Refers to Palestinian prisoners from the Occupied Palestinian Territories who are tried by Israel. These prisoners are tried by Israeli military courts based in the Territories, while most detention centers are located within Israel’s 1948 borders. While Israel maintains that those in detention either pose a threat to Israel’s security or have committed a crime against Israel’s population, Palestinian rights groups and others claim that a majority of Palestinian prisoners are political prisoners (including those who organize nonviolent demonstrations), or held for negligible acts such as stone-throwing. Prisoner swaps are common in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. During the Second Intifada (2000 to about 2008), Israel arrested and detained over 50,000 Palestinians. In August 2011, 5,200 Palestinians were held in Israeli detention centers, including 176 children. Also included in that number are 272 Palestinians held in administrative detention without charge or trial. These numbers were much higher during the Second Intifada. For statistics and information regarding Israeli law and detention procedures for Palestinian prisoners, see “Detainees and Prisoners.” B’Tselem. 3 October 2011. http://www.btselem.org/english/statistics/Detainees_and_Prisoners.asp. For information on Israel’s arrests and detentions of Palestinian organizers of nonviolent demonstrations against the Separation Barrier, see “Joint NGO Submission on Israeli Suppression of Palestinian Human Rights Activism against the Wall.” 4 February 2010. Addameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Association, The Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, and the National Lawyers Guild. 6 July 2011. http://addameer.info/wp-content/images/joint-submission-israeli-suppression-of-palestinian-human-rights-activists.pdf.  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/palestinian-prisoners