Israel gives Red Cross detainee list, first since Oct. 7, paper says

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is updating detainees’ families after Israeli authorities gave it “a list of names of people held in Israeli detention facilities,” the Times of Israel reported on Oct. 25. The paper said it covers Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza and is the first since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.

The report gave no number. The Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared puts it at more than 8,000, including 828 from Gaza. The center said Red Cross calls showed that the families of 127 of those Gaza prisoners had not known they were alive.

The center says the list “reflects an incomplete and deficient record.” By its count, more than 7,000 people remain missing in Gaza; an estimated 2,500 to 3,000 are suspected of having been forcibly disappeared.

Israel stopped sharing the lists and halted ICRC prison visits after the attack, the Associated Press reported. On June 3, 2026, Israel’s High Court ordered the state to resume cooperation with the ICRC, according to Israeli rights group HaMoked. Visits have not resumed. “We hope that we will resume in the near future,” ICRC spokesperson Gilad Grossman told the AP.

Our teams are in contact with the detainees' families and are updating them on the matter.— ICRC, as quoted by the Times of Israel