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Prisoners in Israeli custody

Corrections and notes

We edit published posts only to correct factual errors. Errors we found while compiling this file are corrected in the text and listed below.

Corrections

  1. Part 1, card 6. Published on X: “Israel’s Public Defender’s Office found that at the end of 2024, about 3,200 ‘security’ prisoners slept without a bed.” Should read: “According to the Public Defender’s report for 2023–2024, 3,200 ‘security’ prisoners slept on mattresses, without a bed.”
  2. Part 2, card 3. Published: “A lawyer at Israel’s National Security Ministry gave the September 2026 figure, saying the number had stabilized and new construction would add room for about 3,000 more by late 2026 and early 2027.” Should read: “A lawyer at Israel’s National Security Ministry gave the September 2026 figure, saying the number had stabilized and construction steps were expected to add room for about 3,000 more by late 2026 and early 2027.”
  3. Part 3, caption. Published in the post text, and in nearly the same words on X: “In April 2026, ruling on a contempt motion by two Israeli rights groups, Israel’s High Court found insufficient basis to prove a systemic violation, but said all ‘security’ prisoners, not only the underweight, must be able to get extra food on request.” Should read: “There were two decisions, not one. On March 28, 2026, Haaretz reported a decision by Israel’s High Court that the Israel Prison Service must provide enough food to all ‘security’ prisoners, not only to the underweight. On April 23, 2026, Arutz Sheva reported the court’s decision on the contempt motion: no ‘sufficient basis to prove a systemic violation’ of the ruling had been laid; the duty to provide enough food applies to all ‘security’ prisoners; individual prisoners’ claims are to be heard in personal petitions; and extra food is allowed ‘when the need for it arises.’ The published text was right to date that principle to April, but it left out the March decision, which states the same principle. ‘On request’ has support: the report allows extra food ‘when the need for it arises,’ and its subheadline says each prisoner must be able to get extra food according to his request.”

Notes on what we published

  1. Part 3. The English text published with this part left out that the duty to provide enough food covers all “security” prisoners, and said only that they “must be able to get extra food on request.” The same omission appeared in posts published with this part on X, in English and in Arabic.
  2. Part 5. The Israel Prison Service’s response to the solitary-confinement figures (“distort reality”) was published as The New Arab and Middle East Eye reported it. Haaretz, which reported it first, is behind a paywall, and we did not read the response in full there, so it is not repeated in the text.
  3. Part 6. On the death penalty law, the source does not make clear whether the authorities’ response of May 24, 2026, answered the May 19 request or the petition itself. Ynet wrote on Sept. 20, 2026, that the attorney general had not responded to the petitions.
  4. Part 8. The text published alongside the figures on army investigations said most of these deaths occurred “inside military detention facilities with cameras and witnesses.” We did not have the exact wording of this sentence from the Haaretz report (July 2026) it was attributed to, so it is not repeated in the text.
  5. Part 8. In the count by place of death, the 94 cases from official data are the 98 minus the four deaths +972 Magazine added later.
  6. Part 9. In his testimony, Sami Khalili says he was arrested on Feb. 10, 2003, and sentenced to 22 years, and that his sentence ended on Feb. 8, 2024, which is about 21 years later. We give both dates as they appear in the testimony.
  7. Part 9. We published that he “was released in February 2024 when his sentence ended.” His testimony gives Feb. 8, 2024, as the day his sentence ended and says he was released at the beginning of February, without giving the exact date of release.

Method and photos

  1. On method. Every sentence in this file rests on a published source we read before the part was published; the sources and links are on the preceding pages. Where two sources differ on a number or a date, we note the discrepancy where it arises rather than choose between them. A serious event reported by only one source is attributed to that source in the same sentence.
  2. On the photos. The photos on the three photo pages come from the Activestills archive and are used with permission; each page carries the agreed credit lines. Photo pages have no headline or caption, and the people in the photos are not the people named in the surrounding text.