Press Releases

Adalah filed a petition to Israel’s Supreme Court on behalf the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, the Follow-Up Committee on Arab Education, the National Committee of Arab...

Following reports that the Defense Minister reversed his decision, Minister Katz reaffirms his commitment and proclaims his policy of granting settlers immunity from administrative detention...

The government is advancing a plan to allocate land to so-called "settlement nuclei" in new towns in the Naqab, effectively ensuring that these towns will be exclusively Jewish....

On 8 August 2024, Israeli Government Decision No. 1677 came into effect, transferring the National Unit for Enforcing Planning and Construction Laws from the purview of the Ministry of Finance to...

Following a Supreme Court order, the Israel Prison Service and Shin Bet submitted a summary of their positions presented ex parte in the petition filed by MK Ahmad Tibi and Adalah against Minister...

Today, 19 November 2024, the Israeli Knesset passed a law targeting the rights of children and their families, revoking welfare benefits from parents of minors convicted of security offenses deemed...

In June 2024, the Be’er Sheva Magistrate's Court upheld the ILA’s plan to evict over 500 residents of Al-Bqea’ah, citizens of Israel, despite recognizing that they have lived on and used the...

On 27 October 2024, ahead of a discussion in the Knesset’s Economic Committee on a proposed amendment to the Negev Development Authority (NDA) Law (1991), which seeks to extends the...

The Southern District Planning Committee approved a plan to double the size of Dimona, encroaching on Ras Jrabah, home to over 500 Bedouin residents. The committee rejected an objection filed by...

The Israeli military government already displaced the residents of Umm Badoun in the 1950s when they were moved to the villages’ current location. Today, they face renewed eviction threats as...

Newly passed laws grant the state the authority to deport Palestinian families - both citizens of Israel and residents of occupied East Jerusalem - linked to “terrorist operatives” and impose...

Adalah: The Knesset has nearly unanimously passed two laws aimed at dismantling UNRWA, in a deliberate attempt to strip over 2.5 million Palestinian refugees of their status and their right of...

In a letter to Israeli authorities, Adalah warns that the bills pose a grave threat to the UN relief agency in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and violate various international...

Adalah’s new briefing paper outlines a troubling wave of new discriminatory legislation targeting Palestinians, detailing key bills in advanced stages of the legislative process.

Adalah: The ruling embodies a deeply racist ideology, weighing the right of the deceased and their families to a dignified burial against the so-called interests of the Jewish people, as dictated...

Pending district court orders mandate Bedouin residents to demolish their homes and evacuate Ras Jrabah by the end of 2024, to expand Dimona, a Jewish city built on their ancestral land. The 500...

In its review of Israel, the UN Children’s Rights Committee called for urgent actions by Israel to: Address the ongoing violence in Gaza, imploring Israel to comply with the ICJ’s provisional...

In a meeting in East Jerusalem, the objectors stressed existing plans violate international law and property rights of Palestinian landowners, including a number of US citizens who retain their...

Adalah: The Energy Ministry effectively uses Israel’s ongoing illegal occupation to justify denying the sovereign rights of the Palestinian people. The ICJ’s advisory opinion, which found that...

Monday night, the Maki Haifa Branch was shut down by the police for an event that included a screening of Mohammed Bakri’s new film. Bakri’s earlier film, Jenin, Jenin, was banned by an Israeli...