Press Releases

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...

The petition, filed on behalf of 204 residents, argues that the Israeli authorities' failure to provide a continuous and adequate water supply undermines the petitioners' right to health, as well...

The decision was issued over two years after the appeal, following a Supreme Court petition by the deceased’s family. It did not address allegations that the police conducted a negligent and...

On 19 July 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its advisory opinion on the legal consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian...

Gaza, Haifa, 16 July 2024 — Today marks exactly 10 years since the killing of four Palestinian children from the Bakr family – Ahed (9 years), Zakaria (10 years), Mohammed (11 years),...

Since the end of May alone, at least 34 protesters have been arrested for taking part in peaceful Palestinian protests against Israel's brutal assault on Gaza.

Following a hearing held yesterday (Monday, 8 July 2024), the Supreme Court issued an order nisi, today (9 July 2024), in relation to nine petitions filed to it against the Citizenship and Entry...

Adalah: Muhammad Jabareen's case demonstrates the state’s a broader, discriminatory and severe policy of prolonged detention for Palestinian citizens’ and residents’ alleged speech-related...

The petition, filed by Adalah and the Arab High Follow-Up Committee, argues that the amendment violates fundamental principles of the rule of law and is aimed to increase racist law enforcement...

Following a hearing held yesterday (Thursday, 13 June) on a petition filed by Adalah on behalf of the family of the late Walid Daqqa, whose body has been withheld by Israeli authorities since his...

The State submitted an update to the court ahead of tomorrow's Supreme Court hearing (13 June) on the petition of Walid Daqqa's family, whose body has been held without authority for over two months.

Adalah: “Since 7 October, the police have been unlawfully arresting Palestinian citizens of Israel on the pretext of allegations of conduct ‘liable to breach the public peace’. This...