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The Prisoners’ Media Office said Wednesday that 114 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences remain in Israeli jails across various governorates, awaiting their release.

In a statement, the Hamas-affiliated office reported that Hebron has the highest number of life-sentence prisoners, with 28 detainees, followed by Nablus with 21, Ramallah with 17, and 16 prisoners who are Palestinian citizens of Israel. Jenin has nine prisoners serving life terms, Tulkarm seven, Bethlehem four, Jericho three, while Qalqilya and Salfit each have two. Three prisoners from occupied Jerusalem and two from the Gaza Strip also remain imprisoned for life.

The office said each of these prisoners carries “a human story of deprivation”, warning that their conditions are deteriorating as a result of the ongoing state of emergency in Israeli prisons and the escalation of beatings and abuse, particularly against life-sentence detainees and leaders of the prisoner movement.

It noted that prior to the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, 608 Palestinians were serving life sentences. Under the “Flood of the Free” deal, implemented in three stages, 503 of them were released, leaving 114 prisoners serving life terms as of December 2025.

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