According to data provided by the Israel Prison Service (IPS), as of August 2015 there are 5,625 “security” inmates incarcerated in state prisons: 3,696 sentenced prisoners, 1,585 remand detainees, and 344 administrative detainees being held indefinitely without charges having been filed against them (such administrative orders are renewable every six months without need for justification by the authorities).

These figures include a handful of Jewish prisoners (such as Yigal Amir), and a vast majority of Palestinian detainees – residents of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), permanent residents of East Jerusalem, and Palestinians who are Israeli citizens. The figures include all “security inmates” in prisons under the IPS jurisdiction, among them the Ofer Prison situated in the occupied West Bank.