coronavirus

Adalah’s Supreme Court petition calls for urgent action in northern Israeli facility housing 450 ‘security prisoners’; Gilboa prisoners unable to maintain required distance of two meters from...

Adalah-Joint List petition contends Israeli government decrees violate Israeli constitutional law; expanded panel of five justices slated to hear case tomorrow (Thursday) at 11:30 AM.

For first time, court recognizes restrictions on Shin Bet’s powers but grants lengthy period for legislation during which spy agency can act widely without oversight.

Israel’s emergency regulations allowed employers to dismiss pregnant women; following Supreme Court hearing on Adalah’s petition, MK Aida Touma-Sliman: We will fix what Israel’s regulations...

Israeli gov’t cancelled emergency regulations after Adalah, MK Aida Touma-Sliman went to Supreme Court, but thousands of women lost jobs during 11 days when regulations were in effect.

As we mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day this year, Palestinian prisoners and detainees face the additional threat of a coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Israeli prisons and detention centers.

Israeli health authorities’ failures had put the lives of 150,000 residents of overcrowded and densely-populated Kufr Aqab and Shuafat refugee camp at grave risk; Adalah: These new measures are...

Israel’s failure to allocate resources for coronavirus testing and emergency medical services in unrecognized Bedouin villages poses danger to tens of thousands of people in Naqab (Negev) desert...

In the face of potential COVID-19 outbreak in the Gaza Strip, Israel is obliged to take measures to save lives, permitting the entry of medical equipment and supplies, to meet patients’ needs.

Adalah and the Joint List charge that approval of emergency regulations exceeds government's authority as defined in The Basic Law: Government, especially as the Knesset began its activities.

More than 50,000 Palestinian Bedouin children in Naqab (Negev) villages are not connected to electricity or internet, most don’t have computers. Since school was stopped on 15 March due to...

Amended petition filed against PM Netanyahu, Shin Bet security service, police, and Health Ministry demands revocation of gov’t resolution which allows Shin Bet to gather private information on...

Individual was held in transit wing of Ofer prison, meaning potential exists for spread of virus to other Israeli prisons and detention centers.

Organizations call for proactive and public involvement by Israeli health authorities in formulating and publishing a strategy to delay COVID-19 outbreak in prisons while protecting basic rights.

Emergency regulations, imposed by the Israeli government without any legal authority, overwhelming and disproportionately violate prisoners’ human rights.

Magen David Adom paramedics charged with conducting coronavirus tests, but Bedouin citizens of Israel residing in unrecognized villages in Naqab (Negev) lack access to MDA emergency medical services.

Adalah: Even parliamentary oversight cannot legitimize such a serious violation of human rights. Public health emergencies must not be exploited to grant additional powers to security services.

Netanyahu’s government approved regulations that will allow Israeli security agents to track the cellphones of coronavirus patients or people suspected of being infected.

Palestinian citizens of Israel constitute approximately 20 percent of total population; Adalah sends urgent letter to Health Ministry on behalf of MK Sami Abu Shehadeh demanding immediate...