https://www.btselem.org/administrative_detention/statisticsAt the end of September 2023, the Israel Prison Service (IPS) was holding 1,310 Palestinians in administrative detention. Also, in some cases, the military holds administrative detainees, usually for short periods of time, until there is room for them in an IPS facility.
At the end of 2020, the IPS adopted a new policy and stopped providing B'Tselem with the requested figures. Instead, it has since published some data on the IPS website every three months. The first year this occurred (July 2020 through September 2021), the figures published were partial and therefore are not included here. The figures from the military are received with a significant time delay and provide no details regarding inmates’ legal standing.
The following figures were provided or published by the military and the IPS, so responsibility for their accuracy lies with them.
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Administrative detainees by duration in custody
* The diagrams above show the number of administrative detainees on a given day in December of each year, according to figures we received for that day, as detailed in the tables below. We do not have figures available for the overall number of administrative detainees in a given month.
2023 - Administrative detainees – Palestinians, Israeli citizens and foreign nationals – held by the IPS and the military*
Month IDF IPS Date of Statistics Total Minors aged 14 to 16 Minors aged 16 to 18 Sept * 1,326 (1,310) 0 23 30 Sept Aug * 1,260 (1,244) 0 22 31 Aug July * 1,208 (1,190) 0 23 31 July June 65 1,131 (1,117) 0 18 30 June May 45 1,074 (1,064) 0 16 31 May April 17 1,011 (997) 0 14 30 April March 54 1,017 (1,002) 0 10 31 March Feb. 49 958 (945) 0 7 28 Feb. Jan. 50 916 (906) 0 6 31 Jan. Administrative detainees by duration in custody
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0 0 0 3 8 12 Minors Sept 31 September 2023 3 29 202 405 291 373 Adults 0 0 1 * 7 10 Minors 30 June June 2023 3 22 170 373 271 274 Adults 0 0 0 1 2 7 Minors 31 March March 2023 3 12 86 347 200 359 Adults 0 0 0 1 1 5 Minors 31 Dec. Dec. 2022 2 20 88 282 221 250 Adults 0 0 0 0 4 3 Minors 30 Sept. Sept. 2022 0 10 82 160 243 296 Adults 0 0 0 0 0 5 Minors 30 June June 2022 0 11 68 144 119 299 Adults 0 0 0 1 1 0 Minors 31 March March 2022 0 6 66 145 92 200 Adults 0 0 0 2 2 1 Minors 31 Dec. Dec. 2021 1 5 90 153 94 149 Adults 0 0 0 1 2 3 Minors 31 Sept. Sept. 2021 1 8 51 142 148 136 Adults 0 0 0 1 3 2 Minors 30 Aug. Aug. 2021 1 15 61 155 167 110 Adults 0 0 0 1 5 2 Minors 31 July July 2021 1 19 68 160 179 91 Adults
