Press Releases

Adalah appealed ministry directive in May 2016, demanding Arab students have access to the same benefits and considerations granted to Hebrew-speaking students taking exam.

Adalah still demanding that IPS provide prisoners with full health basket, including preventative treatments, in accordance with rights to life, health and dignity.

The regulation, established without legal authority, will alter reality for hundreds of thousands of workers employed by Israelis already suffering from under-enforcement of labor rights.

Humiliating practices commonly faced by Arab passengers have no basis in Israeli law; Adalah demands halt to all illegal practices, compensation for passengers harmed.

Adalah and Al Mezan: The military's decision not to investigate, made public two years after the attack, demonstrates entrenched impunity and the need for a thorough and credible investigation.

Adalah and Al Mezan filed joint complaints in 27 cases after 2014 Gaza war involving suspicion of grave violations of int'l law; Israel has not probed even one case in accordance with int'l standards.

Israeli government transfers its authority to establish and implement settlement policy to an organization that acts in interests of Jewish citizens only.

Proposed plan is part of 'Validation Bill,' which would allow Israel to expropriate private Palestinian lands in the West Bank for purposes of settlement construction.

JNF, which openly discriminates against non-Jews and sees itself as serving only one population, is decisive partner in government body charged with managing public land resources.

We urge the Israeli government to refrain from impeding the activities of humanitarian aid organizations, and to avoid vilifying the vital work of the aid community.

Expansion of Harish, which is currently way below its current housing capacity, would block development of surrounding Arab communities for years to come.

Prison Service promised five years ago to deal with issue, but subsequent renovations have skipped over cells of Palestinian prisoners in Gilboa prison.

Israeli Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs has no authority to condition budget transfers on changes in educational content.

Israeli Border Police officers shot Mustafa Khatib in back multiple times as he fled scene, in apparent violation of police open-fire regulations.

Officer shot and killed Ahmed Abu Shaaban in Jerusalem on 15 October 2015 after he was lying on the ground, neutralized, and no longer posed threat.

Bilal Kayed, a Palestinian from Nablus who is being detained by Israel, has reached 42 days of hunger strike, and resolves to continue his protest until he is freed.

Mohammad Abu Khalaf was lying on his stomach when police shot him multiple times; 'Police Investigative Division essentially gives green light to police violence'

Since October 2015, Israel has refused to return bodies of 13 Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers, police, and settlers during what human rights groups have identified as extrajudicial killings.

Regulations place heavy financial burden on Palestinians seeking to file lawsuits against Israeli employers for labor law violations.

Bill violates international laws that forbid an occupying power from transferring its civilian population into occupied territories.