Occupied Palestinian Territories

Who will promote democracy and human rights in Annapolis?

On 25 October 2007, Adalah sent an urgent letter to the Deputy State Attorney, Shai Nitzan and the Military Advocate General Avihai Mandelblit demanding that they make public the measures and...

The Israeli Supreme Court’s ruling delivered in December 2006 on Israel’s policy of assassinations in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967 has a strange outcome. Former Chief Justice of...

Tala, a 3rd year English student at Birzeit University in the West Bank, recently wrote an essay about the experience of studying and learning under a military occupation which directs attacks...

On 9 July 2004, one year ago, legal history was made as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its Advisory Opinion on the legal consequences of the construction of the Wall in the...

What happened in Far'on and Masha is a clear violation of international law. In particular, it constituted the crime of property destruction.

28 April 2004, Adalah submitted a motion requesting the immediate issuance of an injunction and an urgent hearing in the “human shields” case, pending before the Court since May 2002.

27 April 2003, Adalah submitted new three testimonies to the Supreme Court of Israel of Palestinian civilians being used as human shields and as hostages by the Israeli army in the 1967 Occupied...

At a hearing held on 21 January 2003, the Supreme Court limited an injunction currently in place, which prohibits the Israeli army from using Palestinian civilians in the 1967 Occupied Territories...

The motion is based on a report released by B'Tselem on 14 November 2002, entitled "Human Shield: Use of Palestinian Civilians as Human Shields in Violation of High Court Order." In its report,...

Today, Supreme Court Justice Strassberg-Cohen granted a temporary injunction preventing the Israeli army from using Palestinian civilians as human shields and/or hostages through the army's...

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...

Today, Adalah and LAW requested that the Supreme Court of Israel establish procedures to be followed by the Israeli Army, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Palestine Red...

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...

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...