Press Releases

Israeli police issued 77,000 tickets with fines amounting to tens of millions of shekels to individuals – without legal authority. Unclear regulations led to selective enforcement of rules, which...

UN Special Rapporteur Prof. Michael Lynk highlights Israel’s illegal policies and practices of collective punishment targeting the Palestinian people.

Israel’s top court rejects Adalah petition demanding Israel implement COVID-19 protective guidelines for prisoners at Gilboa prison; 30 prison guards and 7 prisoners are infected while 489 guards...

Israel left Palestinian communities exposed to pandemic through substandard protection and limited access to testing, emergency medical services, and social welfare benefits – particularly in...

Ban stipulates only specific Knesset members authorized by Israel’s internal security minister may visit Palestinian ‘security prisoners’; ban violates MKs' immunity and parliamentary rights.

Total number of exits via Erez Crossing in June dropped sharply to 218, just one percent compared to the total exits recorded in February.

Adalah: Newly-amended law yet another steep plunge down a slippery slope. There is real danger that further such steps will lead to total tyranny at the hands of the Israeli government.

Bill disproportionately violates the fundamental constitutional rights of prisoners and detainees being held by Israel.

Justices insist petition is too 'theoretical' for them to consider; Adalah: people are facing immediate danger to life and health.

Legislation lets government declare a state of emergency and enact associated regulations – potentially entailing extreme restrictions on basic rights in all spheres of life – with ineffective...

Palestinians in Gaza who need to pass through the checkpoint – including patients in need of critical medical treatment that is not available in Gaza – have no official mechanism through which...

UN experts: Annexation would be crystallization of already unjust reality: two peoples living in same space, ruled by same state, but with profoundly unequal rights; Adalah and partners: UN and...

Israeli military industries plans to move massive Ramat Beka testing facility, an area the size of Haifa and Tel Aviv combined, to Naqab (Negev); 2,113 Bedouin homes and other buildings facing...

Israel's Water Authority automatically charges Bedouin higher rates – treating them as if they are wasting water – when they actually have most limited access to water; Adalah & partners are...

Beer Sheva Magistrates Court to hold first hearing on 27 April 2021 as Israel Land Authority seeks to forcibly displace Bedouin families from Ras Jrabah in order to expand the primarily-Jewish city...

Israel refuses to classify camels as 'farm animals', preventing Bedouin herders from enjoying grazing rights in Naqab desert region; camels are only variety of livestock Israel requires to be...

Adalah, JLAC, and Al Mezan petitioned against 2017 law; Adalah: This is significant achievement against Israel's threatened impending annexation of parts of West Bank; nothing justifies war crimes.

Significant increase in Israeli state funds comes in wake of Adalah petition demanding equitable budgets for Arab municipalities; gov't originally allocated just 1.7% of aid to Arab local...

Adalah will continue to fight against Israel's perpetual state of emergency and its systematic violation of Palestinian rights and its devastating impact on human rights in general.

2003 Citizenship Law – one of one of the country's most discriminatory laws targeting Palestinian families – is a racist violation of the fundamental constitutional rights to equality and the...