A Palestinian prisoners' advocacy group says the Israel Prison Service has imposed new restrictions on lawyers of Palestinian prisoners.

A Palestinian prisoners’ advocacy group says the Israel Prison Service (IPS) is deliberately infecting Palestinian prisoners, and denying them treatment.

Israeli guards shaved part of a Palestinian abductees’ hair and drew the Star of David on his head before his release, in what Palestinian resistance group Hamas said exposes Israel’s “systematic brutality” against Palestinians held illegally in detention.

An investigation has disclosed that a quarter of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention centers have been infected with scabies in recent months.

Two Palestinian prisoners from the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip have died in Israeli custody, a pair of Palestinian prisoners' rights groups say.

Hamas has condemned Israel's torture and humiliation of Palestinian detainees in Megiddo Prison, calling on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to document  such crimes.

A former Palestinian prisoner has been diagnosed with leukemia only a week after his release from an Israeli prison.