“Israel’s Secret Detention System Exposed — 9,000 Palestinians Held Without Trial | Democracy Now!”
October 22, 2025
Over 9,000 Palestinians remain behind bars — most without charge, trial, or evidence.
Held under “administrative detention,” they are imprisoned on secret accusations their lawyers can’t even see.
This isn’t justice. It’s a system built on control, humiliation, and impunity.
What about the ceasefire deal?
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English Script:
Sari Bashi: It’s not only men. It’s also women and children. Even after having released almost 2000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9000 Palestinians in what it calls security prisoners or detainees. Only about 1000 of them have actually been convicted of any crime. The vast majority of people being held are being held without trial, either in what’s called administrative detention for the West Bank or the Unlawful Combatants law for folks from Gaza. That means that there’s no allegation that they’ve committed a crime. They’re being held on a charge of dangerousness that is backed by secret evidence that neither they nor their lawyers can either see or challenge. It is an arbitrary system in which every day, including yesterday, the Israeli military is rounding up more and more Palestinians in the West from the West Bank now, and just refilling those detention and prison cells where people are subject to serious abuse. For the last two years, at the request of Israel, Israel’s police minister, the conditions that were already bad for Palestinian prisoners have been worsened. Food rations have been reduced. Israel has unlawfully suspended both family visits, as well as visits by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which is supposed to ensure humane treatment. And there have been persistent credit and systematic reports of rape, starvation and torture. People are coming out of those prisons badly malnourished with scabies. Dozens have died in detention. There has been no accountability, no investigations, and that needs to change for the 9000 people who are still being held.
