed when National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visited the Ofer Prison on February 13, 2026. (X)
September 28, 2026, 2:16 pm
High Court gives government 2 weeks to specify terms for Red Cross visits to detainees
Court ruled in June that ban on visits to Palestinian security detainees was unlawful, but visits have yet to resume, while the Prison Service has sought new restrictions
By Jeremy Sharon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a press conference in Tel Aviv on July 13, 2024, during the ongoing war in Gaza between Israel and the Hamas terror group. (Nir Elias / Pool / AFP)
September 27, 2026, 2:31 pm
Netanyahu’s narrative of ignorance on October 7 is rapidly unraveling
New reports detailing warnings conveyed by Egypt and the UAE before the massacre shatter PM’s claim the security establishment kept him in the dark; if anything, it was the other way around
By Amir Bar Shalom
Illustrative: The Ketziot Detention Camp in the Negev desert on September 13, 2022. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)
September 1, 2026, 8:19 pm
12 guards charged with reckless homicide for fatally beating Palestinian security prisoner
Thaer Abu Asab, jailed since 2005 over terror attack, died in Ketziot Prison in November 2023; senior officer accused of ordering violent assault that caused cardiac arrest
By Jeremy Sharon
Female Palestinian security prisoners seen in a video published August 30, 2026 by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who visited them at the Damon security prison in northern Israel. (Itamar Ben Gvir)
August 30, 2026, 2:38 pm
Ben Gvir posts video mocking Palestinian female inmates’ complaints about conditions
As prisoner who says she is from Islamic Jihad laments poor access to water for bathing, medical supplies, national security minister says she and her colleagues have it better than Israeli hostages did in Gaza
By Noam Lehmann and AFP
IDF troops assemble at the Ofer military prison complex, between Ramallah and Beitunia in the West Bank, before releasing Palestinian prisoners as part of a hostage-prisoner exchange on February 15, 2025. (Zain Jaafar / AFP)
August 13, 2026, 10:25 am
Palestinian journalist Mohammed Awad detained by IDF in West Bank, family says
Military doesn’t comment; Palestinian groups say number of detained journalists now 40, pan ‘systematic policy of targeting Palestinian journalists’
By AFP and ToI Staff
The Israel Prison Service dresses Palestinian prisoners set for release in shirts featuring its logo, a Star of David and the sentence in Arabic: 'We will not forget or forgive,' February 15, 2025. (Israel Prison Service)
July 21, 2026, 10:23 am
Over a dozen Western embassies call for changes to Israel’s incarceration policies
Embassies pan ‘systematic abuse’ of Palestinians in prisons, call for Israel to reinstate Red Cross visits, and express concern for detained Gaza hospital chief who is Hamas officer
By Lazar Berman and AFP
US President Donald Trump (left) greets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a summit on Gaza in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh on October 13, 2025. (Evan Vucci / POOL / AFP)
July 19, 2026, 5:19 pm
US claims PA’s prisoner payments reform a con, dismissing audit that suggested otherwise
While external review found welfare payments now conditioned on financial status instead of prison sentence, State Department says it didn’t examine ‘clandestine bypass channels’
By Jacob Magid
A guard grasps the hands of a cuffed prisoner through a door slot at the Givon Prison in Ramle on January 11, 2026. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)
July 19, 2026, 11:16 am
With Ben Gvir’s backing, prison guards quietly branding domestic criminals as terrorists
Public defenders alarmed over uptick in Arab inmates being moved to squalid security wings where they serve alongside terror prisoners, based on questionable misconduct allegations
By Charlie Summers
Demonstrators gather with placards bearing portraits of Palestinians currently detained by Israel, during a protest in solidarity with them in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 7, 2026. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)
July 10, 2026, 10:22 pm
PA says external audit proves payments incentivizing attacks on Israelis have ended
Ramallah hoping results of external review will grant legitimacy to welfare reform long demanded by international community and will lead Trump administration to conduct similar assessment
By Jacob Magid
Mujahed Bani Mufleh lies in a hospital bed where he is receiving treatment after being released from Israeli jail, July 8, 2026. (JOHN WESSELS/AFP)
July 9, 2026, 11:09 am
Israeli jails a ‘graveyard,’ says freed Palestinian journalist
Mujahed Bani Mufleh was imprisoned for incitement, but never charged; separately, Israel denies detained Gaza hospital chief and Hamas officer in ‘life-threatening’ condition
By AFP and Jeremy Sharon
This photo circulated on social media on June 30, 2026, shows a bound and blindfolded suspect in IDF custody. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 2, 2026, 8:00 pm
IDF says it tracked down troops who blindfolded suspect and bound him to cot
Man in photo that circulated on social media is reportedly a Gazan terror suspect who crossed Yellow Line and was detained by IDF several weeks ago
By Emanuel Fabian
Gazan detainees seen in a courtyard in a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 9, 2026, 10:26 pm
Comptroller: Prison overcrowding has harmed Shin Bet, delayed Oct. 7 terror trials
Watchdog’s report says state was unprepared to absorb influx of thousands of detainees during war, which led to the release of several high-level security prisoners back to Gaza
By Ethan Rubinson
A vehicle of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) arrives outside Ofer military prison, located between Ramallah and Beitunia in the West Bank, on January 19, 2025. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
June 3, 2026, 11:33 pm
High Court annuls government ban on Red Cross visits for Palestinian security prisoners
Court unanimously rules state must allow for visits, doesn’t give timeframe; government has justified ban by comparing conditions of Israeli hostages in Gaza, though none remain
By Jeremy Sharon
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