Life Beneath the Zionist Carceral State

On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, we examine the daily machinery of control that governs life in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem—checkpoints, raids, arrests, and a prison system designed to crush Palestinian resistance. From children prosecuted in military courts to detainees held for years without charge, this piece exposes the inner workings of “Israel’s” carceral regime and the stories of those who endure it. Read how imprisonment functions not as a response to crime—but as a tool of colonization.