Press Releases

Ahmad has been held in solitary confinement for over a year. Adalah: The Israeli judiciary systematically uses secret evidence to justify decisions that violate the human rights of Palestinians in...

On 13 November 2022, the Be’er Sheva District Court held a hearing concerning the request of the Israel Prison Service (IPS) and the State Attorney’s Office to extend the solitary...

Adalah and the Arab Center for Alternative Planning, on behalf of all of the Arab municipalities in Wadi Ara, petitioned the Court against the discriminatory Israeli NPA policy which excludes Arab...

Ahmad Manasra, a Palestinian youth who suffers from serious mental health problems, has been held in solitary confinement for almost a year. According to a medical professional, Manasra’s...

Israel and US advance plan for US Embassy in Israel on land illegally confiscated by Israel from Palestinians – several of whom are now US citizens. Groups say that under plan, US bears...

Joint Statement of Support by Palestinian NGOs in Israel

Today (20 October, 2022) The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel (COI-OPTI), issued its first report to...

Israeli troops have sealed off 130,000 Palestinians in five residential areas, imposing sweeping collective punishment including power cuts, spraying of foul-smelling ‘skunk’ water, and firing...

Israeli Supreme Court accepts Adalah's appeal against Israel's Central Elections Committee ban on National Democratic Assembly (Balad/Tajammu’) from running in 1 November election; justices vote...

Israel arrested then-13-year-old Ahmad Manasra in 2015; Manasra was abused during and after arrest; accused of attempted murder and initially sentenced to 12 years, he has been held in solitary...

Adalah: Over two decades later, Israel still grants sweeping impunity to its police and military forces, as well as for Israeli Jewish civilian vigilantes when Palestinians are killed or wounded

One of the complainants was hospitalized in intensive care with severe wounds. Adalah filed a complaint to Police Investigation Department in September 2021, but PID closed the investigation.

Two special needs children are forced to travel up to 14 kilometers in order to reach special education schools outside their village. Due to lack of transportation, their father has been forced to...

Right-wing Israeli groups seek to disqualify two Arab parties – The National Democratic Assembly (Balad/Tajammu') and the United Arab List (Ra'am) – from running in the upcoming parliamentary...

Israeli police had issued permit for the protest, then reneged, arresting five protesters and demolishing their tent; Rahat residents are protesting discriminatory policies of Israel’s Bedouin...

Israel will hold parliamentary (Knesset) elections on 1 November 2022. The elections will determine the composition of the 25th Knesset, which has 120 seats, as well as the prime minister. The 2022...

On 17 August 2022, the Israeli Military Commander in the West Bank rejected an objection filed by five leading Palestinian human rights and civil society organizations against the declaration of...

With the opening of the academic year - allegedly due to organizational conflict over the identity of the school's principal - the newly-inaugurated school was closed and its students remained home...

Israel had been holding the boat at Ashdod Port since seizing it off Gaza’s coast in February, directly harming the livelihoods and food security of seven Palestinian families in Gaza; court...

Israeli state authorities have issued eviction orders and displacement lawsuits targeting 78 residents of Al-Bqeaa in Naqab (Negev).