Press Releases

Adalah: Israeli Education Minister Yoav Gallant has no legal authority to ban rights groups from schools; his order constitutes illegal violation of right to free expression.

150,000 Palestinian residents of Kufr Aqab and Shu'afat refugee camp live under Israeli rule, but Israel has not established even a single vaccination center in these East Jerusalem neighborhoods.

Court accepts state's claim that delays in enacting ordinary legislation were result of exceptional circumstances of global epidemic and political instability; court refuses to cancel fines issued...

During protest in Nazareth against visit of Israeli PM Netanyahu, Israeli police forces arrested 19 Palestinian citizens of Israel; officers hindered evacuation of two wounded who required urgent...

According to professional sources, prisoners are an at-risk population and action must be taken to vaccinate them in parallel with the at-risk populations at large.

Adalah petitioned against ban in 2018; legitimate need to allow religious Jews to uphold beliefs cannot override fundamental freedoms enjoyed by Arab public, Israeli Jewish secular public, and...

Israeli Public Security Minister Amir Ohana issues directive preventing Palestinians detained by Israel from receiving vaccinations, in violation of mandatory Health Ministry guidelines.

Article 56 of the Fourth Geneva Convention specifies that an occupier must ensure 'the adoption and application of the prophylactic and preventive measures necessary to combat the spread of...

Israeli Supreme Court hearing on petitions against law held 22 December; Adalah: The law's distinct apartheid characteristics guarantee Israel’s ethnic-religious character as exclusively Jewish,...

Exclusive Haaretz coverage reveals: Israeli police require internet and mobile phone providers to grant access to online data of any website or individual user in Israel.

Adalah: Blocking an entire street and limiting freedom of movement for residents of an entire neighborhood under pretense of fighting crime constitutes collective punishment.

Israeli Health Ministry report: Do not allow any staff or student activity in the school until sanitation issue is resolved.

With great grief and sorrow, Adalah staff, management, and board mourn the passing of Mrs. Kamleh Saeed Na’amna (Shamali), the mother of Adalah office manager Fathiyya Hussein. Mrs....

Basing its decision on Article 7 of the law, Israeli magistrate’s court rules Karmiel is ‘Jewish city’ and that Arabic-language schools or funding transport for Arab schoolchildren are liable...

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women: In some 40 percent of murders of Palestinian women citizens of Israel, complaints about incidents of violence had been filed...

Adalah demands Israeli interior minister cancel policy that excludes Bedouin citizens living in unrecognized villages from receiving emergency COVID-19 food stamps.

UN: Between January and October 2020, Israeli forces carried out 42 incursions inside Gaza; Al Mezan, Gisha, Adalah to Israel: Investigate the incursions.

Adalah demands Israeli prison service act immediately to halt continuing spread of virus and to provide sufficient treatment for infected prisoners.

Authorities allege construction and land-use violations, but 2019 plan allows for residential and commercial development, and provides path to retroactive legitimacy for area businesses.

In an unprecedented move, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided to stop issuing visas for foreign nationals employed by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human...