🇵🇸 Palestine
9 reports of cannabis enforcement.
Totals add up only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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West Bank drug arrests reach 2,419 in 2026
Palestinian police in the West Bank said they had handled 2,150 drug cases and arrested 2,419 people, including 50 women, since the start of 2026. More than 100 families had reported relatives to the police in the hope of treatment, the police spokesman said.
Palestinian police seize 23 kg of hashish in Jericho
The PA anti-narcotics police seized 230 slabs of hashish weighing 23 kg in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, worth more than 500,000 shekels. Police said the haul was meant for distribution in several governorates and some for smuggling across the border; no arrests were announced in the first statement.
Gaza police seize hashish and cannabis plants in Zeitoun
Gaza's anti-narcotics police raided a home in Zeitoun, south of Gaza City, and seized 21 slabs of hashish, 317 Rotana pills, five marijuana plants, a rifle and ammunition. Two suspects were arrested; the police said drug flows into Gaza had risen since the war.
Palestinian prosecutors handled 1,396 drug cases in 2024
The Palestinian Public Prosecution's 2024 annual report said it opened investigations into 1,396 drug cases and resolved 97% of them. The report covers the areas under PA jurisdiction; Gaza's courts were outside the PA system and largely closed by the war.
Gaza military courts hand down two more drug death sentences
Gaza's military appeal and permanent courts sentenced two men to death and eight to life imprisonment in a batch of drug cases. One man was convicted of repeated trafficking under article 29 of the 2013 drug law; the other of importing drugs for trafficking under article 28.
Gaza court again sentences a drug trafficker to death
Gaza's Supreme Criminal Chamber sentenced a 30-year-old man to death by hanging for possessing and trafficking narcotics to Israel. PCHR called it the first death sentence of 2023 and said the number issued since 1994 had reached 281, including 251 in Gaza.
Gaza court sentences a hashish dealer to death
Gaza's Grand Criminal Court sentenced a man to death by hanging for possessing hashish and 'happy pills' with intent to traffic, a repeat offence. SHAMS said the PA's 2018 drug law did not provide death; PCHR later said Gaza's 2013 law did. It was the first death sentence by that court in a drug case.
Hamas court sentences two drug dealers to death
A Hamas military court in Gaza sentenced two men to death for drug dealing, the first such verdicts since Hamas took power in 2007. One was to be executed by firing squad and the other was sentenced in absentia; the interior ministry said police had seized $2 million of drugs in January, mostly cannabis and narcotics.
Palestinian police uproot 2,000 cannabis saplings in Yasid
Police raided seven greenhouses in the village of Yasid, north of Nablus, and seized more than 2,000 cannabis saplings. Two suspects were arrested after they tried to flee; the raid was part of a West Bank crackdown that also seized 370 plants and 54 kg of dried cannabis in Jenin.
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