Torture and cruel‚ inhumane‚ and degrading treatment

Human rights organizations call on Israel to use the 25th anniversary of the UN Convention Against Torture to fully renounce torture and ill treatment, and to commit to ending impunity that has...

The Criminal Procedures (Detainees Suspected of Security Offenses) Law, originally legislated as a temporary order valid for just 18 month has been extended for nine years (from 2006 and until its...

On 20 June 2013, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) issued its Concluding Observations on Israel, following its latest review on 3 June 2013. The Committee raised serious concerns...

Briefing for the UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories. Statistics on Palestinian...

The Israeli navy frequently shoots live fire at fishing boats in the permitted fishing area (three nautical miles) on the shores of Gaza and forces fishermen to strip naked at gunpoint, jump into...

HCJ 9416/10 Adalah v. Ministry of Public Security

The law allows for the arrest of suspects for long periods without any judicial oversight, for deliberations to take place in their absence, and for the decision to extend their detention to be...

Yesterday, 12 May 2004, Adalah sent a letter to the Attorney General demanding that he issue an order requiring the General Security Services (GSS) to record all interrogations of suspects,...

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...

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...

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...

On 29 April 2002, Adalah submitted a pre-petition to the office of the Attorney General demanding that he address the inhumane conditions of Ansar III Detention Center ("Ketziot"). The conditions...