Al Aqsa or Second Intifada

Palestinian victims of the Israeli army have filed tort lawsuits against the State of Israel to demand compensation for damages they sustained. The right to compensation is a constitutional right...

Law and violence are often understood to be opposites. The rule of law is conceived of as constituting an orderly alternative to violence. In abandoning this dichotomous depiction of law and...

In June 2004, Adalah, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights – Gaza (PCHR) and Al-Haq submitted a motion for an order of injunction to the Supreme Court to prevent the Israeli military...

Soon after the petition was filed, the Attorney General's office announced that the Israeli army would issue an order banning the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields, and would clarify...

In the submission, the petitioners presented four new cases documented by B'Tselem which detail the continued use of Palestinian civilians as human shields, despite an injunction issued by the...

Last night, 7 May 2002, the Attorney General's Office submitted a response to a request for an immediate injunction, filed to the Supreme Court by seven human rights organizations, to stop the...

Artas Village, 29 January 2002: The Israeli army entered the village between 1:00 and 2:00 a.m. Israeli soldiers took Ahmad al-Yas 'Aysh, 37, and his brother Hamdi from their house and held them...

Today, Adalah Staff Attorney Marwan Dalal sent a pre-petition to the Attorney General's office demanding that the office compel the Israeli army to stop using Palestinian civilians as human shields...

The Israeli Supreme Court today ordered that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) be allowed to accompany and assist the Israeli army in locating the bodies of Palestinian fighters...

Tomorrow, Sunday, 14 April 2002, the Israeli Supreme Court will hear petitions calling for the cessation of the burial of bodies of Palestinian fighters and civilians in mass graves in the Jenin...

This afternoon, Adalah and LAW - The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment filed a motion for an injunction and petition to the Israeli Supreme Court seeking to...

Today, LAW - The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), and Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court...

the Israeli Supreme Court dismissed an urgent petition filed yesterday by Adalah and LAW-The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment against the Chief Commander...

On 8 April 2002, the Israeli Supreme Court dismissed a petition challenging the Israeli army's prevention of access to medical treatment for the sick and wounded in Jenin and Nablus; restriction of...

Tomorrow, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 at 11:30 am, the Israeli Supreme Court will hear the petition of Adalah and LAW-The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment...

On 7 April 2002, Adalah filed a petition before the Supreme Court protesting the denial of medical treatment to the scores of sick and wounded in Jenin and Nablus, the denial of access to...

Adalah Staff Attorney Gadeer Nicola and Development Director Rina Rosenberg assisted in organizing and attended a meeting of Palestinian and Israeli NGOs based in Israel with the UN HCHR, Ms. Mary...