 Supreme Court Bans Israeli Military from Using Palestinians as Human Shields, Accepting Petition Filed by Adalah on Behalf of Israeli and Palestinian Human Rights Orgs |
 |
 Adalah to District Court: Haifa University Discriminates against Arab Students in Allocating Students’ Accommodation Using Military Service Criterion |
|
|
|
|
|
Articles |
|
|
|
Bilin: A Test Case for Immunity - The Culture of Violence and Deception among the Israeli “Security Forces” |
|
Gaby Lasky, Advocate, Legal Advisor to the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) |
|
|
|
Ideological Legislation in the Name of "Security" |
|
Abeer Baker, Advocate, Adalah |
|
|
|
Education Rights |
|
Haifa District Court Orders Regional Council to Resume Transportation for 150 Arab Bedouin Students from Villages in the North to their Schools |
|
|
|
Land, Planning and Justice |
|
Following Adalah’s Petition to Supreme Court: Military Service Criterion for Leasing Land in Arab Bedouin Towns in the Naqab is Cancelled |
|
|
|
Adalah and the Coalition for the Advancement of Planning in Halisa Submit Recommendations to Haifa Municipal Council for Neighborhood’s Future Development |
|
|
|
Criminal Justice |
|
Adalah Demands Annulment of Discriminatory Bill Imposing Harsher Investigation, Interrogation and Detention Procedures on Palestinian Detainees |
|
|
|
Adalah to Director of Courts Administration: Holding Hearings in Shata Prison Infringes Principles of Openness of Hearings and Separation of Powers |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Adalah’s Newsletter is a monthly publication issued in Arabic, Hebrew and English. It highlights Adalah’s main activities, provides analysis of human rights issues, and links to new reports. Suggestions, articles and commentaries from our readers are welcome. View previous volumes |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Opening Remarks |
|
The Supreme Court (SCt) ruled that the order allowing the Israeli army to use Palestinian civilians as human shields is illegal, violating international humanitarian law. During the SCt hearings, we submitted much unchallenged evidence proving that this order resulted in Nidal Abu Mohsen’s killing and seriously endangered the lives of many Palestinians. What, then, is the legal responsibility of those who executed this illegal order? Despite the SCt’s decision, the law enforcement authorities’ policy toward the soldiers and their commanders in the OPTs is to grant them impunity. Similarly, despite the SCt’s ruling prohibiting torture, no GSS agents who killed or caused physical or psychological injury were indicted. The sole legal remedy open to Palestinians was tort lawsuits for compensation. However, this remedy was also recently closed by a new amendment to the Civil Wrongs Law. The policy of impunity also explains the rationale behind Mahash’s report, which contradicts the Or Commission’s conclusions. |
|
|
|
Commentaries |
|
|
|
|
|
Fellowships |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dr. Marwan Dwairy, Adalah Chairman: “October 2000: Defined Goals and New Mechanisms.”
The Oak Human Rights Fellowship 
Donate to Adalah. Thank you in advance. 
