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Call for Urgent Action Palestinian Administrative Detainee on Hunger Strike in Critical Condition The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council, the Arab Association for Human Rights, Adalah...

On 11 August 2015, Adalah sent an urgent letter to Dr. Hazi Levi, the director of Barzilai Hospital located in Ashkelon, and the Attorney General demanding that the hospital refrain from...

Committee must ensure the Arab minority’s visibility in various aspects of public life, and their substantial representation in order to facilitate a decision-making process that relies on all...

Gopstein’s statements constitute clear evidence of engagement in racial incitement, part of extremely hostile attacks against Arabs that are undertaken with almost total impunity.

Adalah: The municipality’s actions disregard the existence and status of tens of thousands of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel living in Beer el-Sabe and the surrounding area

Speakers urged US lawmakers to raise serious concerns about lack of accountability for human rights violations & war crimes by Israeli military in Gaza.

Adalah and Al Mezan: "With this new law, Israel sanctions torture and ill-treatment." Force-feeding resulted in the death of 3 prisoners on hunger strike in past decades.

Even if canceled in the future, it would be no remedy for those prisoners languishing in prison for years and decades because of false confessions extracted from them by force.

Adalah: "Bentzi Sau, who served as the commander of the Wadi Ara region during the October 2000 events, is a criminal whose only place is in prison, behind bars. The promotion of Sau is an...

How does Israel commemorate the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (26 June)? With this new bill, it gives a green light for torture

The human rights organizations demand the end of the use of administrative detention, to withdraw the proposed Forced-Feeding Bill and the audio/video exemption bill, and to respect for the basic...

Adalah regards Sheikh Khatib’s violently homophobic statements as extremely dangerous and in violation, firstly, of the right of an entire group to dignity. His speech harms the rights of gay...

Minister's illegal decision affects rights of entire Palestinian society in Israel, who have a different and unique narrative, history and culture from the Jewish majority.

Al Mezan & Adalah: "Israeli investigation system is fundamentally flawed. The army cannot investigate itself."

Participants visited Susiya in the South Hebron Hills, and then Atir, Umm al-Hiran and Khashem Zaneh in the Naqab.

State funding covers 90% of budgets of Jewish religious schools, but up to maximum of just 75% of budgets of Arab church schools in Israel

Bennett's decision was made in the context of his attempt to silence views deemed "inappropriate" by the majority.

Adalah: "The 5 May 2015 Supreme Court decision sets a dangerous historical precedent."

In 2014, 75% of 3-4 year old Bedouin children in Israel did not have any educational framework; this figure did not exceed 5% for Israeli Jewish children at that age.

State Attorney's Office responds to Adalah: It is difficult to understand Lieberman's statement - "as to those who are against us…we must raise the ax and cut off his head" - as a call to violence!